Well now I want to rewrite the lyrics of "mustang sally" into "mustache Allie"

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Oh, I'd be here for that! 😂

Sounds like exactly what I was looking for. Initially I wanted to make a positive and create a silicone mold for some mugs, but Ill give making the molds directly a try. Btw if you use a resin printer for the mold pieces then you can probably reduce the clean up time alot.

This is fascinating!! Ive been creating some silicon molds using 3D prints- and the process is pretty similar! If, like me, you struggle with tiny 3D print lines, I'd suggest painting the mold with some smoothon XTC-3D! It also seals the mold if you're using a material that might bleed/might receive bleed from the plastic

I am a 3d printer who just got into resin and wanted to mess with cermics and clay to try new things. My goal was work with clay and 3d scan it with new gen 3d scanners then get basic shapes and designs then edit them of all things with VR scuplting program so I can make it 4 feet talk and do find details and zoom back out and see it at 100% size. But after thought was molds but I was thinking do silcone or palster molds of dyes made with printers. This has me wanting to play with making cuts, containers like custom toothrbrush holder etc etc using the high detail resin printer. Like I am een taking a cermics class to play with it and learn more about clay and cermics at my locla commuinity college and honeslty gonna be running ideas like making molds for some my projects in that class. I met professor before selling 3d prints at school art sales, so I think he be down as long as I still do the required stuff for the class. But I really like this video. My only issue would be print lines, but again I got resin printer or will in July in time for fall semester and I can do 12k resolution molds just not sure how much detail the clay can keep when its fired, that will be trial and error lol.

Brilliant video. These are beautiful finished pieces too. Bravo all round

So cool! Thank you for taking the time to make this video ( I do realize you didn’t make it just for me)! My little brain is flipping out. So many projects!!

@katzcreates

15 күн бұрын

Thank you! 😀 I made it for everyone who might benefit from a bit of mind blowing and inspiration, so that definitely includes you! 😄 I'm so glad you like it!

Excellent Allie. I have spent a lifetime of work making mouldings of metal and plastics and never before considered ceramics - and now I really want to try some! Jolly well done @KatzCreates

At the 9:08 stage - would you consider using a balloon - e.g. a volleyball-bladder - to push the shape into all the crevices, even in places that your fingers may not be able to reach? After use, it can be deflated, of course, to be extracted out of the smallest of openings... Rad tee-shirt, btw :)

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Hmmm, that's a good question! I suspect it wouldn't be strong enough to really push the clay into the grooves, but if it was done with an air pump and stronger balloon material, it might work! If you give it a try, please let me know how it goes! 😀

Aaaaah! I missed the release. So glad to see you back on KZread, and with a fantastic video nonetheless!

Super video. Well produced. Extra fancy graphics. Love this experimentation. Mahalo for sharing! ❤️🙂🙏

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, that means a lot! 😁

So cool! This is exactly what i'm looking for...

@katzcreates

10 күн бұрын

Wonderful! :D I'm so glad you found it then!

Great work!

I'm pretty new to ceramics and had been considering trying to do something like this but had no idea where to begin. Thanks for making this video - turns out I was way overthinking it!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this! 🥰 I know ceramics can seem really scary and overwhelming, so this was exactly what I was hoping to achieve with this video and technique. I just wanted to help give folks an avenue to give it a try! 😊

Great video! For the fluted vase would it be worth printing a small section of the male mould (inside)? If you had one or two of the ribs, and possibly indexing slots top & bottom to more easily form the slab? That might make it a bit less tedious. Maybe artifically smaller radius and taller to avoid tearing the valley? Also, for drying, you could make a shield for the leading edge so the hair dryer wouldn't be too uneven... that would probably be easier than incorporating air channels for drying from the mould side. A couple speed clamps might also make it easier while working on the two quarter sections.

YES! Btw, thank you for enduring my person during SMRRF! (I was the guy attracted by your badge).

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Nothing to apologise for! 😁 It was great to meet you! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video too!!

Great inventions

Very neat. Next step? 3d print to clay, to make a mould for casting metal to injection mould plastic. Circular economy! 😂 Seriously though, excellent work!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Don't suggest that, I might just do it! 🤣

What a fantastic process! Great video! =D

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Thank you sir! 😁 I do live for spreading that juicy knowledge!

I'm glad you de-costumed and I instantly took you more seriously when I saw the apron (I wear one in my shop too (I love the front pockets!)) and you CLEARLY know WTF about a ton of technical things. Bravo Katz! Liked and subscribed, duh! P.S. Great graphics and video editing!

@OhPervyOne

5 ай бұрын

My-Intrusive-Thoughts-Won Comment: You should grow a goatee, so you can be Joe T with the goatee. Okay I said it. Maybe my brain will leave me alone for awhile.

