Post #677552 by danlovestikis on Sat, May 11, 2013 7:22 AM

GROG we are trying to get those GROG muscles pictured on the last page! Your are right though, our mold is crazy heavy, again.

hang10tiki now I feel sorry for him but he'll be saved soon.

WaikikianMoeKele my favorite part too. On the tiki of course.

Progress Report on the first day of mold making.

Continuing day one I mark the level I want the liquid plaster to reach with a piece of clay. GROG I didn't mix enough to make the line so I thought we were making it even thinner. Nope.

Taking off the box you can see how thick it is.

Now we flipped it, nix that, Dan flipped it over and I smoothed this out and we poured this side. I forgot to take photos.

Now we have two sides poured. We belted it so the sides would stay in place.

I dug out the clay on one side and used mold soap so we could pour plaster touching plaster and not have it stick.

We added boards to the ends and belted them in place added snakes and poured plaster. We repeated this for the other side.

For the bottom I made the space between pieces larger so that plaster from the bottom would fill it in and make it less likely to leak. I made a mistake here. I should have also made the bump locks on each piece. Oh Well.

Mold soap, snakes and ready to pour the last piece.

At the end of a long day we had one mold that should work out.

At 18 inches tall that means my mold walls were 2.5 inches thick. A very heavy mold.

Now this mold needs to completely dry out before use.

Tomorrow I'll post the Horror of making the second mold. Thank goodness we can survive with just one.

I hope you have a wonderful Saturday, Wendy