Woodturning | The Cherry Sunburst Bowl!

Hello, friends! Come check out our brand new shop launch! _____________________________________ Sadly, this one didn’t come out as perfectly as I’d hoped, but it was a fun one nonetheless! For this project, I cut and sanded eight pieces of cherry into... I’m not sure what kind of shape you’d call these, but “sun beams.“ I then cut out 8 additional triangles and sanded them thin to act as beams of light shining inwards. I then hot glued them all down to a mold and cast them in a dark purple epoxy resin, which is where the problem arose. Because I wanted the swirls in the resin to stay in the final cast, I used a resin that cures relatively quick (about 45-60 minutes of open time), and although my garage was quite cold when I did the pour, the volume of resin I used was way too much for this sort of product. It wound up flash curing, and the result was that the resin cracked in about 5 places deep within the casting, which wer