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Make sure you mix this together enough to get the lumps out. I once again started off with the measured amount of water then stired in the powder. It’s just as simple as the alginate mixing, where you follow the mixing ratios of the provided powder with water. You’ll want to immediately start the process for pouring in your plaster. Now you can’t see really, but at this point I have a mold of my rock on hand shape and it’s time to pour in the plaster to make a cast. When it was time to pull out my hand, I started to gentle wiggle my hand and fingers until I felt the mold material letting loose. You only have to wait about 5 mins before the contents are ready for your hand to be removed.
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One benefit to using Alginate is its fast set time. Then I just sat and let it start hardening. I plunged my hand all the way in until I touched the bottom of the can and then pulled my hand back up about 1/2”. I tucked my fingers and this will make the cast stronger. When I formed my hand shape, I made sure not to leave any space between my fingers and my palm. I measured out the water first, then poured the powder in on top then stirred really well. The ingredients are the powder of the alginate and water. I followed the mixing instructions to mix together an amount that I thought would cover my hand in the container. One is silicone and the other is alginate, which uses algae as its main ingredient. So figure out the hand shape you’re going with first, then find a container that fits. I needed something that gave my hand room at the angle I wanted it to cast. I went with these trashcans because of the hand shape I was going after. They must mix the ingredients together too quickly as the mixers ruined my first batch. However, lesson learned! Don’t use the mixers. I grabbed a pail of water, some small plastic trash cans and some mixers to throw in a drill.
Plaster hand mold portable#
This project does make a mess and since I anticipated that, I set up a workstation of two plastic portable workbench tables. This is a casting of my actual hand and it’s called livecasting. Instead, I thought it would be funny to have a hand coming out the wall in the classic Rock On hand symbol (since my ISOtunes allow me to jam to music while in my shop). I could have just put a hook on the wall, but how boring.
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The best way to fix constantly loosing something is to make a home for it so in today’s video I’m going to be doing just that. Which means in the morning I have to go on a hunt to find them. Both hang around my neck when not in use but then at the end of the day I normally just toss them down on whatever surface I’m closest to.
Plaster hand mold pro#
I have two models I toggled back and forth between, the Pro version with a memory wire, and the Xtra version without.
Plaster hand mold Bluetooth#
I personal wear bluetooth OSHA compliant ISOtunes. The first thing I always grab when walking into my shop is my hearing protection.