Resin Jewelry Making Forum

Has anyone ever tried putting Easy Cast resin in the oven on "warm" to speed up the curing process?  I thought I read somewhere a long time ago that you could do this as long as it wasn't too long and as long as the temp isn't too hot.  I'm trying it tonight, I can let you know how it goes.  Just wondering if anyone has tried this??

Karen, I have never tried putting resin in an oven.  I used to have a dedicated toaster oven in my jewelry studio for miscellaneous projects, but since it finally quit working, I just haven't replaced it.  I would certainly say that I wouldn't do resin in an oven that you also wanted to cook food in.

One little experiment that I have done though is to take a heat gun to the Easy Cast resin and found that when I blasted it with heat, it completely cured in two minutes.  The problem was that the resin cured a bit cloudy, party because of bubbles, partly because it now had this white-ish haze.

I would love to know how your experiment turned out!

Thanks, Katharine, for your post! 

I recently purchased a toaster oven for use with my polymer clay projects, so I tried it out.  I used it on the lowest setting (150 degrees F) and kept it in there for about a half hour.  Then I let it cool for a bit, went back to it a little later, and compared the one that was in the oven to the one that was not.  What a huge difference!  The pieces that were in the oven were completely cured and hard to the touch (no fingerprints)!  Keep in mind that this all happened within a 4(ish)-hour time span.  That's a pretty huge difference!  I would like to try it again today if I have the chance to work on my resin pieces.  I need to put a back coating on several pendants but I'm not sure how it will work the 2nd time around.  I don't want the front (bottom) layer to melt and have the backing layer fall forward (if that makes sense).  So I need to think through that a little more.  But the first time around, having it cure quickly was a success!

Ugh.  So today I used a deep flex mold in the toaster oven and it melted.  I set it on the "warm" setting at 150 degrees F instead of the bake setting.  So needless to say, I am very frustrated and confused right now, as when I did it before it worked out really well.  Just wanted to give a warning to watch the molds as apparently there aren't all heat resistant like I read.