Email Q&A: Which Floral Foam?
Question: 4/24/04: I’ve just finished looking at your site, and it gave me a alot of good ideas for my own holds that I am starting to carve. And you’re right, there is definately a big creativity curve that goes on when first starting to shape them. You said that you used floral foam a little bit. Do you use the harder stuff for fake flowers only, or have you also used the softer stuff for real flowers? and if you HAVE used the softer stuff, has it presented a problem when casting a mold out of it with the silicone becuase it is too soft? My other question is how do you deal with taking the prototype out of the silicone mold if the protoype has a very extreme incut to it? Thanks. I look forward to showing you some of my holds that your site helped out with (if any of my holds ever do once I’m beyond the shaping stage.) -Jon Reply: Hey John, I’ve used both the soft and hard oasis foam and both will work, however the harder is better in my opinion for texture. The biggest thing is makin
