Customizing Your SlumpHump molds
By customizing your molds you can increase the versatility of your mold and you can add more of your own artistic style to your pieces. Here are just a few of the many ways to use these molds as a starting point.
If you'd like to change the contour of your mold you can by adding a coil of clay to the mold. Shown here is the Medium Ellipse altered to create more curve on the sidewall.
Changing the sidewall of your Slump mold.
Changing the sidewall of your Hump mold simply by adding a coil of clay. Smooth the coil while turning the mold on a banding wheel..
You can make "Donuts" to conserve shelf space. Just add a plastic or masonite bat to create a floor to support the inserted slab.
Just pour the Slump side partially.
If you would prefer to have a floor then brush on mold soap and pour again.
And this will be your result.
To create a nicely rounded square plaster mold for a salad and dinner plate, I inserted a thick slab and then shaped it with ribs while turning the mold on a banding wheel, and then poured the plaster in.
Adding a foot to a 12" Square Plate.
Templates made from roofing felt, Pony Roller and a "bevel tool" for shaping the rim.
The results were both plates are very similar even though the molds were slightly different.
Modifying the Medium and Large Square Molds to create Salad and Dinner Plate Molds
To create a nicely rounded square plaster mold for a salad and dinner plate, I inserted a thick slab and then shaped it with ribs while turning the mold on a banding wheel, and then poured the plaster in.
In this version, I used a commercial plate from the Dollar Store to form the floor of the plate and then added a thick coil around the edge of the plate.
Optional addition would be a coil around the rim of the mold to increase the depth for more strength at the outer edge.
Note: In the final result, both plates looked very similar. The plate from the mold with the added plate at the bottom of the mold, here on the right, was slightly less cupped towards the rim.