I have an electric kiln in our garage that, *ahem*, I still haven't used due to needing to amass some of the supplies I need. I really hope that someday, I can use this to combine my love of 3D-printing with a newfound hobby in ceramics. 😊 Awesome video.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

If EVER I have heard a sign from the universe that you should Do The Thing, it's already having a kiln in your garage. 😂 You know what you gotta do now! Fortunately, this technique ain't going nowhere, so it'll be ready when you are. And I'll be looking forward to seeing the results!!

Very cool development!! I’d be very curious to see how printing nylon would affect the water absorption time. Nylon is hard to print with, but it pulls moisture like a sponge

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

That's a great question! I'm honestly not sure what the absorption rate of nylon is, though I'm admittedly skeptical that it's anywhere close to plaster. 😅 I'd love to hear the results though if someone were to try it! 😁

@jvann244

4 ай бұрын

I'm curious about the same thing if you were to try printing the mold pieces with TPU

Thanks for sharing this! I recently just purchased a 3-in-1 3D printer/laser cutter/CNC, and I can’t wait to try different techniques in my pottery practice! My 3D modeling skills need a bit of brushing up. :)

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Oh, those are lots of fun! 😃 I'd love to see what you come up with!

Cool. 👍

I saw you on Joel's video and I HAD to see the results of mixing 3D printing with ceramics.... Using cornflower to keep it from sticking..... I should try that again with my attempts at concrete molds

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

It's worth a shot! I'm not 100% sure if it'll work with concrete since that cures a bit differently than clay, but it may be worth a try! 😊

Well, that is an instant subscribe.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😁

bravo !

o wow, this is really cool. i want to make so many things now. thanks for this video! will you also make a video how you finish these things? how to bake and glaze?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊 Unfortunately, I don't have a video planned at the moment for the rest of the process, mostly because I'm not an expert at those parts, and there are better people making videos about firing and glazing ceramics! But I love hearing there's interest in the rest of the process!

This is really cool. I had a couple ideas while watching that may (or may not - I know very little about ceramics/working with clay) be helpful. Firstly, if you want to create molds that are going to be reused, it could be helpful to spend some time on post processing the mold itself, and smooth the layer lines (or even add something like a gel coat) in order to reduce the amount of time you have to spend cleaning up the mold lines. There are versions of PLA (such as cosPLA from Polymaker) that are specifically designed for easy sanding. ABS is also very sandable, if you have a printer that can reliably print it. Second, if you used a higher temperature plastic than PLA, you could potentially put the mold in a hotter space to speed up the drying process, though that may cause issues with the center drying too fast while the clay that’s pressed against the plastic is still too wet? As I said, I know virtually nothing about ceramics. Finally, for the molds, could you have another mold section that makes up the base, so you can press everything together at once? I don’t know if that would be useful, but I can imagine that if I were working with this process, I would be worried about ruining the entire piece while attempting to attach the base.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Hi there! 😊 I'm pretty sure I've got answers to your ponderings and I'll do my best to address them all! Smoothing out the layer lines in the clay really is an extremely trivial thing that takes very little time, and what doesn't get smoothed will disappear in the glaze when you do the final firing. Sanding or otherwise finishing the interior of the printed mould would undoubtedly take LOADS more time, even with something easily sandable. The more complex internal shapes would be an actual nightmare to sand! 😅 It takes less time to sponge away layer lines from clay. You're right that putting the mould somewhere warmer to dry would probably dry it faster, however, since the plastic is unlikely to hold the heat evenly, there's a very high chance of uneven drying, which can cause major cracks due to thermal expansion. Sadly, patience is better in this case! As far as a mould for the base, I reckon this could potentially work for very wide mouthed pieces, but otherwise you close up an entry for air flow and working (if you need to get inside to smooth bits before attaching a base, for example. Attaching the base by hand isn't too difficult, and a good cutter helps a lot with that bit! 😊 I hope this helps! I have done by best to account for most things, but of course I could have missed something, so I appreciate the questions!

@KaminKevCrew

5 ай бұрын

@@katzcreates thank you for the info! That's all very good information. I appreciate you.

Cool

This is so interesting and cool. I wonder what are the advantages of slab moulds versus slip cast moulds? Also I wonder if it would be possible to make a mould of the negative then make the slab mould in plaster instead if that makes sense, so it's still a mould for slabs but it's in plaster.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

The advantage is mostly up front time cost and lack of mess, though mostly it's just an alternative for those unable or unwilling to do slip casting! You absolutely could use 3D prints to make plaster moulds for slab building, but it kinda takes away a big chunk of the advantages of this method. At that point, you might as well slip cast! 😊 But of course, it's just a matter of preference!

Thanks, Katz, Sub, just getting into clay.

