A tip for the wick Robert, dip it in the hot wax and hang it to dry before you fix it in the mould, it makes it much simpler and becomes self-supporting. You also get an actual "wick" not a "piece of string" when you de-mould it.
Thanks Robert. Perfect timing, I am making a David mould for a candle maker client next week, sculpture arrived this afternoon. Today's video will save me plenty of time. Thank you. Best Regards Jez
I'm in my sixth year of teaching. I normally do EMT classes, but have gotten myself into prosthetics now. I am being trained in a lot of different fields that encompass this area of Medical technology. One of the fields, and the one I am most interested in, is creating synthetic skin using lifelike silicone. I love this channel already and I am going to watch everything you have! Thank you!
regarding the calculation of wax for the sculpture, you can calculate the volume of wax needed easily by water displacement. fill a container to the absolute brim with water, put it in another container that can catch overflow. then put in your object. make sure it's completely covered by water. the water that overflows into the outer container is the exact volume of the object. you can then use that volume to measure out a different liquid, in this case, wax.
This is the best molding and casting channel I found and if you were here on youtube years ago, I would avoid many mistakes and save so much time. Thank you for teaching us. Watching your results, I will now be cutting molds as first option from now.
Sir, you deserve my sub. I am very delighted to see an older gentleman in the workshop enjoying interesting projects while sharing his knowledge and experience.
Mannnn I can't even right now! ♥️😆🤗 I decided to watch 3 hrs of mold making on TH-cam (because well why not at 3am with insomnia lol). Not only did you make me smile, laugh and learn you added alot of love to your tutorials. ♥️ A breath of fresh air if I must say! Thank you for helping me get over my frustration with mold making! Next... Must learn how to make molds for earring tunnels and earring plugs! ♥️Thank you Sir and keep doing what you're doing!
Bravo, that sure was something new. I tried wax casting and found that controling the right pour temprature can be a problem. I think that moderate heating of the mold does help in some ways. Still amazing to see what some folk artists can do with this medium. Wax has been used as a casting compound producing religious folk articles (figurines, angels etc.) for ages. As I understand there are a lot of old secret formulars and ingrediants around, kept secret outside the family. If you make it to Germany, Bavaria is a good place to look around for wax art. Makes one speechless to see what castings once where (and still are) mass produced without the aid of a pressure pot etc. I think pressure wasn´t even in this world than .... Great Show as usual - looking forward to next friday.
My father would make sealed molds by pouring another thin layer around the seal, and have them suspended in boiling water. One wick hole filled tight, you can let the wax settle without melting immediately. Then you you can easily tear it back open. Turn off the hot water, walk away. He made a lot of
I called the wax supply house, and asked if they carried: "Magnificent, Beautiful, Sticky Wax"; the length of the pause from their end of the phone was hysterically uncomfortable. LOL!!!
Great mold and video, very thorough. A couple of tips for you, which you're probably already aware of; A cheap (ebay) pair of medical retractors act as a second pair of hands when cutting open the mould - helpful when scalpels are close to fingers. Soft clay in a syringe with the needle removed creates great spaghetti like 'worms' to seal around mold bases. Cheers Robert.
I have cast toy dog heads in wax for a project in art school. To get out some of the voids out i poured out the hot wax after it coated the inner surface. Then filled after the inner core cooled.
I watched to see if making my own molds for candle making was feasible, so obviously I've never made a mild before. I've bought plenty of pre-made molds and the advice for wax is always to slightly pre-heat the mold. Hope that helps ❤. Thank you for this video even if you only rated your end product a B-😊!
Great Work Robert! Mostly I do CAD modeling, 3D printing, and blow/injection molding models, but you have really influenced me to want to try silicone casting!
Michelangelo starting David at 26 may kill you, but seeing you making such interesting things at an age older than me gives me hope for what my future might look like someday too. Love the channel, love all your vids. Thanks for what you do!
