Tip for you from a 20 year concrete worker: Wet the burlap first. Putting it in dry sucks moisture from the mortar, making it cure faster. The slower it cures, the stronger it'll be. That's why we cover slabs with wet burlap. ;-)
I love your tutorials. You have taught me many awesome tricks to haunt my house. If you are interested, I, I have a tip for you on this project. To help remove the bubbles, do a small thinner batch of concrete and coat the mold first. Then pour in your mixture on top of the thinner layer. That way you will get your details and your strength. Thanks for all the lessons. Keep on creeping on, brother. G
I've made some using the plastic skulls as a mold. I made sure to purchase the concrete made for extreme heat. If I could post a photo on here I would. Thanks for the great videos
Try spraying your mold with a light coat of pam cooking spray , I saw this idea on the pathway molds to make for your yard, it makes the concrete easier to release from the mold love your ideas !!
Thanks for the tip! I got on the comments just to see if somebody suggested that lol. I'm going to try to make some of these and I will definitely try it with some cooking spray 💀
I just watched your skull making tutorial using milk jugs, and followed with this one. Your videos are one of the best I've seen with details... materials, how to actually get started, how to do the squishy stuff, what to look out for and what if it does anyway and then what. Your presentation is excellent - thank you!
Looks awesome and I love the versatility. When I try this, I am going to add styrofoam beads to reduce the weight for skulls to hang on a wall or make a skull tower. Thanks for the great videos!
I've made a product called hypertufa (sp?). Basically add peat moss to the mortar It is very light and behaves like re-bar. Run a slip coat of thin mortar first for the details like Glance302 suggested.
A little word of advice since I am in concrete manufacturing, you should prep your plastic molds with release oil though I don't believe you can buy it in small quantities you could try pam cooking spray or I'd be willing to send you a gal of form release which you can use a garden sprayer or a good quality spray bottle to apply.
Love it! In art class we used a water downed soap paste and brushed it on the mold to assist with removal from the mold. For concrete there is a special "bond breaker" chemical they sell to allow it to break nice and clean from the mold. That stuff stinks a bit, and i imagine it's overkill for what your doing. 😉
I have been watching quite a few of your videos & I am impressed at how talented you are. I'm not into the horror stuff but I have to say, to actually watch you make these things is fascinating . Thank you for sharing.
I just love all the sp00ky stuff you make and when I have finished building my cabin/workshop in Scotland I'm going to freak my little sister out (she's not a big RUclips watcher...she's pretty busy looking after our horses and the woods we inherited. ...I'm gonna tell her I found a fairy/sprite thing and I am going to place some concrete skulls around the path to my cabin...It is going to hilarious
I love this! Is there any way to use a technique like this to make your own Lawn Gargoyle? I would dearly love to make my own cement Lawn Gargoyle. Love your channel!
Hey that's pretty cool idea with the milk jugs and making the skulls and then pouring concrete and making concrete molds that's a really neat idea like the video is really cool
Doesn't much matter for the ones that are just faces, but if you're doing a whole skull you can lighten the weight of it by mixing in styrofoam beans (bean bag filler). Obviously not as strong, but strong enough for decoration, and a good deal lighter.
Thanks and yes, I've see a few dioramas that were awesome. I was thinking of trying to do one in one of those fake pumpkins and like you said, do a graveyard and add perhaps some jackolanterns and scarecrows. Cheers, ET
Amazing just what i needed, to use the skull for the mould, i was useing a cast then re-cast and mother mold then two peace cast........ ect, so simple just use the plastic skull for the mould, mind blown
Dear ET. Thanks for your entertaining tutorial. You are great to listen to and i find you sooo funny. Apologies if you are being serious but you defo bring me some smiles. :) :) i was watching a video on a mysterious cruise murder/ mystery one minute then all of a sudden , the next thing i know is im watching you make fantastic artwork. ( one of your subscribers had made a comment on the cruise vid and i found this vid through the channels they subscribe to. Yay!!