@katzcreates

3 ай бұрын

Brilliant! And good timing. There will be more future ceramics based projects!

wow!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

😊😊😊

@the.spin.doctor

5 ай бұрын

@@katzcreates I want to try it but it seems like a mess!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Clay is always a little bit messy, it's true. 😂 But this technique is way less messy than a lot of alternatives! You might just need to embrace the mess. 😁

After watching this, I wonder if a person can print a slip mold using foaming pla. But design the mold that had internal channels for a forced air flow source over the molds internal walls to promote drying. I suppose that the question really is, is foaming PLA porous enough to allow the water to dry out to slip cast with (my guess is much slower than plaster). Lastly, does the rough texture created by the foaming walls cause negative results i.e. too much surface area for the clay to hold on to?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

I'm not actually sure if foaming PLA is actually porous in a way that would be useful for this sort of thing. Plaster actively draws water out of the clay, and I don't think foaming PLA would function in the same way. That said, I did not try this, so it is potentially worth experimenting with! If you do, I'd love to hear what your findings are!

@jonjessen

5 ай бұрын

It sadly has closed cells, so it will not make a difference. But the idea is valid.

@dhodowd

5 ай бұрын

I'm thinking of the fact that we dry our filament before printing. Is there any way that a filament dryer can get involved?

@evanbarnes9984

5 ай бұрын

It sounds kind of like you're describing vacuum casting, in a way!

what about making 3d printed molds to make the plaster molds for slipcasting, more crazy designs?

@SamAlderDesign

5 ай бұрын

I’m doing this right now for a vase design. The surface pattern ended up requiring a five side mould with a bottom mould to form the dome in the middle of the foot. The major difficulty I ran into was that 3D printers can leave you with undercuts between layer lines due to the way the nozzle generally blobs plastic down. I had a piece stick in the mould until I realized that I needed to use a soldering iron with a flat tip to smooth down any layer lines that were within 5 degrees of vertical to garantuee there were no undercuts between layer lines.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

That's absolutely a thing already that people do. :) It works really well! I wanted to try something different since that had been done before.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Oooh, do you have any photos of the results of this? I'd love to see it!

Wow you're awesome! Wondering if you have a preferred process to make your keys for the mold. I have seen a few videos on just this and was wondering if you did a new process or just had an adapted method and maybe reference for that. Going to try a collaboration with my ceramic wizard wife. Thanks!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

No preferred method as of yet, in fact, I think I need a better one! I found my keys to be a little meh (either too tight or too loose) so I feel like that part of the model could definitely be better. And a collab on this sounds perfect! :D I hope I can see what you come up with!

@joshlikessurfing

5 ай бұрын

@@katzcreates Will share if we have a successful part! I found this one pin video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqObm7ulfdefhbg.htmlsi=xhL9sHMdr_7CmI90

@joshlikessurfing

5 ай бұрын

and last one, grip pins kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJhru9unZpS-h7Q.htmlsi=qiCpYrrG9MVHaptX

I just barely got into 3D printing in 2015 so I'm still learning a lot. Actually, I'm re-learning a lot after taking almost a decade away from art and crafting and just got my own 3D printer a few months ago. I'm re-learning the process of design and modeling in CAD and blender to make jewelry, but I hadn't really considered pottery beyond the tools I've already printed. Since I have an "art lab" near me, I've been delving back into jewelry casting using my 3D prints as a lost wax for investment casting, but they also have a kiln for use. Slab molds opens up a host of new ideas, especially since I've only been using silicone slab molds for casting dice in resin because... I'm a nerd. Sorry for the little paragraph, but I gotta ask... You couldn't possibly be the same Allie I knew from AiH?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

I absolutely DID go to AIH way back in the day! 😀 So I probably am indeed the very same Allie you knew! That's amazing!!

Here's an idea. Design the mold so it has air gaps, so you can push a stream of warm air through it, drying the clay. That would require materials such as ABS which are heat resistant.

This is really cool, thanks for sharing Ali! The tips about mould making are going to be really useful for me, i'm just getting into resin mould making right now. :)

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Perfect! They will definitely be helpful there as well! 😁

do you use mold release or would that effect the final outcome to much?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

The cornflower is the mould release! 😊 It works like a charm and is essential to the process!

This is great! I was a ceramic engineer in undergrad, and slip casting was not my friend! Is this the British corn flour=cornstarch, or corn flour like we'd have in the US that's distinct?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Cornstarch! 😁 Not the gritty stuff, but the really fine white stuff! And I agree, slip casting is a challenging beast! I liked this as an alternative and I hope you find it as useful as I did! 🥰

I'm curious, have you tried wood filament? I wonder if it would absorb more water to make the process faster

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

I haven't! But I assume that it's still closed pores as its still mostly plastic in wood filament. But I would be curious about the results!