To avoid bubbles you could carfully slushcast the first part to make sure all of the holes and pockets are filled after which you fill up the remainder of the model.
You got new subscriber!. I enjoyed a lot how do you managed to make it works, and you are sharing your experience so naturally, congratulations. Here a cuban guy learning from you :D
Well of course!! I enjoy ( so much) watching you tackle new projects and using different crafting materials. It is such a pleasure to watch your videos and they are SO helpful as well. Thank you!!
Nice to see a simple cut mould . When you held up the original and the casting , even before you said it I could see the shrinkage . Thanks for something different. Hope you're well mate .
your channel is so wonderful thank you for sharing knowledge for artists like me who want to do mold making! Your tips and tricks save us lots of wasted rubber!
I was just introduced to the channel a few days ago… I’ve been watching a lot of them since… i love the information and how you deliver it. I’m curious about approaching a mold of a reverse light housing for an old car.. would love your input. Thanks for the channel
That was a fun watch, thanks Robert! I've got a book called Pop Sculpture about making figurines and collectibles, and they use wax castings during the refinement process. The way they avoid shrinkage, distortion, and loss of detail is preheating the mold in the microwave as well as doing pressure casting. This necessitates a small reservoir of extra wax to fill in as the shrink occurs, like a larger pour funnel integrated into the mold. They also use crayons (white + desired color) in the wax batch to pigment the sculpture's surface and get it more visible, but I'm not sure if those pigments are safe to burn in a candle.
Yes, a reservoir is a good idea. I often rough out a sculpt in clay then re-cast it in sculpting wax to do the final work. In those cases I make the clay sculpture 8 to 10% oversized and place it on a reservoir base. Of course, I am casting it in sculpting wax which has a lot of solids. That reduces the amount of shrink and preserves the detail. I pressure cast it to remove bubbles and also heat the mold so that the wax doesn’t cool while it is being poured into the mold. Still, it shrinks enough to be noticeable.
I expected worse. I've made candles and there is ussually a deep divot down the center and once fill it it has its own divot. You do it a few times. Lots of regular like votive candles are compressed sort of powdered wax.
The proper technique is to use a wick needle and just poke a hole and pull the wick through. I don’t have a wick needle, so I cut the parting line to the top of the head and just secured the wick between the halves of the mold.
@@RobertTolone Hi Robert, watch you a lot. Great stuff. I made a candle mould for a client and created the wick hole with just a thin wire pushed through the top of the mould after curing. Use the same wire with a looped end to insert the wick. The silicon just closes and holds the wick in place.
I wonder if there would be a way to 3D print the object with more volume than intended so that when the wax shrinks it ends up with the proper proportion and detail. Like an embroidery machine, when creating a digital design you have to overcompensate the size and stretch the image to account for the shrinkage that happens when stitching tightens the material during embroidery and shrinks the image
Nice work! But there is one thing I don't really understand. You have a perfect mould case from when you made the mould but you don't use it for the cast. Would it not make it easier to get even pressure on the mould than with the rubber bands alone?
That is an excellent question Christian. The reason I don’t use it is because it can be difficult to perfectly align the rubber mold with the original case. Also inside the case I cannot see the parting lines. I like to be able to massage, prod and poke the rubber mold into a proper alignment along the parting line. When you cannot see the parting line you can’t tell if it is aligned with certainty.
Interesting to see wax used for casting, I am not sure about Noura’s choice of David, I think Michael Jackson or Joan of Arc would’ve been good subjects for Candle making.
what type of wax did you use on the cardboard tube to act as a release agent? and why not use a pencil to indicate where to cut the mould, seems more logical to me?
i would look for some sort of color additive that works well with wax it just doesn't have the same quality of the dramatic lighting and shadows that the original does
Robert could using a surfactant to help aid surface tension and cut down the bubbles? If yes what would you use? Also would warming the mold up help when pouring hot material?
