Hi Dan-- I don't claim to have an answer to your question, because (evidently like most) I don't know anything about casting resin.
At least one 5-face cube-dial, or 4-face pillar dial is on my to-do list. I like them because they're readable at relatively long distance, from all directions, and useful at all times of day. Also, with a nodus for declination, or co-Italian or Babylonian hours, there'd nearly always be one of the faces on which the nodus's shadow is on the dial-face. A multi-face dial is the answer to the problem of a nudus-shadow not always being on the dial-face. Aside from that, cube-dials are attractive, decorative, and interesting. A declining cube-dial has the advantage that all of its faces have their French hours style intersecting the dial-face, thereby telling time whenever the face receives sunlight. Also, all of its dials can have the same kind of oblique triangular gnomon (not the kind whose style is parallel to the dial-face), making for better and more consistent appearance. A cube-dial with one of its face's normal (perpendicular line) facing horizontal and due-north, or such a dial rotated only about its east-west axis, has the advantage of being easily explained to people--a consideration that I value. I once bought a resin sundial. I liked its realistic weight, heat-capacity, and feel, which, to me, seemed to passably resemble stone. But it was one of those affordable commercial sundials, all of which are completely unacceptably inaccurate and carelessly made &/or designed. It ended up breaking. I don't remember how. Maybe that was avoidable and my fault. Maybe I dropped it or stepped on it. My pillar dial will (if i make it) will consist of a wooden box, to be mounted on the middle of a vertical post. It will have holes in its top and bottom, to fit the post, and will be hinged along one vertical edge to close onto the post, with the holes lined with some soft material to grip the post without damaging it, and a bolt-&-wingnut on the edge opposite the hinge, to tighten the box-closure onto the post. It will have dials on its 4 vertical sides. Michael Ossipoff On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Dan-George Uza <cerculdest...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm looking for advice on how to cast a sundial from epoxy resins, > specifically a cubical multiple sundial. Any ideas on how to go about > casting the faces? > > Thanks, > > Dan Uza > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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