I just happened to find this video, this is a great idea, interest of concrete have you tried spray foam? I have a few cases of them [foam] going to try it, of I over spray I can sand it, thanks for the tutorial...
I have been using the baking spray from rhe Dollar Tree to lube the inside of my cement planters I'm making. Also there are much cheaper and easier mixes to use with less weight for hanging. The finish has a more organic look too. Hypertufa and papercrete are the two I use. You can use these mixes in molds and they can be carved and sanded or any other thing you may want to do to enhance the organic look. For hypertufa I use 1 part portland cement 1 part coconut coir or peat moss 1part perlite. Papercrete is slightly different using 3parts wet paper pulp/mush 1 part builders sand 1 part portland cement. I made head planters and potted them with monkey grass or fern for hair
Oldladytofast- I never heard of any of that stuff but you got my attention with cheaper ;) with 4 kids I wanna do crafts but not spend that much on materials but what I’m getting to is where would I find some of this stuff? Thanks for your time
Holosexual Hot I belong to a Facebook group called Papercrete Crafting Group. The instructions are in the group files and the biggest expense is a bag of Portland Cement , Sand or Perlite, and scrap paper. Cement is around $7 for a huge bag. (Enough to share with a friend.) For hypertufa and papercrete there are tons of tutorials on RUclips
Take a cue from champagne bottle makers , that little hollowed out area in the bottom of the bottles make them stronger to the pressure of the liquid . Add a wad of paper towels or newspapers to make that hollow . Saves some material and quickens drying too
Could you cover the outside of your skull with a heavy coat of Vaseline put it in liquid concrete, fill skull with sand, then wait for it to dry to make your own skull casting mold? Love your videos they are very good and get the creative juices flowing.
Hi there, I haven't tried that, but I guess that would work as long as the skull doesn't get stuck in there. If it does, the same thing will happen to the casts...I guess. I'm going to try a plaster mold in a later video. Cheers, ET
OH ... I have a question about the skull milk jug mold. How should I if I want to seal it up to hold liquid. Can you melt the back of the skull jug back together so it won't leak?
You could duck tape it.. use lots of duck tape. Just a small space to add cement. It will be harder to get skull out. You may trash the mold removing it.. place it somewhere where it will get air movement to cure. The full size dollar store skill use it with smaller pour hole..... I would think it would work. But getting it our may make you cuss... lol
I think so, just didn't want to mess up the concrete since I didn't know how it would react. With an oily concrete I would be hard to paint. Cheers, ET
Hey man loved this video. I recently learned to make milk jug skulls and thought “could I use them as a concrete mold?” and apparently the answer is YES. How do I do the full head with the dollar store skull as a mold? I’d love to see a video on that and I subscribed so I can keep up with your videos.
i heard you can take moss put it ina blender, add milk and blend.. Pour over your object and it should grow. I haven't tried but it might be worth trying for your pieces.
Yes, that one just popped out really easily. I'll be using that mold to make the sconces. Researching how to add a holder for a flameless votive. Thanks! ET
I have a lovely cake mole (two pieces) for skulls. I don't want to ruin it for making cakes, Do you think using it with a milk jug would ruin it if I spray it with vegetable oil before I put the milk jug in?
Hey there, I'm not sure if that would work, I haven't tried that, but I wouldn't risk my cake mold. Also, I'm not sure what chemicals milk jug plastic would release if you heat it up. I'd definitely use something more disposable that won't be used around food. Does that make sense? Cheers, ET
I think people who do sculpting use a type of liquid rubber when they want to make a reproduction ... Its been a long long time since I made one of those rubber molds ( like over 20 years) ... So I'm not sure if its still sold anywhere or if there are better products out there .. Years ago in high school art class we were doing mold making and I made a "death mask " and I had to make " copies " of it .. I took the original ,coated it with layers of some sort of liquid rubber .. When it was dry we had to peel this rubber mold off ..coat the inside with grease so nothing would stick and then poured plaster into it ,let it dry then popped it out and made more. ... I probably made 20 of them ... Ask around at an art supply place or somewhere with sculpting supplies ..wish I could be nore helpful with what the product actually was .. Ed maybe you could use the liquid rubber stuff to make a skull mold .. I don't see why it wouldn't work with concrete ...