I don’t know of any surfactant that would help and I am always leery of extra materials in the process. When casting wax it is very helpful to warm the mold.
Hi y'all I just have question about making moulded candles and how to slow down the colour change! I noticed in 2 or 3 months the colour of candles that I made changed so I was wondering is there a solution for this
Very little. I made a video about the very first thing I ever cast (in high school) which was a bust in concrete. I do know that you can use urethane rubber molds for concrete and they last a long time.
I put the wick into the cut line and closed the mold rubber around it. It only leaked a tiny amount of wax around the wick. as I have learned, the proper way to do it is to use a wicking needle and simply poke the needle through the rubber and pull the wick into the mold cavity.
@@RobertTolone amazing thankyou so much for these informative videos , I'm from the UK and actually watch them with my children because they find them mesmerising 🙌
Wondering since the overhangs are still there after painting on the rubber, if it could create bubbles still under the overhang and if the pressure of casting could cause the bubbles to cause a distortion in the casting
So nice to see an older youtuber sharing their experience and skills! 💗
FYI-"older" people have a lot more knowledge than younger ones.
The Bob Ross of the waxing world. What an adorable human being ✨
He’s my favorite ❤
Wow, you are truly amazing. The tutorial was perfect, the best I've seen. I was just excited as you. Thanks for making my day!
you dont make boring videos, nice lessons. all thumbs up!!
A tip for the wick Robert, dip it in the hot wax and hang it to dry before you fix it in the mould, it makes it much simpler and becomes self-supporting. You also get an actual "wick" not a "piece of string" when you de-mould it.
Great idea!
Thanks Robert. Perfect timing, I am making a David mould for a candle maker client next week, sculpture arrived this afternoon. Today's video will save me plenty of time. Thank you. Best Regards Jez
We’re living in parallel universes Jez.
You are the Bob Ross of casting
I'm in my sixth year of teaching. I normally do EMT classes, but have gotten myself into prosthetics now. I am being trained in a lot of different fields that encompass this area of Medical technology. One of the fields, and the one I am most interested in, is creating synthetic skin using lifelike silicone. I love this channel already and I am going to watch everything you have! Thank you!
Thanks for watching Tyler!
regarding the calculation of wax for the sculpture, you can calculate the volume of wax needed easily by water displacement.
fill a container to the absolute brim with water, put it in another container that can catch overflow. then put in your object. make sure it's completely covered by water. the water that overflows into the outer container is the exact volume of the object. you can then use that volume to measure out a different liquid, in this case, wax.
This is the best molding and casting channel I found and if you were here on youtube years ago, I would avoid many mistakes and save so much time. Thank you for teaching us. Watching your results, I will now be cutting molds as first option from now.
Excellent video. Good film quality with good light, nice closeups and good overall video timing
Sir, you deserve my sub. I am very delighted to see an older gentleman in the workshop enjoying interesting projects while sharing his knowledge and experience.
Pro Tip @14:24 Knowing what i thought i knew...I would have over looked that. I learned something new.
I love how you MacGyver little obstacle that come your way.
Great video!
Haha, thanks Henry!
Aren’t you glad she didn’t send you Medusa 😂 still over all it came out pretty good!
I love Medusa! ❤
Mannnn I can't even right now! ♥️😆🤗 I decided to watch 3 hrs of mold making on TH-cam (because well why not at 3am with insomnia lol). Not only did you make me smile, laugh and learn you added alot of love to your tutorials. ♥️ A breath of fresh air if I must say! Thank you for helping me get over my frustration with mold making! Next... Must learn how to make molds for earring tunnels and earring plugs! ♥️Thank you Sir and keep doing what you're doing!
Glad you like my videos; thanks for the nice comment!
That's most beautiful tutorial I have ever saw.. thanks master
Robert I loved watching this. Great information. I want to make candle molds and you definitely inspire me.
Bob and Dave. Wonderful combination. Thank you.
Dammit! I could have titled the video Bob and Dave’s Big Adventure!
