Easy Silicone Mold Making with Phillip from DannerBuilds
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Phillip Danner of Danner Builds drops by the lab to show us his secrets for making silicone molds used for casting epoxy resin. Using only a handful of tools you can make your own molds for casting epoxy resin and more. Basic molds can even be made with a scroll saw or etching with a rotary tool. Sharing of knowledge is one of the things that makes the maker community so great - thank you to Phillip and Elizabeth Danner for coming to Narwhal Labs and teaching us their skills and techniques.
Special thanks to TotalBoat and Thunder laser for their support of Narwhal Labs and this project.
DannerBuilds Silicone and HDPE Molds: www.dannerbuilds.com/
Phillip Danner on Instagram: / phillip.danner
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Tools and supplies used in this video:
Inkscape - Free and Open SouceVector Based Design Software: inkscape.org
1/4" Cast Acrylic: www.mcmaster.com/8560K355/
Nitrile Gloves Warning! Latex gloves will inhibit the silicone curing process, do not use them for any part of this project
Isopropyl Alcohol
Metal Spatulas: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Oramask: www.amazon.com/dp/B078T4G97R/
Smooth-On Mold Star 15 (coming soon to totalboat.com!): www.reynoldsam.com/product/mo...
Paint Pots: www.totalboat.com/product/plas...
Hot Glue Applicator: www.jamestowndistributors.com...
Drill Mixers (optional): www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Cuticle Trimmer: www.amazon.com/dp/B00E0M563U
Free TotalBoat Pour Volume Calculator: www.totalboat.com/epoxy-calcul...
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Narwhal Labs is a community and makerspace that encourages and supports creative building, learning, and experimentation. Located in Bristol, Rhode Island at TotalBoat HQ.
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www.jamestowndistributors.com
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Supporters of NarwhalLabs:
TotalBoat - www.totalboat.com/
AvidCNC - www.avidcnc.com
ThunderLaser USA - www.thunderlaser.com/
MakerMade - www.makermade3d.com/
Arbortech - www.arbortechtools.com/
Bits&Bits - bitsbits.com/
Rockler - www.rockler.com/
Pony Jorgensen - ponyjorgensen.com/
SPAX - spax.us/ - Навчання та стиль
Great work Phillip! So glad you were willing and able to share your process with me (and everyone watching this video)! I've since made several molds following both your simple and advanced techniques and they all came out awesome.
Happy to share! 🙂
This was so cool to watch you guys make the molds! Awesome job Jeff and Phillip!
So much information. So glad I caught this. Love your guys awkward chemistry.
Learned a lot from this video. Thanks guy!
I have always wanted to see how molds were made and it was dope to see how you make the acrylic blanks aka the masters. WOW 🤩 Great 👍🏾 job!
Thank you! Cheers!
I just noticed that Jeff's hair matches his gloves. Nice detail...
Definitely planned that! lol
see and I even switched accounts. Finally got back to this video @dannerbuilds
How do you do 3D molds? What material? I have a cnc and can do 3D cuts.
Hello my friend, I am interested in making silicone molds, and I have all the tools, but it is very difficult for me to make molds with small details, for example a 4 cm circle, and there is a phrase or a logo on it.
Is there a certain setting for laser engraving?.
Settings will vary between lasers - even sometimes lasers of the same model, and of course it varies between materials. Even some acrylic can vary between suppliers. On our 100W CO2 unit from thunder laser, we use 15% power at 400mm/s speed for engraving in this cast acrylic that we bought from mcmaster carr.
"We are going to keep this accessible" ...immediately walks over to 10k$ laser
Phillip uses a $300 K40 laser at home. And you could join a makerspace and have access to a laser! You could of course make mold masters with a scroll saw and a dremel. Get creative!
@@NarwhalLabs your really harshing on my ability to bitch and moan here :)
@crashoverride93637 you know you could just hack into a laser cutter and get this done... you crashed 1507 systems causing a 7 point drop in the NYSE. Just don’t let Acidburn catch you.
@@skiptabor your literally the first person to recognize the name and I have had it for almost 15 years
Do you happen to share the files for the ornaments in this video? I very much enjoyed the presentation. Thanks.
We didn’t share the files for the ornament molds but you can DM @phillip.danner on Instagram to talk to him about the files or checkout dannerbuilds.com to purchase molds.
how to make molds at home - you need a $4,000 laser etcher.... stop video at 1:45
Hi Sammamishwa. While we’re lucky enough to have a really cool laser cutter, you don’t need one to make molds. You can do the same the same thing with much less expensive lasers, use services like Ponoko to cut your designs pretty inexpensively or find a local makerspace that has one you can use.
@@NarwhalLabs cool, why not make a video without the laser? so everyone can follow your steps to make a mold. I mean really to you want youtube viewers or not?
I use a $300 laser myself. They happen to have a bigger machine. There are of course services like mentioned to get your designs cut out as well. The intent was to show the process of making the mold itself however I see your point on how adding more information about what all you can mold besides just acrylic could add more value to the video. I appreciate the feedback.
"We will use as few tools as necessary" .....Then they start out with a laser cutter...like everybody owns one of those.