.BADLY NEEDED. . . .a Resin board!
Resin is definitely hot right now (and has been for awhile) and lots of Craftsters are doing it and wanting to try it! However, those who want to try it, as well as those who just need more info on why something-or-other isn't working well for them, will find it almost impossible to get that information from Craftster at this point.
Currently, there is
one humongously-long thread (
The Random Resin Thread in Jewelry & Trinkets, which has actually been made into a stickie):
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=10667.msg82992#msg82992 (post #1)
That never-ending thread is approx.
120 pages long (and growing daily).
That's just about the only place at Craftster where info, trouble-shooting, etc, is available for resin, although there are often individual threads for finished resin projects in the
Completed Projects board (of Jewelry & Trinkets). Those threads may also contain some helpful info but they soon sink to the bottom of the list so they're not findable or easily remembered (especially to newbies).
The never-ending thread is really impossible to read through too due to it's length, so most readers who are interested tend to give up pretty quickly (and there's no way to "search" in only one thread, as far as I can tell).
As for
where to put a resin board if we can get one, it would be best for it to have its own main board because resin can be used in
so many different ways. Resin
is often used for jewelry in a couple of fun ways but I'm sure Craftsters would be interested in doing some of the other things resin can be used for too if they just knew about them.
If not given its own category, I suppose Resin could be a child board under Jewelry & Trinkets or someplace else findable from the main-page of boards... then we can hope that some of the other uses will be posted there too.
Also, I would also love to see the fact that there are actually
two different types of resin that are commonly used by crafters made obvious in the name of the board since the two have to be used differently in some ways that
really matter to success. In my experience, not many crafters (even those who are already successfully using "resin") really understand that they're using only one type, and that different rules can exist for the other type.
So IMO, the ideal name for a "resin" board would be:
RESINS (polyester & epoxy resins) ...or just RESINS (polyester & epoxy)
my 2 cents,
Diane B.