@@RobertTolone 🤣
Bravo, that sure was something new. I tried wax casting and found that controling the right pour temprature can be a problem.
I think that moderate heating of the mold does help in some ways. Still amazing to see what some folk artists can do with this medium. Wax has been used as a casting compound producing religious folk articles (figurines, angels etc.) for ages. As I understand there are a lot of old secret formulars and ingrediants around, kept secret outside the family. If you make it to Germany, Bavaria is a good place to look around for wax art. Makes one speechless to see what castings once where (and still are) mass produced without the aid of a pressure pot etc. I think pressure wasn´t even in this world than ....
Great Show as usual - looking forward to next friday.
My father would make sealed molds by pouring another thin layer around the seal, and have them suspended in boiling water. One wick hole filled tight, you can let the wax settle without melting immediately. Then you you can easily tear it back open.
Turn off the hot water, walk away. He made a lot of
I called the wax supply house, and asked if they carried: "Magnificent, Beautiful, Sticky Wax"; the length of the pause from their end of the phone was hysterically uncomfortable. LOL!!!
Sometimes you get some ignoramus on the phone who fails to appreciate the splendors of sticky wax! 😄
That was thoroughly enjoyable to watch. Very succinct and Robert I could listen to you all day.
Really neat! I have been wanting to make my wife some candles that smell really good like this. Can't wait to try this method.
Fanito! You had me at that!
Great mold and video, very thorough. A couple of tips for you, which you're probably already aware of; A cheap (ebay) pair of medical retractors act as a second pair of hands when cutting open the mould - helpful when scalpels are close to fingers. Soft clay in a syringe with the needle removed creates great spaghetti like 'worms' to seal around mold bases. Cheers Robert.
I have cast toy dog heads in wax for a project in art school. To get out some of the voids out i poured out the hot wax after it coated the inner surface. Then filled after the inner core cooled.
I watched to see if making my own molds for candle making was feasible, so obviously I've never made a mild before. I've bought plenty of pre-made molds and the advice for wax is always to slightly pre-heat the mold. Hope that helps ❤. Thank you for this video even if you only rated your end product a B-😊!
Great Work Robert! Mostly I do CAD modeling, 3D printing, and blow/injection molding models, but you have really influenced me to want to try silicone casting!
Give it a try! It’s a lot of fun. Thanks for watching my videos.
Is it alright to not vacuum seal while curing?
You're amazing !! Love it.
Please I would love to know all the product to use. 🇨🇦😁
Michelangelo starting David at 26 may kill you, but seeing you making such interesting things at an age older than me gives me hope for what my future might look like someday too. Love the channel, love all your vids. Thanks for what you do!
Old artists never retire; they just die in their studios and hope somebody notices!
@@RobertTolone I love that quote!
To avoid bubbles you could carfully slushcast the first part to make sure all of the holes and pockets are filled after which you fill up the remainder of the model.
Belethor's goods anyone? Some may call this junk, me I call them treasures.
Awesome video. Really informative. The wax is such a good idea.
You got new subscriber!. I enjoyed a lot how do you managed to make it works, and you are sharing your experience so naturally, congratulations. Here a cuban guy learning from you :D
You are a master in your craft !!!
Only if a master is someone who never stops trying to learn and improve.
Well of course!! I enjoy ( so much) watching you tackle new projects and using different crafting materials. It is such a pleasure to watch your videos and they are SO helpful as well. Thank you!!
Nice result Robert and not a shred of 'duct tape' to be seen. Cheers!
Fantastic video . I plan to cast some 1/25 wheel set. This was extremely helpful.
No matter how old we get it is always good to learn something new. Doc BC
Did you make a hole for the wick in the mold?
You’re the best man! The absolute best
Nice to see a simple cut mould . When you held up the original and the casting , even before you said it I could see the shrinkage . Thanks for something different. Hope you're well mate .
All is well Glen. Thanks.
