The Music Lives On With New Found Mold Making & Casting Skills

The Music Lives On With New Found Mold Making & Casting Skills

Christov Curystanos has been collecting antiques for years. His passion, however, is collecting old 78 RPM records made in the late 1800's and early 1900's. An avid fan of swing, big-band and other genres long past, Mr. Curystanos has an extensive collection and has always wanted to sell rare titles long out of production. Problem: Many of these titles are one-of-a-kind and very valuable.

Mr. Curystanos attended a Smooth-On mold making and casting seminar and was soon making his own molds and castings at home. He chose Smooth-Sil 940® silicone rubber to make the molds because he wanted a rubber that would stand up to production casting of resin, shrink minimally and last a long time in his mold library.

The castings are made of TASK 4® Plastic and play perfectly on his antique gramaphones - some better than the originals that the molds were made from. He is also now able to offer public domain copies of rare recordings to others.

1 - Original 78 record is secured in a box.	2 - Smooth-Sil® 940 is mixed, vacuumed and poured over model.	3 - Next day, the rubber mold is removed from the model, reflecting each groove and even the imprint from the label.
4 - TASK® 4 is mixed with SO-Strong® black tint, poured into the mold and allowed to cure.	5 - The TASK® 4 casting is removed from the mold and placed on a Victrola turnstile. . . does it actually play?	6 - Perfectly . . . Every time.