Advanced Techniques Tutorials by Smooth-On, Inc.

Advanced Techniques How‑To's

Advanced Techniques
The next step in moldmaking. These videos and step-by-step tutorials show techniques which are for advanced users and include cavity molds, multi-part molds, and other ways to mold complicated originals. Whether you are interested in reproducing a sculpted figure, an antique picture frame, an industrial pattern, an architectural molding, a fossil, animal skin (taxidermy), the texture of a piece of fabric, or a toy, you start by making a rubber mold. Whether you want to make one or one thousand reproductions of an original, you can do it using a mold. Whether your original model is made from clay, wax, plaster, sand, concrete, stone, metal, bone or almost any material, making a rubber mold makes it possible to reproduce that model – exactly.
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How To Make Your Own Mold Knives

How To Make Your Own Mold Knives

Milo shows how you can make your own mold knife using readily available, affordable blades.

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How To Make a Silicone Block Mold of an Irregularly Shaped Model

How To Make a Silicone Block Mold of an Irregularly Shaped Model

Learn how to save material and money by making your silicone mold conform to the shape of your model.

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How To Rotocast a Hollow Part Using Smooth-Cast™ 65D

How To Rotocast a Hollow Part Using Smooth-Cast™ 65D

Creating a hollow casting with high impact resistance by rotating a mold while casting.

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How To Create a Marble Effect Using Urethane Plastic

How To Create a Marble Effect Using Urethane Plastic

Creating a realistic cast marble effect is possible with Smooth-Cast® 325 liquid plastic.

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Building the World's Largest Underwater Christmas Tree

Building the World's Largest Underwater Christmas Tree

How Vegas Props fabricated the world's largest underwater Christmas tree

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How To Make a Kiln Formed Glass Sign for Retail Kiosks

How To Make a Kiln Formed Glass Sign for Retail Kiosks

Learn how Greg Schadt of Gravity Glas Design created an amazing kiln-formed sign.

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How To Make a Replacement Car Lens Using Crystal Clear 202

How To Make a Replacement Car Lens Using Crystal Clear 202

How you can replicate a tail light lens of any car using optically-clear resin.

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How To Create a High Temperature Tool Using EpoxAmite™ HT and EpoxAcoat™ HT

How To Create a High Temperature Tool Using EpoxAmite™ HT and EpoxAcoat™ HT

High temperature tooling resins play an important role in creating composite parts and are a low cost alternative to metal molds.

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How To Create a Silicone Rubber Texture Mat for GFRC Panels

How To Create a Silicone Rubber Texture Mat for GFRC Panels

Granary wall inside the barn features woodgrain textures that can be duplicated onto GFRC panels for a shower install.

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How to Make a 2 Piece Core Mold: Concrete Urn Example

How to Make a 2 Piece Core Mold: Concrete Urn Example

This tutorial outlines the steps for creating a two-piece cored mold using Reoflex® 40 urethane rubber from Smooth-On.

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How To Use The Kwikee™ Sprayer

How To Use The Kwikee™ Sprayer

Using the Kwikee™ Sprayer to spray mold making and casting release agents will save you over 60% vs. aerosols.

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How To Make a Two Piece Silicone Mold of a Knife

How To Make a Two Piece Silicone Mold of a Knife

We demonstrate using Mold Star 30 silicone, a platinum silicone for mold making...

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How To Use duoMatrix NEO™ For A Rotational Casting

How To Use duoMatrix NEO™ For A Rotational Casting

duoMatrix NEO® is a versatile polymer modified gypsum system that has superior physical and performance properties

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How To Make a Mold Star™ 16 Forensics Impression Mold

How To Make a Mold Star™ 16 Forensics Impression Mold

This mold making tutorial video demonstrates how Mold Star 16 FAST silicone can be used to take forensic impression evidence.

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How To Make a Silicone Mold of a Prototype Using Smooth-Sil™ 960

How To Make a Silicone Mold of a Prototype Using Smooth-Sil™ 960

The process of creating a very high accuracy silicone mold using platinum cure silicone.

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How To Use Plasti-Paste™ EPOXY to Make a Support Shell

How To Use Plasti-Paste™ EPOXY to Make a Support Shell

How Plasti-Paste™ EPOXY can be used to make a support shell for a brush mold.

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Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 1: How To Make a Silicone Glove Mold

Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 1: How To Make a Silicone Glove Mold

How you can use Rebound 25 silicone rubber to make a mold of an Iron Man helmet.

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Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 2: How To Make an Epoxy Support Shell and Hand Rotated Casting

Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 2: How To Make an Epoxy Support Shell and Hand Rotated Casting

How to make an epoxy fiberglass support shell using the EpoxAmite laminating epoxy system

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