If you need a 31 year old son, I’m up for grabs.
Thanks for teaching me how to make a candle dad !
Very cute and informative video, thanks a lot for sharing 🥰🥰
your channel is so wonderful thank you for sharing knowledge for artists like me who want to do mold making! Your tips and tricks save us lots of wasted rubber!
So glad you find the channel useful! Thanks.
Came out amazing Dora got a amazing eye sight thank you guys for this video!!
this infomration is so useful. thank you very much!
Im ordering some wax right now! This looks like a fun weekend project. Great video as always
Let us know how it turns out!
This was fantastic.
I love it! 😍
I’m going to try using my molds to make a candle.
Great teacher! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I'm new to stuff like this. and you did well😄.
I hope you always healthy❤️❤️
im loving this channel
Thank you so much for you amazing videos!
Thanks Rob.
I have learnt a lot from your videos and am about to embark on my first silicone mold of a metal skull gear stick knob ...wish me luck
I was just introduced to the channel a few days ago… I’ve been watching a lot of them since… i love the information and how you deliver it. I’m curious about approaching a mold of a reverse light housing for an old car.. would love your input. Thanks for the channel
Where are you getting your wax from and what's it called?
That was a fun watch, thanks Robert!
I've got a book called Pop Sculpture about making figurines and collectibles, and they use wax castings during the refinement process. The way they avoid shrinkage, distortion, and loss of detail is preheating the mold in the microwave as well as doing pressure casting. This necessitates a small reservoir of extra wax to fill in as the shrink occurs, like a larger pour funnel integrated into the mold. They also use crayons (white + desired color) in the wax batch to pigment the sculpture's surface and get it more visible, but I'm not sure if those pigments are safe to burn in a candle.
Yes, a reservoir is a good idea. I often rough out a sculpt in clay then re-cast it in sculpting wax to do the final work. In those cases I make the clay sculpture 8 to 10% oversized and place it on a reservoir base. Of course, I am casting it in sculpting wax which has a lot of solids. That reduces the amount of shrink and preserves the detail. I pressure cast it to remove bubbles and also heat the mold so that the wax doesn’t cool while it is being poured into the mold. Still, it shrinks enough to be noticeable.
Another great video!
it's great to see you Robert!! As always it's another great tutorial!!!
Thanks Melo!
so neat! thanks for sharing
I want a mold like that!!!! I’ve been wanting to make candles of that exactly but bigger
I’m really enjoying all your videos informative educational and all-around excellent thank you so much
Nice Video!
Nice to see that even you do something completely new sometimes, that you've never done before. :-D
What wax is that
That shrinkage tho. wow. did not expect that.
I expected worse. I've made candles and there is ussually a deep divot down the center and once fill it it has its own divot. You do it a few times.
Lots of regular like votive candles are compressed sort of powdered wax.
@@chartle1 I have a silicone mold and poured lead into it.(yes 360°c Hot)
I also made a pour with gipsum/cement. Guess which one is bigger!
How cool is that ✅
Man you are such a cool dude I love your videos.
Hey, thanks for watching!
Nice cast! Love this vid. Wonderful make
Take a shot every time he says "catch a bubble" 😂 great video, mate! 👍
great video
Impressive!
all ways fun to watch ur video sr 😃👍
Thanks Julio!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It was intertaining, suspenful :-), and funny. Oh! and I learned stuff :-)
Glad you enjoyed it Sara!
Can one use a hair dryer on hot instead of the heat gun?
Another great video Robert, having a warm mold helps when candle making. Im guessing you made a hole to pull the wick through the top?
The proper technique is to use a wick needle and just poke a hole and pull the wick through. I don’t have a wick needle, so I cut the parting line to the top of the head and just secured the wick between the halves of the mold.
@@RobertTolone Hi Robert, watch you a lot. Great stuff. I made a candle mould for a client and created the wick hole with just a thin wire pushed through the top of the mould after curing. Use the same wire with a looped end to insert the wick. The silicon just closes and holds the wick in place.
