Dog bones in resin tutorial
Dog bone and lights in a resin letter
Our step-by-step tutorial will talk you through how to make this simple but yet striking resin project.
Project difficulty: Medium
Project time: 2-4 days
Scroll to the bottom of the blog to watch the process video.
Choose your mould
First you want to choose a really sturdy silicone letter mould. There’s a huge number of options on the market but we’ve tried a few that just aren’t thick enough and start to loose their shape when you add your resin.
We use these ones from Amazon. They’re available on Prime so you don’t have to keep a full stock of letters and can buy the ones you need as orders come in.
TIP: If you find your mould isn’t quite holding up when you pour in your resin, you can pack around it with blocks of wood or sit in a dish of rice.
Choose your epoxy resin
There’s a massive range of epoxy resin on the market. You want to choose one that is not only cost effective but strong, easy to mix and isn’t likely to produce a huge amount of bubbles. Our recommendation is Apex Resin as it is easy to work with. You can get 15% off with the code at the bottom of this blog.
Their Deep Pour resin can be poured up to a massive 30cm deep in one go BUT – we do recommend at least 2 layers when creating a large letter though. The first pour will help anchor your lights and bones and the second, cover them and the lights.
Select your LED lights
Make sure you don’t buy lights that are too long as they won’t fit in your mould. You want to make sure there are enough lights to have an impact though. We buy these LED battery operated lights as they give a perfect warm glow and the cable is discrete when used in your resin. You could also consider using a wooden base with LED up light.
How it’s made
- Place your bones and lights in your mould.
(We bought our bones from a local supermarket).
TIP: Ensure you embed the plastic cover of your lights in the resin. This ensures you don’t have any of the weaker copper unprotected which could lead to the wire snapping. - Next make up your resin according to the instructions. Pour slowly over your lights and bones, filling your mould around half way.
- Let your resin cure around half its cure time (until it’s gel like) or more. Keep in mind that a deep pour resin can take up to 24 hours to reach this stage.
- Make sure that any lights or wires fit inside your mould and will not be sticking out after you’ve poured your final layer.
- Next, mix and pour your second layer.
- Allow your letter to fully cure.
TIP: We recommend waiting 10 minutes after each pour and going back to your letter with a heat gun specifically designed for crafting, like this one from amazon, and lightly heating the resin to remove any bubbles. Make sure you keep the heat moving to avoid overheating your resin or damaging your mould.
Finishing touches
Carefully demould your letter and lightly sand with fine sandpaper around the edges. Take care to not scratch other parts of your letter with the sandpaper. Providing you have used a good quality mould and resin, there shouldn’t be any need to sand and polish the full letter.
Joining your letters together
The letter P does not stand on its own so we used UV resin to join our two letters together.
Finally, ensure you test your light and don’t forget to photograph it!
Process video
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