Roxanne Dillie maybe ask around at an artists supply place for a product like a liquid rubber ... Years ago I made a mask and used some sort of liquid rubber ...dried and was flexible which made it easier to get the plaster mask out afterward ... Sorry I cannot remember the name of the product ... Its been years since I've used it ..
Hi there, I used regular cement (it's mixed with sand). They sell 10 lb bags at home improvement stores. But, you can use any kind really. The one with gravel won't be so smooth though. Cheers, ET
Hi I have learned a lot with the things that u make I started making zombie head in serment and the have some weight how much you you charge if u made them to sell them if u need photo of them I will send would like to see has I have no idea what I should charge as I have only started selling but don't want to under charge
Yes, my wife found on clearance at Michael's a few years ago. She was going to upholster some creepy chairs, but never did...so I borrowed it to cover that giant mirror. Cheers, ET
Hi there, I asked for regular cement plus sand mix, for laying rocks or brick. But most mortar mixes would work. Use high temp concrete )for fireplaces) if you want to use these skulls for a fire pit. Cheers, ET
Oh thank you, I should have clarified that I would be using this for a gas fire pit (they would stay in the fire pit for an extended period of time, with varying temperatures). Do you know what the high temperature concrete is called? I was thinking of stopping at Home Depot to see what they recommended. Also found Rutland Castable Refractory Cement that sounds like the right stuff. Thoughts?
Your amazing but I bet your wife cringes every time you walk in her kitchen. Suggestions : Go to the dollar tree and get yourself some kitchen ware you can keep in your craft room like a plastic ladle, big serving spoon, etc.. and a couple of cheap buckets, one to keep some water in to soak your ladles, spoons , etc after use and a small bucket type container that will hold your milk jug mold steady when you pour and let it set that way you do not have to hold the jug mold when filling it up. Question...do they make a silicone mold release spray you can use in your molds ? I really enjoy your videos, thank you so much for sharing.
I'm glad she's game for "most" things...I ask first nowadays. I almost made some eyeball with a vintage melonballer. Thanks for watching and for the cool comments! Cheers, ET
Tip for you from a 20 year concrete worker:
Wet the burlap first. Putting it in dry sucks moisture from the mortar, making it cure faster. The slower it cures, the stronger it'll be. That's why we cover slabs with wet burlap. ;-)
Excellent, thanks for the tip!!
Cheers,
ET
I love your tutorials. You have taught me many awesome tricks to haunt my house. If you are interested, I, I have a tip for you on this project. To help remove the bubbles, do a small thinner batch of concrete and coat the mold first. Then pour in your mixture on top of the thinner layer. That way you will get your details and your strength.
Thanks for all the lessons.
Keep on creeping on, brother.
G
Cool, that's a great idea. I'll be trying that on my next concrete skulls!
Thanks!
ET
They sell fire pit skulls for around $100 per skull, I’m going to make yours for next to nothing. Thanks for the tutorial!!!
Thanks!
This is what brought me here!! The over-priced fire pit skulls!
You are AWESOME!!! THANK YOU
I've made some using the plastic skulls as a mold. I made sure to purchase the concrete made for extreme heat. If I could post a photo on here I would. Thanks for the great videos
Try spraying your mold with a light coat of pam cooking spray , I saw this idea on the pathway molds to make for your yard, it makes the concrete easier to release from the mold love your ideas !!
