Mold Making

- A mold is a hollow container used to give shape to molten, hot, or uncured liquid material when it cools hardens or cures.

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106 - bronze age spear tip mold

107 - Athens Mold (Stoa of Attalus Museum)

108 - Sandbox mold for cast iron

Kinds of Mold

- blow molding
- powder metallurgy plus sintering
- compression molding
- expandable bead molding
- extrusion molding
- foam molding
- flat molds
- injection molds
- laminating
- reaction injection molding
- matched mold
- matrix molding
- plastic molding
- pressure plug assist molding
- rotational molding
- transfer molding
- thermoforming
- vacuum forming
- vacuum plug assist molding
- brush on

Flat Molds/ Transfers

109

Industrial Injection Molds

110

Injecting Foam Latex

111

Laminating

manufacturing something by bonding layers of material together

112

Matrix Molding

A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained.

113

Practitioners

- Brian Best
- Barry Best
- James Kernot
- The Schoonrad family
- Carl Lyon
- Rob Freitas