| I once had a customer who carved faces into natural | | | | favorite lamp that kept breaking in the same place. It |
| wood. His problem was that too many people were | | | | was a plastic part and I didn't want to replace the |
| asking for his artwork and he couldn't produce it fast | | | | lamp so I made a rubber mold of the part and |
| enough. So he got the idea of having me make of | | | | poured all the extra pieces, I wanted, using resin. |
| mold of his wooden piece, so that he could pour the | | | | Small plastic parts can be so easily replaced, if you |
| design in hydrastone. | | | | just happen to have some rubber compound and |
| When he was finished, these hydrastone pieces, | | | | some resin. |
| looked just like the wood. Give you any ideas? | | | | Of course, there's always molds for ceramics and |
| There are rubber compounds, designed to take high | | | | some of those molds are of suitable shape to pour |
| heat, like molten metals and paraffin. You could | | | | slushed plaster. Things like small vases, figurines, etc. |
| design your own candles and make a mold of it. You | | | | It all depends on whether or not, your plaster piece |
| wouldn't even have to use paraffin for the design. | | | | will remove from the mold, easily. All you need to do |
| You could use sulphur free modeling clay to make | | | | is soak the inside of your ceramic molds with shellac, |
| the design then pour your wax into the mold. | | | | add some mold release and pour in your hydrastone |
| I see no reason not to make salt n pepper shakers | | | | or plaster. |
| out of hydrastone, using rubber molds. They don't | | | | You can create incense burners with hydrastone, |
| have to be glazed inside, just dry and safe. | | | | simply by making a rubber mold for the outside of |
| Hydrastone being a very hard plaster, does not dust | | | | the design, as well as the inside. The inside piece |
| off. | | | | would actually be a plug. Again, remember that all |
| Once you've formed something out of anything rigid | | | | plasters swell and then shrink slightly so the plug |
| (wood, pottery, plaster), you can make a mold of it | | | | needs to not be solid, to make it easy to remove. |
| and reproduce it in hydrastone. Then you can paint it | | | | You can make a mold of your own face!:) Check out |
| to look like anything you wish: wood, porcelain, | | | | all the products and information on Smooth-On and |
| whatever. | | | | see for yourself. You just might come up with a |
| My daughter has an idea for a soap mold and is just | | | | thousand ideas. |
| waiting for me to mix too much rubber.:) I had a | | | | |