Updated January 20, 2022
How to make a plaster mold for ceramics showing the single most important step for success or failure
Intro for mold making
If you are working in almost any area of ceramics you can likely use plaster molds to assist making various forms. Bowl or hump shaped molds are very common when handbuilding forms. Slipcasting exclusively uses plaster molds to make its forms. I will show you how I make the simplest type of mold in this article, the one piece plaster mold. I go into the detail for the single most important aspect, choosing the form you will use to make a mold.
To make it easy to find, here is a timelapse of the process described below.
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