CHEMSET® COLD ENAMELLING / DOMING RESIN SYSTEMS

THE CHEMSET® COLD ENAMELLING/DOMING PRODUCTS are used to produce buttons, buckles, badges, costume jewellery, sports trophies, insignia and for the general enhancement of fancy goods, etc. They set to form a durable, robust enamel or lens. Compared with traditional vitreous enamels they are cold setting materials that do not need firing, are much cleaner to apply and have a built-in resilience, which is a vast improvement over the brittleness of vitreous enamel.

Being almost colourless, CHEMSET® Enamelling Systems have water-like clarity and naturally form clear lens-like domes. They can be coloured to give opaque or transparent coloured domes. Of course, we can supply the colours as well! They can also be used, for example, to infill engravings using special intense colours. If required, they can be ground flat and polished to a bright finish.

The CHEMSET® Enamelling Resin Range consists of a number of resin/ hardener compounds each designed to suit a particular type of application. These include:

• CHEMSET® ES 8102 - A clear, free-flowing liquid resin system for use in the majority of applications. Available in 25 kg and 5 kg cans.
• CHEMSET® ES 8203 – The hardener for use with CHEMSET® ES 8102 resin. Available in 25 kg, 5 kg and 2½ kg cans.
• CHEMSET® ES 8103 - A low viscosity resin system for use when enamelling large areas. Available in 25 kg and 5 kg cans.
• CHEMSET® ES 8110 – An extra bright superglaze system for use when applying a clear dome over predominantly white backgrounds. Available in 25 kg and 5 kg cans.
• CHEMSET® ES 8124 - A thixotropic resin system for enamelling onto curved surfaces. Available in 5 kg cans only.
• CHEMSET® ES 8204 – The hardener for use with CHEMSET ES 8103, ES 8110 and ES 8124 resins. Available in 25 kg, 5 kg and 2½ kg cans.
• CHEMSET® EP 4010 to EP 4026 - A range of 16 fully intermixable opaque epoxy colour pastes for colouring all except the superglaze resin. Colours include White, Black, Grey, Yellow (2 shades), Ochre, Red Oxide, Red, Green (2 shades), Blue (3 shades), Pink, Red-Violet and Brown. Available in 5 kg and 1 kg cans.
• CHEMSET® ES 8552 to ES 8561 - A range of 8 intermixable transparent coloured resins, which can be blended with CHEMSET® ES 8103 resin to produce different depths of colour. These resins are cured using CHEMSET® ES 8204 hardener. Colours include Yellow, Brown, Red, Green, Blue, Black, Orange and Violet. Available in 5 kg, 1 kg and 500 g cans.
• CHEMSET® ES 8105 - A ‘hard’ resin especially suitable for linishing flat and polishing. Available in 25 kg and 5 kg cans.

All of the above are easy to use epoxy based products.

We also have a range of starter packs available to help beginners get started. These include:

• CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling Starter Pack I – for clear and colour work
• CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling Starter Pack II – for clear, colourless work
• CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling Starter Pack III – for colour work using thixotropic resin
• CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling Starter Pack IV – colour paste kit
• CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling Starter Pack V – transparent colour sample kit
• CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling Starter Pack VI – opaque colour sample kit

CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling starter pack I	CHEMSET® Epoxy Enamelling starter pack VI

Apart from excellent materials we can also supply a full range of ancillary products to industrial concerns wishing to set up in production for this process. For details of equipment and other ancillary products please refer to our other divisions as appropriate. Everything you need can be supplied. We have specialised in this business for over 30 years.

TUITION / TRAINING for doming and cold enamelling applications.

Our technical service/salesperson can visit you to give a live demonstration of using the materials with or without equipment, which, in either case, can be shown and demonstrated to you. They can also give guidance on the construction of base pieces, different effects, etc.

We are willing to enamel a small quantity of pieces for you to prove their suitability or otherwise and provide quality samples. Also, we will, on request, provide you with a limited quantity of pre-weighed sample material for you to try out. All of the above are free-of-charge to bona-fide customers.

Going on from there we can provide the services of a professional jewellery designer/enameller, who has been using our products for 10 years and has been working with resins for 30 years, to provide training in-house for industrial users or by means of college courses at UCE in Birmingham, Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery in St Austell or Gloucestershire College in Cheltenham for individuals or at seminars at our UK based premises arranged according to demand. If you are interested in these seminars please register to receive details when they are to be arranged. These services are chargeable at moderate rates dependent on location, duration and number of persons involved. Further details on the courses at the Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery can be viewed at www.mcsj.co.uk .

SMALL ORDER / MAIL ORDER ENAMELLING SUPPLIES

For the convenience of our many small volume customers we have set up an agent to supply less than standard size quantities of enamelling resins, hardeners and colours. This will include:
500g cans of the Resins
250g cans of the Hardeners
30g jars of the Colour Pastes
30g jars of the Special Effects Sparkle Resins
15g bottles of the Transparent Coloured Resins

These can be purchased directly from Clare John via www.cjresins.co.uk