Mold For Silicone Cast: Silicone Bust Part 3

[@trappedshadow]

Excellent video, Mitch!!!

[@brickintheyard]

Thank you! This was a lot of fun and I think you will really appreciate the final piece!

[@billgreen4592]

Mitch, as always, thanks for posting this great content. These new videos are way more comprehensive than your earlier content and serve as a great resource. I really wish I had seen this before I destroyed a monster clay positive and came away with an unusable mold, exotherm is for real. Live and learn. I also wanted to offer a suggestion that your viewers may find helpful: Although Naptha works well for monster clay clean up, charcoal lighter fluid is considerably more aggressive, and has the additional advantage of not being banned in certain areas. Word of warning: obviously it is highly flammable, as is Naptha, use in a well ventilated area and not near open flame. I will echo your sentiment that the guys at BJB are super helpful, and would add the folks at Fox and Superfine are without equal. They currently have a Halloween discount in effect. Tell Ashley I sent you!

[@brickintheyard]

Thanks for the tip! I have not tried that for cleaning the mold but I will next time! Next time around I am going to make a piece with a TC-1630 mold and core. I don't think I have have ever shown a core mold process so now is he time!

[@billgreen4592]

@@brickintheyard Indeed a core mold video would be extremely helpful! I have made a few, but it would be great to see how the master does it!

[@jamesmatthews7774]

I appreciate you sharing this anecdote! I'm brainstorming a mold currently, and I'm on the fence between directly applying resin (as you see here) or making a silicone mold, silicone cast, and resin mold like you can see in Mitch's precious videos. You've validated my concerns with resin. It's not a substantial volume of resin, so perhaps I could pour it in 2 to 3 applications to minimize the heat generated? Also, I've been told that a slower cure resin tends to generate less heat, so maybe I'll bump it down to a 1-2 hour cure time. I also would love to see a core mold video l!

[@billgreen4592]

@@jamesmatthews7774 Mitch is the expert, so I would recommend that you follow his advice! After destroying my clay positive, I opted to make a brush on silicone mold of the new one. It cost more, but it did not destroy my original. My final part was cast in urethane and the silicone mold worked perfectly for that. As the saying goes, "There are many ways to skin a cat," but for the life of me I don't know why you would want to skin a cat. . . But I digress. So much depends on what your final part will be cast in, and how many copies you will be casting. So many factors to weigh.

[@brickintheyard]

@@jamesmatthews7774 Core mold video coming soon!!

[@CHIPNDEATH]

very nice,, it sound more complicated.,, maybe because using the resin you have available, but now I have an Idea how made a 2 piece resin mold,,

[@brickintheyard]

I would definitely use TC-1630 if I did this again. 1630 is less expensive but does require a lot of mixing of the A and B components before use.

[@AriePutra-r9m]

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