Ceramic Mould Making Process

While it was once thought of as cheating using ceramic molds is a technique that is increasing in popularity among potters these days.

Ceramic mould making process. These casting processes are commonly used to make tooling especially drop forging dies but also injection molding dies die casting dies glass molds stamping dies and extrusion dies. It is a combination of plaster mold casting and investment casting. There are two types of ceramic mold casting. Not only does ceramic mold making enable you to repeat a form over and over again it also makes individual forms lose their preciousness which frees you up to experiment more.

The pores in the mold create a capillary pressure because of this the water in the slip is absorbed by the mold. Ceramic mold casting also known ambiguously as ceramic molding is a group of metal casting processes that use ceramics as the mold material. In this excerpt from the march 2019 issue of ceramics monthly jackie head takes you through the plaster mold making process from making a prototype to pouring the plaster mold. The process i developed includes sketching using drafting software making models with mdf then making plaster molds from those models.

In this method ceramic particles are suspended in water an cast into porous plater molds. Ceramic mold making opens up endless potential for creative expression. The forms can then be repeated and each one individualized through surface decoration and glazing. The shaw process and the unicast process.

In order to create these end products the ceramic matter needs to go through the traditional manufacturing process which goes as follows. Slip casting method is used to produce complex shapes.