How Do You Make A Rubber Mold?
Making a rubber mold is easy and can help you reproduce something from nature or man-made. Using a two-part RTV rubber is a fun way to begin a new hobby and can open up a world of craft possibilities. • Find something that you wish to mold. Could be a pine cone that you wish to make into candles, an animal that you’ve sculpted and want to duplicate to give as a gift, anything that you want. • Look for mold making material. There are a number of companies that sell rubber for making molds. Type “mold making materials” into Google for a list of suppliers. • Build your mold box. You will need to surround your model with some sort of wall to contain the liquid mold rubber. Generally you should leave 1/2″ between the walls and your model, use a yogurt container, or make a custom form out of foam core and hot melt glue. • Determine if you need to seal model. In order to make sure your model will release from the mold rubber you must first seal your model if it is porous, and you may also nee
