Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available. - Other Crafts

D danlovestikis Grand Member (8 years) Joined: Jun 17, 2002 Posts: 9083	D danlovestikis Posted posted on Mon, Apr 1, 2019 9:24 AM hang10tiki I like to create rather than copy but in the tiki world almost everything is a copy. Since I really love this face it was a fun one to do. You mug too was fun because of the great challenge it presented. ========================== This post is all about saving a mold. One of the very first we ever made was of a bowl I sculpted. Out of the mold it looks like this. I then cut off the top and it becomes the bowl I used for making the Frankoma little tiki bowls and many other projects. While still flexible I stretched one for the last project I posted. After so many years of use one side of the mold has deteriorated and the mold leaks badly. I have to plug all the seams to use it. This piece and the bottom are fine but this piece had sheets of plater coming off. The damaged piece was pushed aside and will be thrown out. So what I will do it fine tune the two piece I will keep and pour a new piece to replace the damaged one. Out came the rasp because I have some surfaces I can make even better. I knew one day I would need the sculpt for a new mold because I was using it so often. I saved it. Otherwise you can cast a bowl and keep it in place and then make the new part. I was just lucky I saved this sculpt. You can see where I rasped the mold piece. It is not flatter and the adjoining piece we make will work better. Next I pressed clay around the sculpt to make sure there are no leaks into the existing piece. I'm wearing a glove to protect a cut on a finger. But we are putting on our face masks since we are working with plaster. The dust will destroy your lungs. I made a little fellow to protect the opening into the mold. Three layers of mold soap before pouring the next piece or they will glue together permanently. We put on the mold box and I ran clay snakes along all the seams. We poured the plaster into the box. Now it will set up and then the mold will be taken apart to dry for weeks. I am looking forward to casting this bowl without first plugging all the leaks. It's worth the work. Wendy [ Edited by: danlovestikis 2019-04-01 09:28 ]

hang10tiki I like to create rather than copy but in the tiki world almost everything is a copy. Since I really love this face it was a fun one to do. You mug too was fun because of the great challenge it presented.

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This post is all about saving a mold. One of the very first we ever made was of a bowl I sculpted. Out of the mold it looks like this.

I then cut off the top and it becomes the bowl I used for making the Frankoma little tiki bowls and many other projects.

While still flexible I stretched one for the last project I posted.

After so many years of use one side of the mold has deteriorated and the mold leaks badly. I have to plug all the seams to use it. This piece and the bottom are fine but

this piece had sheets of plater coming off.

The damaged piece was pushed aside and will be thrown out. So what I will do it fine tune the two piece I will keep and pour a new piece to replace the damaged one. Out came the rasp because I have some surfaces I can make even better.

I knew one day I would need the sculpt for a new mold because I was using it so often. I saved it. Otherwise you can cast a bowl and keep it in place and then make the new part. I was just lucky I saved this sculpt. You can see where I rasped the mold piece. It is not flatter and the adjoining piece we make will work better.

Next I pressed clay around the sculpt to make sure there are no leaks into the existing piece. I'm wearing a glove to protect a cut on a finger. But we are putting on our face masks since we are working with plaster. The dust will destroy your lungs.

I made a little fellow to protect the opening into the mold. Three layers of mold soap before pouring the next piece or they will glue together permanently.

We put on the mold box and I ran clay snakes along all the seams.

We poured the plaster into the box.

Now it will set up and then the mold will be taken apart to dry for weeks.

I am looking forward to casting this bowl without first plugging all the leaks. It's worth the work. Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2019-04-01 09:28 ]

Post #794193 by danlovestikis on Mon, Apr 1, 2019 9:24 AM