Resin Lens
1. You will need some resin, I use Gedeo Crystal Resin, it is crystal clear and doesn’t change colour in the oven. It takes 24 hours to dry properly.
2. I use droppers to measure the quantities of resin and hardner, this way you don’t have to waste a lot of product just make sure you clean them thoroughly after use. My resin requires 1 part hardner to 2 parts resin so I usually use 4 drops hardner to 8 drops resin and that gives me a lot to work with.
3. Hang your pin heads with the iris glued onto them upside down, I use blue tack to secure them to the arm of my desk lamp. Anything that will hang them upside down perfectly straight is good!
4. Apply your mixed resin using an old brush, just enough to make a globe at the end of the pin head. You don’t want too much of a globe or it will magnify the iris too much and distort it.
5. This is what they look like, if you have too much resin on the pin head just take it off again using the brush. Allow them to dry like this for at least 24 hours, preferably longer to make sure they are hard and smooth so its best to make a bunch of them a while before you will need to use them.
6. You can also make resin globes without a pin head by embedding the cured iris into a small white ball of clay, then curing it again and then adding the resin to this. It will automatically form the convex shape for a lens. These eyes are now ready to embed.