Question; If you placed the original upside down-wouldn't that (mostly) eliminate potential bubbles?
Could you do this with monster clay? Since it is a wax based castelline?
I wonder if there would be a way to 3D print the object with more volume than intended so that when the wax shrinks it ends up with the proper proportion and detail. Like an embroidery machine, when creating a digital design you have to overcompensate the size and stretch the image to account for the shrinkage that happens when stitching tightens the material during embroidery and shrinks the image
Nice work!
But there is one thing I don't really understand. You have a perfect mould case from when you made the mould but you don't use it for the cast. Would it not make it easier to get even pressure on the mould than with the rubber bands alone?
That is an excellent question Christian. The reason I don’t use it is because it can be difficult to perfectly align the rubber mold with the original case. Also inside the case I cannot see the parting lines. I like to be able to massage, prod and poke the rubber mold into a proper alignment along the parting line. When you cannot see the parting line you can’t tell if it is aligned with certainty.
@@RobertTolone thank you for your answer. Now I see the sense in your decision.
Great show! Thanks!
Interesting to see wax used for casting, I am not sure about Noura’s choice of David, I think Michael Jackson or Joan of Arc would’ve been good subjects for Candle making.
Hey! I’m trying to cast an 8 inch pleaser stiletto and running into some issues with the straps ! Any tips ???
Question, why do you use rubber instead of silicone for mold? I am just starting learning to mk molds so I have no idea.
what do you call the electric device to fix the bubbles?
It is a Foredom Wax Carving Pen.
I want to make of a candle jar vessel mold out of a mug? How does that happen?
Very nice explan
Love this dude! Doesn't he sound like Red Green?
Where can I get hold of some cheap but good mold rubber?
Super cool! Do you use wax because it's sustainable? Can you actually reuse the waxed boards and cardboard you coat or do you discard them?
what type of wax did you use on the cardboard tube to act as a release agent? and why not use a pencil to indicate where to cut the mould, seems more logical to me?
i would look for some sort of color additive that works well with wax it just doesn't have the same quality of the dramatic lighting and shadows that the original does
Robert could using a surfactant to help aid surface tension and cut down the bubbles? If yes what would you use? Also would warming the mold up help when pouring hot material?
I don’t know of any surfactant that would help and I am always leery of extra materials in the process. When casting wax it is very helpful to warm the mold.
Hi y'all I just have question about making moulded candles and how to slow down the colour change! I noticed in 2 or 3 months the colour of candles that I made changed so I was wondering is there a solution for this
This is and you are awesome, I'm subscribing. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and subbing!
Does the first paint job of rubber have any issues adhering to your pour of rubber afterwards? I know silicone sticks to silicone.
Informative as always. Do you have any experience with casting concrete? I am thinking about making some garden ornaments.
Very little. I made a video about the very first thing I ever cast (in high school) which was a bust in concrete. I do know that you can use urethane rubber molds for concrete and they last a long time.
@@RobertTolone Thx, I'll have a look into into it.
How did you stop the wick from leaving an imprint in the head when you placed it in the mould and how did you fix it in place inside ?
I put the wick into the cut line and closed the mold rubber around it. It only leaked a tiny amount of wax around the wick. as I have learned, the proper way to do it is to use a wicking needle and simply poke the needle through the rubber and pull the wick into the mold cavity.
@@RobertTolone amazing thankyou so much for these informative videos , I'm from the UK and actually watch them with my children because they find them mesmerising 🙌
@@georgiadennis6758 Thanks for watching Georgia. I appreciate it!
Wondering since the overhangs are still there after painting on the rubber, if it could create bubbles still under the overhang and if the pressure of casting could cause the bubbles to cause a distortion in the casting
Anytime you have bubbles in a mold it can potentially cost distortion.
How do I contact you about making a mold for me?