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Resin, Help! - leatherface74 - 04-16-2004
Can someone please help me out? I need to buy some resin for casting hockey masks. I looked on ebay but no luck. I don\'t want to us ABS plastic because it dosn\'t give the mask a "True Feeling," if you know what I mean.Does anyone know of a site, or something? It would really help me out!!
Thanks, bubba74
Resin, Help! - puckface - 04-16-2004
(thanks buddy)
Resin, Help! - mike - 04-16-2004
Quote:Can someone please help me out? I need to buy some resin for casting hockey masks. I looked on ebay but no luck. I don\'t want to us ABS plastic because it dosn\'t give the mask a "True Feeling," if you know what I mean.Does anyone know of a site, or something? It would really help me out!!what do u mean a real feeling?? the mask from the films were abs lol.. adn if your starting out i suggest u go to auto zone and buy the cheap resin, not good very breakable but it will work
Thanks, bubba74
Resin, Help! - leatherface74 - 04-16-2004
I mean, to me it just feels fake and not real.. I don\'t know maybe it\'s just me, but thats just my opinion.
But thanks for the info!
Resin, Help! - puckface - 04-16-2004
But then again, they werent really hockey masks though, we like the ones you make Mike, they have perfect thickness IMO.
Resin, Help! - travsall - 04-16-2004
The ones on screen were all (except JX and FvJ) around .070 ABS, VERY thin plastic. So ABS is the most screen sccurate way to go, and actually if you were going to use a mask for street hockey you\'d want an ABS much more over resin or fiberglass, MUCH stronger on the whole, fiberglass would shatter, and resin would crack. To me the only real true feel for a hockey mask comes with ABS.
Resin, Help! - Krypt Kreeper - 04-16-2004
Listin to Travis, I have a hockey made of resin, one made of fiberglass and 2 made of .090 ABS. The fiberglass mask would shatter if I dropped it on a hard surface, and the resin one has excessive thick spots which make it look kinda funny plus if if bent it back far enough it would break. The ABS hockeys I can drop and bend all the way back and not worry about them breaking, plus according to the guy at my local sports shop, most of the "real" sports equipment are now ABS or some type of high impact plastic.
Resin, Help! - Ft13voorhees - 04-22-2004
you can buy it at Home Depot but i use fiberglass resin for my mask and i know they would break if you droped it but im very carefull with my masks and make sure i dont drop em
Resin, Help! - SuperDanDrista - 04-22-2004
I know what he means..He wants them to feel like a REAL old hockey mask and the hockey masks from the 60s and 70s were often a really strong fiberglass
Resin, Help! - leatherface74 - 04-22-2004
Exactly! I just think resin is 10 times better than ABS. Also thanks Ft13voorhees, Ill have to go pick some up really soon.