Thanks for the tip! I got on the comments just to see if somebody suggested that lol. I'm going to try to make some of these and I will definitely try it with some cooking spray 💀
I just watched your skull making tutorial using milk jugs, and followed with this one. Your videos are one of the best I've seen with details... materials, how to actually get started, how to do the squishy stuff, what to look out for and what if it does anyway and then what. Your presentation is excellent
- thank you!
I'm a Halloween fanatic and plan on making a lot of stuff. Thank you for creating these videos, I can't wait to watch more of them.
Hi there Halloween fanatic! Thanks for watching!!
Cheers,
ET
At the dollar store you can buy some nice silicone spoons and spatulas. They can be washed and reused.
So did you get in trouble with the wife over her paper towel holder ?!? Lol.
Well, I ended up buying her a new one...but I kept the old one, so I now have a skull holder!
Cheers,
ET
These look great! I like how they look on the lawn! Very spooky!
Thanks!
Looks awesome and I love the versatility. When I try this, I am going to add styrofoam beads to reduce the weight for skulls to hang on a wall or make a skull tower. Thanks for the great videos!
I've made a product called hypertufa (sp?). Basically add peat moss to the mortar It is very light and behaves like re-bar. Run a slip coat of thin mortar first for the details like Glance302 suggested.
If u spray a little cooking oil spray and wipe away excess it would be easy to remove. Awesome tutorial!
A little word of advice since I am in concrete manufacturing, you should prep your plastic molds with release oil though I don't believe you can buy it in small quantities you could try pam cooking spray or I'd be willing to send you a gal of form release which you can use a garden sprayer or a good quality spray bottle to apply.
I used to make concrete dog bowls. try spraying a very thin layer of wd-40 in the plastic first. look great .
Cool! Thanks for the tip!
Does concrete have lime in it? Is it safe for having consumables in it ?
Wow such a great idea! I really want to make a fire pit with skulls around it now. Those would also look cool painted
I'd love to do a fire pit full of skulls too. They sell high heat concrete made for fireplaces. That should work on your fire pit.
cheers,
ET
I just recently saw the firepit skulls and cant wait to make my own!
Thank you for being brilliant!
Love it!
In art class we used a water downed soap paste and brushed it on the mold to assist with removal from the mold.
For concrete there is a special "bond breaker" chemical they sell to allow it to break nice and clean from the mold.
That stuff stinks a bit, and i imagine it's overkill for what your doing. 😉
I have been watching quite a few of your videos & I am impressed at how talented you are. I'm not into the horror stuff but I have to say, to actually watch you make these things is fascinating . Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the great idea..my family is huge into anything Halloween so we will make these for sure.
Thanks for this tutorial. My kids will love making these
I just love all the sp00ky stuff you make and when I have finished building my cabin/workshop in Scotland I'm going to freak my little sister out (she's not a big RUclips watcher...she's pretty busy looking after our horses and the woods we inherited. ...I'm gonna tell her I found a fairy/sprite thing and I am going to place some concrete skulls around the path to my cabin...It is going to hilarious
I love this! Is there any way to use a technique like this to make your own Lawn Gargoyle? I would dearly love to make my own cement Lawn Gargoyle. Love your channel!
Hey man, i love all of your stuff & i've always loved hollween & everything about it. Keek em coming man, ya videos. 😁.
Hey that's pretty cool idea with the milk jugs and making the skulls and then pouring concrete and making concrete molds that's a really neat idea like the video is really cool
You should make silicone molds of the concrete skulls that you just made, that way you will have a mold that you can reuse
The skulls look great !
Doesn't much matter for the ones that are just faces, but if you're doing a whole skull you can lighten the weight of it by mixing in styrofoam beans (bean bag filler). Obviously not as strong, but strong enough for decoration, and a good deal lighter.
Bonjour...I just found your channel today and I love this tutorial, will be following you for sure...
Thank you!
