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Nik n lip9/17/2023 ![]() I found it nearly impossible to pull the martini glass and champagne glass out without breaking the stems of the glass. The wax should turn opaque when it dries.Ĭarefully lift the wax out of the molds by gently twisting the clay, and by pulling on the Cling Wrap. My trenches were about 1cm deep and each pour took about 5 minutes to completely dry. ![]() The wax will go in the smaller pot, and it will take about 5-10 minutes to completely melt a 1/4 lb of wax.Īfter the wax melts, pour the wax into each separate mold. once the water starts to boil I put the flame on low and the wax continued to melt. In order to prepare the wax, you will need to place a smaller pot, in a larger pot with about 1" of boiling water (double boiler). The Cling Wrap would very rarely get caught in the wax and it would make the removal process a little more difficult. Unfortunately, this method is not flawless. This worked out pretty well and made lifting the wax out pretty easy. I layered the clay with Cling Wrap as to stop the wax from binding to the clay. Ideally, you want to pour the wax, pop it out, and BAM, you have one side to your glass. This step is fairly easy in principle, but it can get very annoying and tiresome. Let the clay dry for a few hours, it's easier to work with when it hasn't completely hardened. ![]() In order to reduce impressions in the clay, dip the dull end of one of the clay tools into water, and smooth out the edges. While you are carving the shapes, be sure to keep a wet cloth over the clay that you are not working on, smoother wetter clay is much better to work with. Because the martini glass and champagne glass have smaller areas it was harder to make an island big enough to displace the liquid. The larger the island the more fluid there will be. You are basically creating an embossed version of the original shape within the outline of the glass in order to build a pocket for the fluid. Either way works, it's a matter of preference. you can either dig a trench within each bottle to form an island, or you can level out a large 1cm deep shape and add clay to build up an island. Dig up about a centimeter of clay from each bottle. To avoid expanding the shape, you can use one of the molding tools to remove extra clay. After the trench is dug, peel off the paper, and start to push the clay downwards. Using the sharp tipped clay tool I then dug a trench around each template. you won't get great features, but we're talking about candy here, so for $8 you can make hundreds of little molds from a safe and easily workable material.Īfter cutting the glass templates, I placed them onto the clay and pressed inward. I used clay because it's safe and easy to use. I ended up sectioning the clay off into individual pieces, it made popping the clay out easier. The other glasses didn't allow for enough fluid volume and were harder to remove from the clay mold.Īfter printing out the template, I cut the pieces out and placed them atop of a 1"x8"x4" piece of clay. I didn't end up using them all, if you want to mimic the templates I have I recommend using the beer bottle and the beer mug. I lined up a beer glass, mug, a martini glass, a champagne bottle, and a shot glass. If you hold down shift in photoshop image resizing will not get skewed. I figured 3 inches would be a good height for the bottles so I opened up photoshop and made an 8"x3" template of all types of glasses I wanted to use. A car bomb would go in a wax beer mug, a martini would go in a wax martini glass, and so on. ![]() My friend thought it would be cool to use the types of glasses that would normally correspond to the drinks I selected. Patty's day by including an Irish Car Bomb, the other 3 drinks I found from a pretty cool website that listed all "approved St. I started out by picking the types of drinks I wanted, I figured I'd definitely capture the spirit of St. Glue Buttons (don't need them, but it's better than tape) They have EVERYTHING!Ĩlbs of Clay (that includes A LOT of extra) ![]() I got all of my materials from Micheal's Craft Store, if you don't have one near by, you should consider moving. ![]()
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