Resin boxes can be used anywhere in your home. They can serve as decorations, jewelry boxes, or, using the Fluid resin suitable for contact with food, as candy boxes. You can enhance them with lots of glitter and colors, or go for a minimalist design. How your boxes look and function is up to you; we’ll guide you on how to make them.
What you will need for making
Silicone mold for the box
Resin
Color or metallic powder for resin
Decorative materials
Consumables
Scale
Production process
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Prepare your mold on a flat, covered surface and use adhesive tape to remove any dust and dirt. Level the surface ideally with a spirit level. If the surface is not perfectly flat, the resin will run to one side.
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Mix the required amount of resin and hardener according to the size of your mold. For a small box with a lid, you generally need about 50 grams of mixed resin. For boxes, we most commonly use 5-five or Start 2.0 resin.
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Always mix the resin according to the mixing ratio specified on the packaging, and weigh both components on a digital scale with gram precision. Remember to protect your skin, eyes, and respiratory system from contact with the resin or its fumes during the process. Mix both components thoroughly from the bottom and scrape them from the sides of the cup (about 3-4 minutes), then pour the mixed resin into a new cup and repeat the mixing. This eliminates poorly mixed spots that may not cure properly.
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Divide the resin into several cups according to your needs and color it, or add glitter. Work quickly – the resin in the cup is at a higher column than the recommended maximum pouring height, so it works faster and may cure quickly in the cup.
Add and mix colors gradually until you achieve the desired shade. A large amount of color could negatively affect the resin's properties; the maximum recommended amount of color in mixed resin is about 2%. -
Pour the mixed and colored resin into the mold. There are many application possibilities depending on your imagination. For example, you can leave part of the resin uncolored and color part of it, mixing in glitter. Pour both colored and uncolored resin from both sides of the mold. The colors do not completely blend and create an interesting effect. You can place decorations or dried flowers in the clear part.
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After pouring into the mold, remove surface bubbles using a lighter. Never hold the flame over the resin for too long; just pass it over the bubbles. If you hold the flame too long on the surface of the mold, the resin could burn onto the mold, damaging both the mold and the product.
Remove bubbles from the bottom of the mold, for example, with a toothpick. Also, be careful in the corners of the molds where bubbles may get trapped. -
Cover the product so that dust does not fall into it and let it cure. You can cover the mold with a plastic box, or place cups around the mold and put a cardboard on top.
VIDEO: Guide to resin box
VIDEO: Guide to resin box
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