Oh boy, perfect timing for another blasting thread!
Ronny, nice job on these, especially for your first attempts. I like them both. I like a variaty of blasts. The old craggy Dunhils are great, but I also like the finer more even blasts with more detail and in either I always like seeing lots of ring grain. I think my facvorites are JT Cook's, but seen some beauts from Rad and few others from here too.
I finally found a blaster on campus, and it's less than 50 yards from my shop! It's a nice free standing Cyclone unit with a beefy compressor and loaded with what appears to be very fine white AO media (might be the stuff they use for facials or something?). This is in the metal smithing shop where they make jewlrey, and the proff says I can use it at will
I blasted my first the other day. Great fun, and it turned out ok, but not great. I got carried away on one area thinking I could encourage a little more figure there. Nope, just distroyed my shape. This is a partial blast, and my masking did not work out as well as I had hoped. Need to perfect that. Also need to work out the staining and buffing afterwards. I wanted it dark and went with black leather dye. I wanted some highlights on the high spots, but lost almost all the dye on them, even with very light buffing. I just stained it again and it's drying under some heat. Any tips?
John, what are you using for dye, and how are you applying, buffing, etc.? I love the way your blasts are looking so far, and was shooting for something sort of like that on this one.