Try not to touch front of piece, or lean against anything. Always clean with a microfiber cloth. I use a damp one first lightly and use a dry one to finish up.

Thats always my big dilemma! Resin doesn’t like to be cold. Sometimes bubbles will get trapped in the resin and there is nothing you can do about it once it cures. So I work in a room about 75 degrees and torch the bubbles out. Sometimes there are some still in my pieces but thats part of the process.

I usually have to wait at least 30 days for the piece to cure before I sell it, to make sure it doesn’t get any dings in it from hitting something or leaning against something.

Mica is a shiny mineral that’s mined from the earth. If you’ve ever found a sparkly rock, there’s a good chance that it contains mica, especially if it can be peeled apart in thin sheets. This mica is ground into tiny flakes and colored to make sparkly powder. Originally all mica came from the ground, but nowadays there is also synthetic mica that is made from ultra-thin sheets of lab-created glass-like mineral. Even though mica powder is pearlescent, it is not made from crushed pearls or oyster shells. It is also not made from metal or plastic and should not be confused with glitter. Mica powder comes in a variety of flake sizes and the larger the particle size, the more sparkly it is. Very large flakes of mica can very much appear like glitter but are irregular in shape, not punched out of a plastic sheet the way glitter is.