Ceramic Slip Mould

Casting your own shapes affords you the opportunity to carve and cut into the greenware.

Ceramic slip mould.

Bags that require mixing with water and a deflocculant such as soda ash sodium silicate darvan 7 or darvan 811. We also have dry mix casting slips available in 50 lb. Ceramic molds are usually made out of plaster for use with liquid clay slip while some may also be used as presses for clay slabs. Not to be used for casting plaster.

Sodium silicate 16 oz clay silicate 16oz. Learn to make and use bisque molds and plaster molds plus get casting slip recipes when you download this freebie ceramic mold making techniques. Liquid casting slips are available in low fire midrange stoneware high fire stoneware and porcelain. Casting slips are pre made ready to use for pouring and making casts in plaster molds.

Plaster molds are used in pottery because they absorb water out of the clay as it dries. Have a question or need help. Please allow 2 4 weeks for delivery. Over the next 13 years a number of mold brands have been added making us the largest manufacturer of pottery molds in the ceramic arts industry with almost 12 000 designs available.

Ten little pumpkins mold claym 0551. Here s a document you can download that covers many of the basics. Used for thinning slip. We do not offer greenware bisque or finished pieces only the molds that make them.

With a little modification to the original jug design i made new plaster molds one for the handle figure 1 and the other for the body of the form. These molds are made of plaster to be used only with ceramic casting slip mud and perhaps wax. Slip casting molds by mayco. A comprehensive guide to pouring molds maintaining slip and casting wit.

Molds do not include straps or rubber bands to hold them together while pouring slip into them. This keeps clay from sticking to them and helps reduce warping. Casting molds have been an integral tool for ceramists for decades. Our goal is produce the finest quality slip cast molds available using united states gypsum 1 pottery plaster.

Make offer vtg ceramic pottery slip casting mold leaf bowl 8 1 4 long x 4 1 2 wide alberta s 1263 quail teapot with lid ceramic slip casting mold new 18 00. The molds that we currently carry are for forming slabs and or texturing slabs of clay and not slips of clay.