Totally awesome video you have some great ideas love to watch your Halloween videos I learn a lot thanks again for sharing
So glad I stumbled onto your site. Just in time for halloween too. Love the tutorials. Thanks for sharing :)
Beautiful! Thanks for the video!
That's so interesting seeing you do cement skulls I'm gonna see about doing one. .😎
would love to take this idea and make concrete stepping stones to make a pathway stones or a patio, fire pit. etc
Cool project buddy. Thanks for the video
Great project ET! Have you ever done small scale dioramas? Imagine how cool a miniature grave yard would be!
Thanks and yes, I've see a few dioramas that were awesome. I was thinking of trying to do one in one of those fake pumpkins and like you said, do a graveyard and add perhaps some jackolanterns and scarecrows.
Cheers,
ET
Getting ready to give this a shot, love your videos!
Wow these look great 😮
Cool. Thanks man! Enjoyable videos.
Oooh thank you! I'll have to see if my dollar tree has plastic skulls. That should work great for sugar skulls!
Amazing just what i needed, to use the skull for the mould, i was useing a cast then re-cast and mother mold then two peace cast........ ect, so simple just use the plastic skull for the mould, mind blown
Thanks!!
Dear ET. Thanks for your entertaining tutorial. You are great to listen to and i find you sooo funny. Apologies if you are being serious but you defo bring me some smiles. :) :) i was watching a video on a mysterious cruise murder/ mystery one minute then all of a sudden , the next thing i know is im watching you make fantastic artwork. ( one of your subscribers had made a comment on the cruise vid and i found this vid through the channels they subscribe to. Yay!!
Thank you! I’m glad you are enjoying the channel!
New subscriber , wow I love your work , great tutorials !
Thanks you!
those are perfect. very nice work!
Thanks!
They came out awesome. 👍😀
Thanks!!
Monster tutorials you never let me down! Im totally make "the pit to hell!" (Fire pit).
Tag me if you do. I’d love to see how it turns out!
Great ideas. You could add concrete dye to the mortar mix...they have many colors, ie, black, maroon, tan, brown.
I just happened to find this video, this is a great idea, interest of concrete have you tried spray foam? I have a few cases of them [foam] going to try it, of I over spray I can sand it, thanks for the tutorial...
You can make 2 part concrete halves and glue them together when they are done, that way you can gave a rounded skull in the back.
really did a guuud job mister tnku
These look great
perhaps rubbing some vaseline around the inside of the mould before you pour in the concrete will help it release easier :)
I do concrete work for a living use cooking spray to release the molds
I have been using the baking spray from rhe Dollar Tree to lube the inside of my cement planters I'm making. Also there are much cheaper and easier mixes to use with less weight for hanging. The finish has a more organic look too. Hypertufa and papercrete are the two I use. You can use these mixes in molds and they can be carved and sanded or any other thing you may want to do to enhance the organic look. For hypertufa I use
1 part portland cement
1 part coconut coir or peat moss
1part perlite.
Papercrete is slightly different using 3parts wet paper pulp/mush
1 part builders sand
1 part portland cement.
I made head planters and potted them with monkey grass or fern for hair
Oldladytofast- I never heard of any of that stuff but you got my attention with cheaper ;) with 4 kids I wanna do crafts but not spend that much on materials but what I’m getting to is where would I find some of this stuff? Thanks for your time
Holosexual Hot I belong to a Facebook group called Papercrete Crafting Group. The instructions are in the group files and the biggest expense is a bag of Portland Cement , Sand or Perlite, and scrap paper. Cement is around $7 for a huge bag. (Enough to share with a friend.)
For hypertufa and papercrete there are tons of tutorials on RUclips
Great tutorial
Love what you do ide like to see you make a rollercoaster frop popsickle sticks that would be epic hope u take this challenge up
Take a cue from champagne bottle makers , that little hollowed out area in the bottom of the bottles make them stronger to the pressure of the liquid . Add a wad of paper towels or newspapers to make that hollow .
