Homemade plaster cloth free#

If you do not have one, pour as carefully as possible. My pot had a prebuilt spout in it which made pouring easier. Place your mold over a spill guard, with the hole facing up. I did not take pictures of the actual pouring as I needed both hands for the procedure. For this project, and for cost issues, I will make a casting in wax. Therefore, finished molds will work for almost any casting material - I preferably like to create projects out of wax, tin, silver, and gold as these materials are very easy to work with. Plaster is an ideal material for this project as it is very malleable in its unhardened shape, and can withstand very high heat when dry. To demonstrate the process for the instructable, I have chosen a sea shell since it is an object that cannot be duplicated with a one part mold system but is very streamlined - it lacks advanced features such as protrusions. The advantage of a two part mold over a one part (where molten material is poured into an open mold) is that much more structurally complicated objects can be duplicated in this way.

Depending on what materials you already have available, the total cost for creating a single two part reusable mold will range from 0-25$. So What I've done here was develop a cheap way to create molds for various casting projects.

Homemade plaster cloth free#

I tried to take as many photos as possible and will explain the process as thoroughly as possible, but should you require additional help feel free to mention it in the comments below. Before I start, I'd like to note that this is my first instructable so please excuse any potential gaps in logic I made and some of the blurry pictures.