[Rae]

Hello! I’m looking to make resin ashtrays or get clear glass ones and put designs on the bottoms of them and seal with resin…. If I were to make them totally out of resin would they be heat resistant enough to hold up to someone putting a cigarette out in them? If not, what could I cure them with to make them more resistant… And which resin would be best for a project like this?

Thanks in advance!

[Katherine Swift]

Hi Rae,

I haven’t tested anything like this. If I wanted to try, I would use a polyester or polyurethane resin. They do well with the heat and friction of power tools, but I don’t know about cigarette butts.

[Rhonda J Hunter]

My husband was a smoker, and he used our resin coasters for ashtrays. The ones that didn’t melt had large brown/black burn marks.

[Andreas Henry mack]

I will try the same…I think about a small glas plate as bottom in the resin ashtray????

[Molly]

Hello! I’ve recently started to make resin art, the resin i use is from Epodex and i find its really good. I’ve started to make coasters and was wondering if once cured would hot drinks being put onto the coasters damage them at all?

Thanks in advance 🙂

[Katherine Swift]

Hi Molly, probably so. Unfortunately, resins aren’t designed to take the heat of a super hot mug.

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