rsaldivar wrote:I believe that small tex in resin casting is very hard to cast no matter the resin , its just the nature of casting , wax works better ( mold ) or engraving after cast , small tex like on a shank thats 2 or 2.5 mm is a problem many users on all forum always asking for help , and not only on shanks but on disk plates , pendants or rings , grad rings are usually larger and have larger tex , that always helps , but even then is still hard , not to say it isn't possible to cast , but just to say TEX is a difficult thing to do with many variables , however , lets see who the Blue does ??
The resin can be secondary cause if an improper cure of the model degrades the investment during investment gloss off and setting.
I think the biggest issue is the fact that more often than not, the text is right in the path of the metal as it rushes into the negative and erodes the edges or breaks off the cured investment damaging the fine detail and creating an imperfection somewhere on the surface or the interior of the piece. That is why they suggest keeping it as shallow as possible and not having hard edges on the text that protrudes into the negative space.