Saves some material and quickens drying too
Awesome video
Could you cover the outside of your skull with a heavy coat of Vaseline put it in liquid concrete, fill skull with sand, then wait for it to dry to make your own skull casting mold? Love your videos they are very good and get the creative juices flowing.
Hi there, I haven't tried that, but I guess that would work as long as the skull doesn't get stuck in there. If it does, the same thing will happen to the casts...I guess. I'm going to try a plaster mold in a later video.
Cheers,
ET
OH ... I have a question about the skull milk jug mold. How should I if I want to seal it up to hold liquid. Can you melt the back of the skull jug back together so it won't leak?
You could duck tape it.. use lots of duck tape. Just a small space to add cement. It will be harder to get skull out. You may trash the mold removing it.. place it somewhere where it will get air movement to cure. The full size dollar store skill use it with smaller pour hole..... I would think it would work. But getting it our may make you cuss... lol
I wonder if you spray the molds with some cooking spray if the skulls will come out easier after they cure?
LOL. It looks like your dog skeleton was passing ghost gas.
wondering where maybe to get sheet plastic for doing larger molds like the giant skull at home depot , heat and form it like the milk jug skull ?
I 🖤 that burlap with crows on it did you make that too!!👍
Is it possible to use Vaseline or cooking oil in the mold to help make the concrete not stick so much?
I wonder if you spray the mold with cooking Pam if the molds would release easier.
I think so, just didn't want to mess up the concrete since I didn't know how it would react. With an oily concrete I would be hard to paint.
Cheers,
ET
Is there something you can spray on the milk jug to make them release easier?
I wonder if you can use several of these in a fire pit for gorey effect?
you should soak the burlap first, the water will draw the cement to the fibers, and it will make a much stronger bond
Thanks for the tip!!
If you tap or vibrate the mold, it should take care of the bubbles.
Hey man loved this video. I recently learned to make milk jug skulls and thought “could I use them as a concrete mold?” and apparently the answer is YES. How do I do the full head with the dollar store skull as a mold? I’d love to see a video on that and I subscribed so I can keep up with your videos.
Wouldn't coating the inside of the molds with Vaseline make extraction easier?
make a bunch an put them in the ground before you move out to give the next person a lovely scare lol.
i heard you can take moss put it ina blender, add milk and blend.. Pour over your object and it should grow. I haven't tried but it might be worth trying for your pieces.
Yes, I read that too. I haven't tried it, but may do a tutorial about it.
Cheers,
ET
Monster Tutorials
lookn forward to it. love you work. thanks
I WILL be making these! Thanks! I "may" add glitter. :)
Awesome!! so you are able to reuse the one you did the wall skull in?
Yes, that one just popped out really easily. I'll be using that mold to make the sconces. Researching how to add a holder for a flameless votive.
Thanks!
ET
If I ever build a stonewall I'm making a bunch of these for accent pieces
I would really like to see a tutorial on the nun :)
I have a lovely cake mole (two pieces) for skulls. I don't want to ruin it for making cakes, Do you think using it with a milk jug would ruin it if I spray it with vegetable oil before I put the milk jug in?
Hey there,
I'm not sure if that would work, I haven't tried that, but I wouldn't risk my cake mold. Also, I'm not sure what chemicals milk jug plastic would release if you heat it up. I'd definitely use something more disposable that won't be used around food.
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
ET
I think people who do sculpting use a type of liquid rubber when they want to make a reproduction ... Its been a long long time since I made one of those rubber molds ( like over 20 years) ... So I'm not sure if its still sold anywhere or if there are better products out there ..
Years ago in high school art class we were doing mold making and I made a "death mask " and I had to make " copies " of it ..
I took the original ,coated it with layers of some sort of liquid rubber .. When it was dry we had to peel this rubber mold off ..coat the inside with grease so nothing would stick and then poured plaster into it ,let it dry then popped it out and made more. ... I probably made 20 of them ... Ask around at an art supply place or somewhere with sculpting supplies ..wish I could be nore helpful with what the product actually was ..
