The squareness and thickness of the silicone provides support doing away with the mother mold/ And you don't have to worry about fixatropics. The square block mold uses more silicone but it's simplied in a way. With a mother mold you have a thin innner silicone mold that is encased in the thicker supporting hyrdocal. h The dvd approach also used dental grade hyrdocal as a mother mold. Can build it up or brush it on and it will "defy gravity". If you had the thickener it'll hold it shape like whip cream but it's still thick like honey. You can brush it on to vertical surfaces and it won't run.
The DVD I bought utilized "fixatropics", basically it's stuff you add to silicone to make it thicker. It however uses more silicone than more advanced techniques. Now to construct the mold.Īfter screwing up the first mold I decided to make it easy for myself and construct a two piece block mold. Smooth-On charges more to encourage it's customer to shop locally. However not everything is listed on the website. They had everything I needed and cheaper. (PM me if you want to see it) Also ordered mold release spray: Here is where I should have ordered the materials. (Buy locally though) I also ordered the DVD on break away bottles. Check out a local distributor for smooth on products, chances are they will have the Break away glass resin (Piccolastic/Piccotex) products as well. On the Smooth-On website I found a distributor for their products that also carried the "break away glass" resin. However I could have saved a lot more money if I had bought locally. I ordered from a place called "Special Effect Supply Corporation", has a family-run feel, based out of Utah.
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And definitely not edible, very nasty, like a mouth full of sand. I don't know about how green recyclable they are though. They are all reusable, in the sense that after you break them or if a mold didn't come out perfect you can remelt them. Piccolastic is more elastic while piccotex is more brittle. The resin i used had a generic name of "break away bottle blend" It's a combination of Piccolastic and Piccotex which are also generic names. I purchased the silicone and brown dye from Smooth-On: The brown dye is translucent and does a real good job of simulating brown beer bottle glass. It however doesn't last as long as platinum cured.
Materials: 1 dedicated cooking pot ( I used a dollar store pan) 1 dedicated candy thermometer Break Away glass resin Resin dye (I used brown, comes in a 2oz bottle) Silicone (tin or platinum cured, don't need a lot, about 6 lbs total) mold release spray ( there are other options explained later) foamcore/legos to build the mold (I used foamcore with a glue gun) glue gun a timer gloves rubber bands bernzomatic/igniter measuring cup I decided to try tin-cure silicone, it's a little bit cheaper than platinum cure and works just the same. Candy glass is also still a cheaper route to go. He uses sugar glass but the techniques work just the same for resin. I recommend watching this video by "Indy Mogul" to get a feel for what's being done. After emailing a few people I learned that professionals use a special type of resin instead of "sugar glass". So that wasn't the route I was going to take and instead started researching how break away glass was made. Here is a "Budweiser" bottle $16.00 each! But wait how much for shipping? 1 #108 BROWN LONG NECK BEER BOTTLE $16 PACKAGING CHARGE $10 SUBTOTAL: $26 SALES TAX: $2.15 TOTAL: $28.15 Almost $30.00 for 1 bottle! However you can order up to 4 bottles for the same shipping/packaging price so maybe closer to $20.00 But they don't guarantee the bottles after the package has left their hands and that it will make it in one piece. Here is a popular supplier of all things break away glass. The Instructable you've all been waiting for! Originally I was going to just buy a few professionally made break away bottles, but I had sticker shock and figured I could just make them myself.
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