ComposiMold Reusable Mold Making Material's video: Resin Casting Tutorial Clear Resin Casting Statue of Liberty Figurine

www.ComposiMold.com Resin casting is a great way to create beautiful duplicates. It’s perfect for jewelry making, art forms, sculptures, and prototyping. Here we show you how to use a great resin with a great mold making material, the reusable mold making material, ComposiMold, with ComposiCast Resin designed specifically for jewelry resin castings. To start, place your original part that you are duplicating into a mold box, such as a simple plastic cup. You can also use aluminum foil, legos, or sealed wood for your mold box. To keep your part from floating, use hot glue, polymer clay, or glue dots like we show here. Shake the Bubble Buster and Spray your part to reduce bubble formation. Bubble buster reduces surface tension so the bubbles rise up off your part. ComposiMold melts in the microwave in a minute or two depending on the amounts melted. This liquid mold making material is poured over your part. You only have to melt what you need and if you need more ComposiMold, you can just melt more. ComposiMold can be melted and remelted continuously to make dozens and dozens of custom molds. Look for bubbles in any crevices or undercuts and use a paperclip to pull those bubbles away from the surface of the part. It doesn’t matter about bubbles in the ComposiMold, just on the surface of the part you are duplicating. Let the ComposiMold cool to solidify. In the freezer, this part would take about 30 minutes. Take the mold out of the mold box. Use a knife to clean up the bottom edge a bit and pull out the original. I could have cut the mold down the side to make removal a little easier, but I wanted to try to make the part without a parting line. Because ComposiMold is flexible, it allows relatively large undercuts to be molded successfully. Now you’re ready for the ComposiCast Jewelry Resin. ComposiCast-Jewelry grade is a low viscosity very clear resin designed with jewelry making in mind. The low viscosity allows most bubbles to rise out to give a very clear part. It has a UV stabilizer added and mixes 1:1 by weight or volume. It is also one of the most forgiving resins available so that you can be off by up to 10% and still have solid plastic piece. It cures in 14 to 15 hours with a working time of about 45 minutes for plenty of time to mix and pour. Mix the resin as carefully as possibly to reduce the bubble formation. The resin is very low viscosity so the bubbles have more of a chance to rise up and out. Pour enough resin to fill the mold. To remove bubbles from individual areas you can use several techniques. The easiest is to squeeze the mold until the bubbles move up and out. Be sure you have enough resin above the bubble to fill the area being evacuated.You can see the bubbles rise up and out of the head and arm, which are very thin so it’s easy to capture a little bubble. The transparency of the ComposiMold makes this task of seeing the voids very easy. You can also use a syringe to push ComposiCast Resin into the areas that are not being filled. After waiting a night for the part to cure into a nice, clear resin, we are ready to pull out the duplicate. Here we go. Again, I could have cut down the side of the mold, but decided to just pull the figure out. And here we go. Tada. Your very own Statue of Liberty in clear ComposiCast resin. You can reuse this mold or remelt to make a new mold any time you want. Thank you for watching and happy mold making.