How To Make Ceramic Jewelry Molds

My other two silicone making videos are incredibly long and i ramble on and on about every little thing.

How to make ceramic jewelry molds.

Quick video on how to clean kiln wash off casting and slumping molds. Jewelry molds accessory finishing components bisque china brushes art sets ceramic equipment clay casting slip clay other craft tools decals electrical lamp firing supplies glass glue tape literature video molds mold supplies musical supplies paint glaze color specials tree lights toppers. Molds make it possible to repeat patterns and forms for a variety of reasons. It is a good idea to trace an outline onto the wax first then carve it out with an artist s knife.

Ceramic mold making is not as difficult as you might imagine. This ceramic jewelry making technique allows a fine delicate line to be scored into the surface of a plaster block which will form a raised decoration on the surface of soft clay pressed into it. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. This intricate design can be reproduced quickly once the plaster block has been made.

Jewelers wax is the best but you can melt down a candle as well. To make a rubber mold you will need your original pendant a mold frame rubber mold making material a pair of good size sharp scissors lots of curved edge scalpel blades and a vulcanizer. Ceramic mold making techniques. Plus they explain how they use stamps to texture each slab.

Once you have learned how to mix plaster and pour a plaster mold you. A vulcanizer is a machine that modifies rubber with heat and pressure. Tips for making plaster bisque and styrofoam molds making and using casting slip and decorating ceramic surfaces learn to make ceramic molds in this free pdf. For allistair and sally macdonell press molds really came in handy for a series of ceramic jewelry that they wanted to make.

Make a model of your gold jewelry piece by carving it in wax. Tips for making plaster molds and slip casting clay is a great place to start. Their intended purpose was to help complete beginner. In this post the macdonells show us how easy it is to make plaster press molds.