Carbon fiber soup dish

This is my latest project I did for a man who asked me for..

I had to make a carbon fiber dish, only for soup.. (don't look at the surface or the shape of carbon fiber because it was a test and the carbon was not of quality!)

He told me that after he applied a coat of glossy transparent for food (not dangerous).

First I create molds, usually called split mold.

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And this is the result of complete molds

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To make this dish I thought about several possible methods, and in the end I decided to create the two separated halves and then merge them

(don't look at the warped shape of carbon, I had problem with this poor quality fabric I bought)

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This is the result! I made them with vacuum infusion process and before I applied a thin layer of epoxy gelcoat

I used carbon fiber 160gr, fiberglass 400 gr biax and fiberglass 200gr plain (for the budget of customer).

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Excess trimmed away (remember not to look at the shape of carbon ahah)

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And then I used epoxy resin mixed with fiberglass microspheres only along the outer edge, but I had a problem because I cut mold edges and I couldn't find the original joint, so they moved a little aside.

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Hope you like my little project, next time I'll do it better because this was only a test Smile

If you have tips or suggestions please comment Smile

bye!