Creating molds - Tiki Carving

T TikiTrevor Member La Habra, CA Joined: Jan 15, 2004 Posts: 208	T TikiTrevor Posted posted on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 9:43 AM Hey everyone, thanks for all of your help and suggestions. I checked out a few of those links and they were helpful. In college, I took a few classes on Casting and sand molding so I'm pretty familiar with that process. What I might do is make a sand mold first just to get a template model so I can clean up some of the lines on the tiki. Also this way I won't have to worry about loosing him if I try other process/materials for multi use molds. If I do a sand mold, what do you suggest I make the tiki's out of (i.e. concrete, plaster, ceramics...) My concrete tiki weighs like 50 lbs and I'm trying to see if I can reduce the weight a bit.

Hey everyone, thanks for all of your help and suggestions. I checked out a few of those links and they were helpful. In college, I took a few classes on Casting and sand molding so I'm pretty familiar with that process.

What I might do is make a sand mold first just to get a template model so I can clean up some of the lines on the tiki. Also this way I won't have to worry about loosing him if I try other process/materials for multi use molds. If I do a sand mold, what do you suggest I make the tiki's out of (i.e. concrete, plaster, ceramics...) My concrete tiki weighs like 50 lbs and I'm trying to see if I can reduce the weight a bit.

Post #70204 by TikiTrevor on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 9:43 AM