Rubber Mold Making Tutorial

There should be instructions with the material but most rubbers require you to carefully mix the two parts together using a specific ratio.

Rubber mold making tutorial.

Slides videos and hands on demonstration introduce you to the basics of mold making and casting in an easy to understand format. Attendees make their own molds and castings over the 2 day period. I also show you how the silicone molds actually. This instructional tutorial shows how to make a one piece silicone mold out of a transparent rtv silicone.

The clarity of the rubber allows for easier cuttin. This mold making tutorial video shows how to make a one piece silicone block mold using oomoo silicone rubber. Cut the mold step 6. Whether you want to make one or one thousand reproductions of an original.

Construct mold box prepare sculpture step 3. Whether you are interested in how to make a mold for reproducing a sculpted figure an antique picture frame an industrial pattern an architectural molding a fossil animal skin taxidermy the texture of a piece of fabric or a toy you start by making a rubber mold. Select a mold making method mold rubber step 2. This is my first time making silicone molds and it was so easy.

Prepare the mixture for your rubber mold. An easyflo 60 polyurethane plastic casting removed from a platsil 73 40 silicone rubber mold click here for a tutorial on making this mold epoxy resins silicone rubbers are sometimes preferred for casting epoxy resins because a release agent is not needed. Your rubber will typically come in a two part liquid. This article details the steps that we took throughout the mold making and casting process.

This will create the liquid rubber that you will pour into your mold. However the corrosive curing agent in epoxies quickly wears down silicone. Now i want to make a mold of everything. Techniques for making cavity molds multi part molds and other methods to mold complicated originals.