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Casting with Plaster of Paris Skills and Techniques

Why Plaster of Paris Casting? Plaster of Paris has many advantages over other casting materials. We, at ComposiMold have been using Plaster of Paris to create great theater backdrops, toys, and other crafts. Here’s a list of possible reasons why you may want to use ComposiMold’s Plaster of Paris. Is it because Plaster of Paris is a low cost casting [...]

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Casting with Plaster of Paris

Why Plaster of Paris Casting? Plaster of Paris has many advantages over other casting materials. Along with low cost, the plaster is simple to use, creates great castings, and works great with ComposiMold when used with the ComposiMold Plaster Additive. We at ComposiMold have been using Plaster of Paris to create great theater backdrops, toys, and other crafts.  What [...]

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DIY Bath Bomb into CUSTOM Shapes

DIY BATH BOMBS:My daughter just returned from Lush Bath with some cool bath bomb shapes and designs, which gave me the idea for a post on molding your own bath bombs with ImPRESSive Putty, a re-usable molding material that you can use to make as many different shapes as you want.How about a train shaped [...]

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Silicone is Better For Toys, Not Molds.

Silicone is a nice rubber, but is it worthwhile to use it for silicone molds? Silicone rubber can get expensive. The more you use, the more it costs. In many cases, you can use ComposiMold or ImPRESSive Putty to give yourself more control and better molds that silicone molds. Use ComposiMold or ImPRESSive Putty if:We [...]

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Make Your Own Soft Bait Fishing Lures with Plastisol PVC Based Do It Molds Rubber

Make Your Own Soft Bait Fishing Lures with our soft bait lure kit. With the Soft Bait Lure Kit, you have 9 unique shapes to get you started. Mix and match heads, bodies, and tails to create the perfect lure for your angling needs. Then make a mold of your unique lure shape and cast [...]

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How to Make Crayola Crayon Lego Pieces

Crayola Crayons are a great casting material. You can make your crayons into any shape. Including Lego Shapes or animal shapes. The process is very straight forward. The Crayola crayons are nice because they have reasonably good colorants added, but any other crayon could be used. A recent addition to the crayon world is the [...]

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11 DIY Christmas Gifts for the Crafter in You.

To me, making Christmas crafts is the most exciting part of the winter holiday. Christmas crafts bring out the maker almost as much as the Halloween ghouls in the fall, but typically Christmas crafts are a touch less creepy and more festive. But don't let anything stop you from the more atypical crafts. Anything [...]

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​Mold Making, “The Art of Duplication,” With ComposiMold

Mold Making is “The Art of Duplication”. A mold is made by making a negative shape of an original master piece. ComposiMold is a new product developed to improve mold making, it is a rubbery, flexible resin, and unlike most flexible mold making materials, ComposiMold is a thermoplastic that can be melted continuously.ComposiMold came about because the company’s President, [...]

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Polymer Clay Push Molds with ImPRESSive Putty, A Leaf and A Candle Holder

Polymer clay is a modeling clay that can be formed by hand or in these examples molded with molds. Polymer clay is well suited making art pieces and craft projects because the polymer clay is hardened in the oven to make reasonably sturdy finished parts. These “how to” tutorials demonstrate methods of forming the clay [...]

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5 Easy Casting Material Recipes That Make Great Castings with ComposiMold Molds

So the ComposiMold saying goes like this: Make more molds with 1 pound of ComposiMold than with 30 pounds of other mold making materials. This is because ComposiMold can be re-melted and re-used to make a new mold.But what about casting materials?Here we show you 5 recipes of casting materials that you can make yourself [...]

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Why ComposiMold for Mold Making? Because it works