Email Q&A: Use Sand as a Mold?
Question: 1/24/04: Wow!Great site! Very Informative!Congratulations. Hi,I’ve been thinking in make my own holds, but I don’t want to lost my time making molds. I’ve been trying with a Dupont Body Filler (here in mexico there’s almost impossible to find Bondo, any way is almost the same, I think) and making “cookies” of that, and Wow!, Instant holds!. In order to get the texture, I use a metal brush or something like while the bondo is still not hard enogh, and I gently flick the hold. It seems to work, (I have no try it so hard yet). But I read that the liquid resin works better, so I want to try it. I read in yor page about sand molds, and I was thinking about it. I want to know if somebody already try it and if that works. I was thinking that if I use some wet sand I can easily make some molds (Ok, I forgot, here, in my town, I dont know where to get some clay…), and, If I change the quality of the sand, I get differents textures for the holds (well, this could be crazy, but I have
