Learning from our mistakes
Ok so things didn’t go exactly as planned with the Headcast. I don’t really know what to say about it.
It was hard for me being under the Alginate and plaster and not being able to help. My wife and our friend Will both did a great job of helping me, they did everything that they were supposed to but ultimately it isn’t something that they have done before (not that I have either) and this isn’t what they want to do - not like I do. I wish that there was someone else here locally that had some experience doing it.
My friend Scott lives too far away and he is the only person I know who has done it before. We are discussing doing it again but we will have to see.
I guess I should talk about the headcast itself… there are parts of it that aren’t too bad but the there are
parts that are quite frankly horrendous. It looks like a deformed bald gimp version of me. Malformed. The jacket mother mold leaked like a sieve and in an effort to stop the leaks I pushed clay along the seem and ended up somehow pushing in one of the ears, I didn’t have any superglue so I couldn’t secure the Alginate to the jacket and it ended up slipping here and there, the Ultracal didn’t mix right at (user error?) and went from water to solid while I was patching leaks. sigh. In short about everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
My head is killing me and I need to get to sleep. I am going to go and brush my teeth in a minute but it wont wash the bitter taste of defeat out.