@rache5399

5 ай бұрын

​​​@katzcreates or maybe even a more hygroscopic filament like petg pr even nylon! Ofc this may decrease the life of the mold, but would be interesting to try!

Must have been fun finding a chromakey that didn't trigger on your tails. :) Hope you had fun at SMRRF!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Hah! It totally did. 🤣 I just fixed it by hand. Lesson learned for next time!

Does the type of clay affect how well this works? Like is porcelain better suited than earthenware?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

The type of clay will have an effect, in the same way that different kinds of clay are better suited for different building methods! I feel like a heavily grogged clay may be a bit difficult, but on the other hand, porcelain can be quite delicate and cracks more easily on drying. A smooth stoneware is a good place to start!

cool, but why you don't use clay liquide inside mold ?

@katzcreates

6 күн бұрын

That's an entirely different process with different steps and level of difficulty. I wanted to do something different.

So cool. You say .6 mm nozzles are your friend. But why? Is it the speed of the print?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Yes! 0.6mm nozzles speed up a print considerably because they can deposit more plastic in a single pass, but they're still small enough to be able to do 0.2mm layers with. A really good balance nozzle IMHO! 😊

I'm calling shenanigans! I suspect that mustache may be at least partially fake.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

How dare you! My moustache is absolutely 100% definitely completely real fake moustache! 😂

Ngl, I feel like the tache needs to be a regular tging :D

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Only if I can get one that doesn't fall off while I'm talking. 😂

@MiggyManMike

5 ай бұрын

​@@katzcreates I mean i do have one that stays on but the maintenance is a pain :p

Nice! You can also use your mold pieces as positives and cast them out of plaster. Once you've demolded the plaster pieces, you can use them for slip casting. I boil my mold pieces to release the plastic from the plaster - a bit messy but it works out. Your method is faster but harder to make the castings. Mine takes longer and is really confusing during the modeling (you're designing molds for molds), but the castings are really simple. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJWk1qhqc8fMqbw.html

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Ah yes! I have done this method as well using my own broken knee bones as the positive. :D It works great! kzread.infoXwB1BOitsTk?feature=share

@fluffycritter

5 ай бұрын

Oh heck that's an amazing idea

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hold up. the english arts program?? I thought you were american!

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

I'm American and also British! I live in the UK. 😊

@OhPervyOne

5 ай бұрын

Expat or dual citizenship @@katzcreates?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Both! 😊

Katz means cat in German. Do what u want with that information.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

I am aware. 😂 It's also my real surname!

Direct copy of @hammerlyceramics process that he has been mastering since more than 5 years. This is nothing new. Stop this fakery.

@tofuninja5489

5 ай бұрын

Didn't know there's only one ceramic person we're all supposed to follow. Guess there's no point in ever following other KZreadrs for any content because everything is old and derivative. Let me unfollow Diresta, This Old Tony and Mathias Wandel because all wood and tool techniques were discovered thousands of years ago.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

Unless I am mistaken, the technique that Hammerly Ceramics uses is one that creates a mould shape with 3D printing to use for making a master mould from silicone, which is then used to create a plaster mould to be used for slip casting. The technique I'm showing in this video also uses 3D printing to create a mould shape, but doesn't involve post processing the mould, silicone, or plaster, and isn't meant for slip casting at all. It's explicitly for slab built ceramics, a method that is quite drastically different from slip casting. Unless HC also developed a technique for making forms for slab building the works in the same way this does, I'm not sure I understand how this is a direct copy of what he's done. Both use 3D printing as a tool for augmenting ceramics, but the approaches are quite different. But, just to be clear, I am not and did not at any point claim to be the person to come up with using 3D printing for ceramics. I may not even be the first person to create 3D printed forms for slab building. However, when I could not find examples of this being done, I thought it something worth pursuing and exploring, and that's exactly what I did. Whether or not I'm the first person to do it doesn't take away from the usefulness of a resource that inspires and educates people to be creative.

@BetaOp9

5 ай бұрын

Go away, Grandpa. Take your meds.

Ok it s like a different aproach. Very complicated one by the way.

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

It very much is a different approach! I'm not sure it's more complicated than others, but it's an alternative to others out there. :)

Thank god for fusion 360

Interesting idea, but it seems to me that it's a lot slower and a lot more faffing around compared to slip casting. Why not just 3d print the finished piece, or moulds for a plaster mould, then make moulds and slip cast as usual?

@katzcreates

5 ай бұрын

If you're experienced with slip casting, yea, it's slower. But for anyone not experienced with slip casting, when you factor in all the work to get to the point of having a usable plaster mould and it's finally time to cast... It's definitely not slower. It's less optimised for rapid mass production for sure, but it's a LOT less front loaded than slip casting. Regardless, it's definitely not meant to be a replacement! Just an alternative. 😊