Home Crafts & Hobbies How‑To's

Home Crafts & Hobbies
Smooth-On rubbers, plastics and foams are ideal for a variety of home hobbies and arts & crafts projects. Easy to use OOMOO silicone mold rubber is perfect for the hobbyist and can be used to reproduce detail of any small or simple model. Smooth-Cast 300 liquid plastic can then be poured into your OOMOO mold to make an exact copy of your original. Great for school projects (note; these materials require adult supervision at all times).
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Molding and Casting a Cosplay Cloak Brooch

Molding and Casting a Cosplay Cloak Brooch

Learn to make a mold and casting of a translucent cloak brooch perfect for cosplay.

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How To Make a Custom Foam Storage Insert

How To Make a Custom Foam Storage Insert

A Custom Made Foam Insert for Electronics or Other Delicate Equipment

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How To Coat a Wood Bartop Using Tarbender™

How To Coat a Wood Bartop Using Tarbender™

Watch as Completely Custom creates a high gloss, impact resistant bartop

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How To Make a Colored Pencil Bowl Using EpoxAcast™ 690 Epoxy

How To Make a Colored Pencil Bowl Using EpoxAcast™ 690 Epoxy

Learn how to create a diy epoxy bowl with embedded colored pencils.

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How To Make a River Table Using Clear Epoxy Casting Resin and Reclaimed Wood

How To Make a River Table Using Clear Epoxy Casting Resin and Reclaimed Wood

How to use a piece of reclaimed cedar to create a beautiful river table

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How To Make Metal Cold Cast Decorative Panels

How To Make Metal Cold Cast Decorative Panels

Creating metal cold cast panels using Smooth Cast ONYX liquid plastic and bronze powder.

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How To Make a Wonder Woman Cosplay using UreCoat™

How To Make a Wonder Woman Cosplay using UreCoat™

How to make costume armor using craft foam and Smooth-On's UreCoat

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How To Recreate an Antique Frame using Mold Max™ 29NV No Vacuum Required Silicone

How To Recreate an Antique Frame using Mold Max™ 29NV No Vacuum Required Silicone

Learn how to use Mold Max 29NV for creating a high-detail silicone mold

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Alja-Safe™ Alginate Quick Start Guide

Alja-Safe™ Alginate Quick Start Guide

Follow this simple step-by-step lifecasting guide, and you will have a perfect lifecasting which will 'freeze time'.

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How To Make Custom Food Safe Silicone Candy Molds Using Sorta-Clear™ 37

How To Make Custom Food Safe Silicone Candy Molds Using Sorta-Clear™ 37

In this video, we show how food-safe Sorta-Clear™ 37 silicone is used to make a mold for pouring candies.

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How To Make a Floral Arrangement Using Encapso® K

How To Make a Floral Arrangement Using Encapso® K

This video demonstrates using Smooth-On's Encapso® K to create a realistic floral display.

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How To Make Gourd Candle Molds With Martha Stewart Using OOMOO™ Silicone

How To Make Gourd Candle Molds With Martha Stewart Using OOMOO™ Silicone

Real gourds are molded using OOMOO® silicone to create unique and beautiful candle molds.

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Martha Stewart Makes Encapso® K Specimen Jars

Martha Stewart Makes Encapso® K Specimen Jars

Martha makes prop specimen jars for Halloween using Smooth-On Encapso® K silicone rubber.

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Martha Stewart Makes Resin Flower Barrettes

Martha Stewart Makes Resin Flower Barrettes

Martha and Morgan Levine use a dipping technique to create hard barrettes and brooches using crepe paper flowers.

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How To Make a Fake Potion Bottles Using Encapso® K

How To Make a Fake Potion Bottles Using Encapso® K

In this video, Smooth-On fan Jara shows how to make fake potion bottles using Encapso-K silicone rubber.

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How To Coat a Flower With Resin

How To Coat a Flower With Resin

Watch as Jara coats a silk flower with XTC-3D epoxy resin to create a long-lasting glossy display.

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How To Make a Resin Metal Cold Casting

How To Make a Resin Metal Cold Casting

Smooth-On fan Jon N. shows how he makes a mold for a real metal cold casting.

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How To Make a Faux Marble Pen Using Epoxy Putty

How To Make a Faux Marble Pen Using Epoxy Putty

Customer Jara A. shows how she created a faux marble pen using Free Form® Sculpt

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Christmas Ornaments Tutorial Using Casting Resin

Christmas Ornaments Tutorial Using Casting Resin

Smooth-On Fan Jara uses Smooth-Cast® 326 Casting Resin to create some fun holiday ornaments.

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Rapid Pole Setting Using FOAM iT!™ 5 Expanding Foam

Rapid Pole Setting Using FOAM iT!™ 5 Expanding Foam

Using Foam-iT!® 5 fast setting rigid urethane foam offers several advantages for pole setting.

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How To Make a Glow In The Dark Resin Jewelry Necklace

How To Make a Glow In The Dark Resin Jewelry Necklace

We show how you can combine Glow Worm® powder with resin to create an amazing glowing pendant.

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DIY Self-Healing Urethane Rubber Cutting Mat

DIY Self-Healing Urethane Rubber Cutting Mat

See how to make your own custom self-healing cutting mat for a large graphics table.

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How To Make a Gang Mold For Soap Production

How To Make a Gang Mold For Soap Production

This DIY tutorial shows how to make a gang mold of multiple models for production casting of soap.

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How To Make a Metallic Finish Using Cast Magic™ Powder

How To Make a Metallic Finish Using Cast Magic™ Powder

How to use Pearly Green Cast Magic® powder on a black ONYX® resin casting to get a beautiful metallic finish.

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How To Coat CNC Carved Foam Using Epsilon™ PRO Epoxy Coating

How To Coat CNC Carved Foam Using Epsilon™ PRO Epoxy Coating

Epsilon™ PRO produces a semi-rigid impact resistant surface on carved foam

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How To Make a Custom Foam Seat Using Pourable Urethane Foam

How To Make a Custom Foam Seat Using Pourable Urethane Foam

Pourable polyurethane foam materials are used to create a unique piece of custom furniture.

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How To Make a Wonder Woman Amazon Armband

How To Make a Wonder Woman Amazon Armband

Jon shows us how he created an Amazon armband for a Wonder Woman cosplay.

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How To Restore an Antique Picture Frame Using PoYo Putty

How To Restore an Antique Picture Frame Using PoYo Putty

How to use PoYo Putty silicone putty to repair a damaged picture frame

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How To Paint a Sculpture Created with Free Form™ SCULPT Epoxy

How To Paint a Sculpture Created with Free Form™ SCULPT Epoxy

Free Form® SCULPT accepts paint permanently - no primer is required.

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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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How To Repair a Flat Tire Using FlexFoam-iT! 25

How To Repair a Flat Tire Using FlexFoam-iT! 25

See How You Can Use FlexFoam-iT! Foam To Permanently Repair a Tire

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How To Make a Rug Skid-Free Using Brush-On™ 40 Urethane Rubber

How To Make a Rug Skid-Free Using Brush-On™ 40 Urethane Rubber

See how versatile Brush-On™ 40 can be used to make a non-skid surface

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Repairing a Rotted Wooden Post Using Smooth-On High Temp Epoxies

Repairing a Rotted Wooden Post Using Smooth-On High Temp Epoxies

Milo shows how you can repair a rotted wooden post using Free Form™ AIR HT and EpoxAmite™ HT.

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