Exclusive distributor now in Japan

For our customers in Japan, we are pleased to let you know that after several months of work, we have established an exclusive distributor for our products there in Japan.

A distributor to work with inside your own country offers several benefits :

1) Because distributors agree to buy in large quantity, we can provide our product at our lowest pricing possible. While the distributor does have to markup the price to cover his cost for shipping, taxes, Customs duties, etc. , and a modest profit, the overall cost to the customer will should be close to what it would  cost to send low quantites such a distance, as you'll see below.

2) The larger purchase allows for the lowest cost of shipping. An 
extreme example : If an overseas customer wanted 1 pound of wax (12- 
$14), then the cost of shipping would add another $12. This means that it 
would cost at least $24 to get 1 pound of wax delivered and take 
around 2-3 weeks for delivery.

3) Having a local source to buy from is convient and can cut the 
time to receive product from 3 weeks down to as little as 3 days.

For order in Japan, please contact :

HORIZING  Hiroto Tsubouchi
2-2-3 Katsuyama-Minami,
Ikuno-Ku Osaka
544-0021 Japan.
Mobile: 81-6-90-9719-0209
Fax: 81-6-6716-4125
herotonet@hotmail.com

Or

KAIBUTSUYA
1F 2-3-8 Itoya-Machi, Cyuou-Ku
Osaka540-0022　Japan.
Tel:81-6-6944-3139 

http://www.kaibutsuya.shop-site.jp/

Please remember that we are doing this to help get you  product much quicker than the order you placed on-line.

Kind regards,

 WillowProducts.com Team

Happy Father's Day!

If you're lucky enough to still have your dad, then let him know you love him!

If you're like me, and he's passed on... tell a story to the family about him... or make a toast in his honor.

Enjoy the day!

Great tutorial for creating skin textures

Here's a great tutorial for creating skin textures:

http://www.paint-sculpt.com/tutorials/sculpting-tutorial/sculpting-skin-texture.html

Thanks to Erick Sosa for the link!

Mantle Studios Tutorial on creating textures on wax

While I have to admit that I'm way behind my self-imposed schedule for posting PDF tutorials, here's the 2nd one to date, thanks whole-heartedly to Jason Babler and Mantle Studios.

These PDF have 4 goals:

1) Teach a lesson, provide insight, or be an idea generator for others.
2) Provide a little advert for the author.
3) Provide a little advert for WillowProducts.
4) Provide awareness of a charity or cause ( if desired by author)

Please note that these PDF's can be a tad large and take several minutes to load. Additional traffic can be a little brutal on my inexpensive webhost. Lastly, make sure you have the latest FREE Acrobat reader. There's a link on our homepage: http://www.willowproducts.com/

If you missed the first one, here it is:
http://www.willowproducts.com/media/documents/DIY_sculpting_tools.pdf

And without further ado.... here's Jason's tutorial on texturing wax. While he does this on FUSE, the same techniques will work on many brands.

http://www.mantlestudios.com/MantleStudios_WillowWax_Tutorial.pdf

Be sure to look beyond this document.... Jason's site has FANTASTIC tutorials on many things including a speciality ....wings !!!!!!

Thanks Jason!

Test first!

I just wanted to give readers an update on my earlier post on using my homemade polish/release agent consisting of castor oil and alcohol.
While I have used this myself and have gotten reports from others as well, below is a report from a trusted source that reveals that it doesn't work for all molding compunds:

Here is their experience:

1 part castor oil and 5 parts alcohol does retard/destroy the surface of one of my favorite platinum based RTV silicones. Smooth-On Rebound 25;
the brush on type. Both in a brush on and pressure casting. Might of been able to wash it off a surface or use thinner ratios but it is not worth the risk for my work flow as your waxes polish by other means so
well.

End of comment.

This brings up 2 points:
1) always test first as there are hundred of products and thousands of possible combinations and so testing them all and reporting them are not possible.

2) use the highest grade alcohol possible as the alcohol and castor oil may want to hold any water present in the alcohol tight. And of course the platinum cure silicones are the most sensitive to this issue.



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I'm out of the shop ....

I'll be out of the shop for the next 7 days.

Direct contact will be limited if existent.

Not to worry ...

Website will still take orders that go straight to jake's shop we he is hard at work getting caught up.

Go ahead... Get your order in and it'll get onto the processing list.
You don't pay for time spent on the list since Jake only invoices as he starts readying your order.

Thanks to all for the orders and patience while we work to fill them.

GO

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Happy Mother's Day

To all the mothers...

and those who give their motherly love to sustain us all.

It's the day where we pay homage to the spirit of motherhood knowing that none of us would be here without our mother's care from the first nine months and on.

Enjoy your day!
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