RitzyToo’s ‘Get to Know Your Suppliers’ Series:
An Introduction and Interview With Carl
Becker, VP of ETI
How to Create Beautiful Jewelry With Resin Finishes
Made with EnviroTex.
Made with EasyCast.
EnviroTex, a name synonymous
with ‘original high gloss finish’ has
developed into the industry standard for quality and reliability since
1969. Over the years, ETI, has
found a loyal and growing market
for a separate line of products designed for the hobbyist.
We were fortunate to get the VP of
ETI to spend some interview time
with us so that RitzyToo readers/
hobbyists can discover another
great resource for their maker passion, handcrafted jewelry and related projects.
To facilitate our shoppers’
overview of your extensive
craft and jewelry making products, please list from 4 to 6 of
the most popular jewelry making project types and the specific ETI products needed.
1. EnviroTex Lite pour-on High
Gloss Finish (epoxy) – used to coat
jewelry pieces where a deep, durable, and high gloss finish.
2. EnviroTex Jewelry Resin – crystal clear, UV resistant, professional
jeweler’s grade, high doming epoxy, used to coat jewelry pieces.
3. EasyCast – clear casting epoxy used to cast jewelry pieces in
molds.
4. EnviroTex Jewelry Clay – creamy
smooth porcelain like epoxy clay
product used as an adhesive in bezels to attach stones, crystals, etc.,
or to create one of a kind jewelry
piece designs.
5. EasyMold Silicone Putty – a fun,
fast, and easy product for making
jewelry molds with great detail. No
mold release required.
6. Castin’ Craft Opaque Pigment
and Transparent Dyes – can be
used to add to our EnviroTex Lite,
Easy Cast, and EnviroTex Jewelry
Clay products.
7. EasyCast Resin Jewelry Molds – a
total of 18 popular jewelry shapes
formed on two convenient trays.
Molds made of durable, smooth
self-releasing
polypropylene.
Can you provide relevant videos, where possible, to illustrate for the viewers an idea
how easy it can be to create
jewelry using ETI products.
Yes, I would be happy to. Here are
the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L3rirpTdaY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whnsO3dsHOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c22EQ-ARn8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImhgPu1b-3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazbJay2VgY
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Made with Jewelry Clay.
Where can our hobbyists find
additional project patterns/tutorials that would be suitable
for use with the ETI product
supplies?
Resin Crafts Blog
http://resincrafts.blogspot.ca
Please describe ETI’s customer
service for our hobbyists.
We offer live tech support weekdays during regular business hours.
Please take a moment and introduce RitzyToo readers to
some of your other products
that might be of interest.
Castin’ Craft Clear Polyester Casting Resin – optically the clearest of
all resins. Used by professionals to
create faux gems, stones, etc.
Castin Craft Resin Spray – a fast
drying clear finish/sealer. Ideal
for fixing small blemishes on cured
resin pieces.
Thank you Carl for taking the time
for this interview and for providing the information on ETI and its
products that I am sure will be of
considerable interest to the RitzyToo hobbyist, especially just before
the holidays this year!