Ed maybe you could use the liquid rubber stuff to make a skull mold .. I don't see why it wouldn't work with concrete ...
Roxanne Dillie maybe ask around at an artists supply place for a product like a liquid rubber ... Years ago I made a mask and used some sort of liquid rubber ...dried and was flexible which made it easier to get the plaster mask out afterward ... Sorry I cannot remember the name of the product ... Its been years since I've used it ..
Jackie Marie sounds like food grade silicone for mold making
Is it possible to replace the cement with "expanding foam" when using these great milk jug skull forms? Are they any pros or cons? Thanks again ET.
I think you can, I'll have to test that to confirm. And I will let you know.
Cheers,
ET
pretty cool !
what kind of concrete did you use? i didnt really understand what you said.....sorry
Hi there, I used regular cement (it's mixed with sand). They sell 10 lb bags at home improvement stores. But, you can use any kind really. The one with gravel won't be so smooth though.
Cheers,
ET
I want to live with you for the entire month of october
i would like to see you make a large creepy spider
What kind of cement did you use. Where did you buy it
cool. thumb up
I wondered about coating them..with vegetable oil..
Dude BAD ASS Projects.. Haven't looked at everything yet, was thinking Shrunken heads. @punkrockmerchant
I subbed because I have the exact same skull ring.
Hi I have learned a lot with the things that u make I started making zombie head in serment and the have some weight how much you you charge if u made them to sell them if u need photo of them I will send would like to see has I have no idea what I should charge as I have only started selling but don't want to under charge
Can you make the mummified spider? Like the sprite in the shadow box.
The milk jug skull makes me think of the sculptures of veiled women done in marble.
May I ask, where did you get that lovely crow burlap?
Yes, my wife found on clearance at Michael's a few years ago. She was going to upholster some creepy chairs, but never did...so I borrowed it to cover that giant mirror.
Cheers,
ET
Very interested in anything dealing with werewolves or/and wolfmen
2023. Let’s do this!!
Well Francis nice moustache
Can you provide the name of the mortar mix you used? I want to make sure I purchase the right kind. Thank you!
Hi there, I asked for regular cement plus sand mix, for laying rocks or brick. But most mortar mixes would work. Use high temp concrete )for fireplaces) if you want to use these skulls for a fire pit.
Cheers,
ET
Oh thank you, I should have clarified that I would be using this for a gas fire pit (they would stay in the fire pit for an extended period of time, with varying temperatures). Do you know what the high temperature concrete is called? I was thinking of stopping at Home Depot to see what they recommended. Also found Rutland Castable Refractory Cement that sounds like the right stuff. Thoughts?
Can we meet your wife? She sounds like quite a character too. Happy Halloween!
Pumpkins with wierd jagged teeth and head stones for the garden pleeeeease!!
Spray 'Pam' in the mold beforehand and the mold will release easier.
Your amazing but I bet your wife cringes every time you walk in her kitchen. Suggestions : Go to the dollar tree and get yourself some kitchen ware you can keep in your craft room like a plastic ladle, big serving spoon, etc.. and a couple of cheap buckets, one to keep some water in to soak your ladles, spoons , etc after use and a small bucket type container that will hold your milk jug mold steady when you pour and let it set that way you do not have to hold the jug mold when filling it up. Question...do they make a silicone mold release spray you can use in your molds ? I really enjoy your videos, thank you so much for sharing.
I'm glad she's game for "most" things...I ask first nowadays. I almost made some eyeball with a vintage melonballer.
Thanks for watching and for the cool comments!
Cheers,
ET
AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ♥💀♥
Working with concrete while wearing a GMT takes some balls!
Could you use no stick cooking spray as a mold release?
Yes, that would work, but the concrete will be a bit greasy. You'll have to clean the oil off of it.
Cheers,
ET