Happy Accidents

One of the things that's great about learning something yourself is that you sometimes have what Bob Ross called "happy accidents".  You also sometimes have not-so-happy accidents.  In the case of the tapper heads, I had the happy kind.  I had used an old trick to measure how much resin to mix...I poured water into the mold and filled it...then poured out the water into a container.  The amount of water in the container represented the exact amount of resin to mix up for the cast.

What I didn't do right was wait for any remaining water in the rubber mold to fully dry.  I mixed up my batch of resin in excitement and poured it in...the resulting cast was not what I planned.  It came out with some pitting and looked kind of "eroded".  I wasn't happy.  The next cast turned out great, so it was a learning lesson....but I kept looking at the bad cast yesterday.  It looked like the thing was rusted....

As many of you know I like rust.  I like the look.  So I painted up the cast with a rust finish just to see how it looked.  Is it right for the client? I doubt it..although I like the concept that it looks like it was dug up from the old Brewery...but I turned an accident into a trick I can use down the road if I want something to not only look rusty...but to look eroded!

Happy Accidents..... let's share a little music about the subject.