Hump Mold Ceramics

Hump molds are very easy to work with and provide great results just press a slab of wet clay over the mold.

Hump mold ceramics.

Because plaster is highly absorbent water will be removed from the clay and the slab will be easily released. The hump mold is made upside down and solid later it will be turned upright and hollowed out. All you do is create a prototype form that you can slump a slab of clay into or over bisque fire it and presto. With a hump mold the clay is draped over the mold creating a convex shape.

Hump molds made of pottery plaster these hump molds also called drape molds are ideal for home studios pottery studios and classrooms. Hump molds are a great way to easily make a wide variety of pottery pieces from ceramic bowls and cups to platters vases and more. Hump molds make it quick and easy for production potters to turn out massive numbers of nearly identical pieces. Use your favorite clay body with hump molds.

The mold will be used to make the bottom quarter of the final bowl form that will then be built up to the finished shape and height with coils. Hump molds are also called drape molds because you drape the clay over the mold to produce the pottery. Hump molds give the advantage of adding feet and handles to the outer surface of the piece. A simple slab of clay hand formed or by a slab roller typically 1 4 thick is laid draped across the surface of the mold and pressed into shape.

Use a hump mold when adding feet handles or other embellishments to the outside of the shape. Our hump molds are convex plaster forms that provide a template for slab work. You then have a durable hump mold you can use over and over without even touching a bag of pottery plaster. Use is pretty simple.

Making the hump mold begin by making a clay mold that will be used to drape a slab over. Place the bat adapter on the wheelhead place your choice of molds on the bat adapter and you re ready to work. Earthenware stoneware or porcelain. Making your own bisque slump or hump molds is probably the easiest and most accessible way to get into mold making in ceramics.

Because the plaster absorbs water this helps the slab to dry out a bit and separate from the mold. Hump molds the clay is draped over the mold creating a convex shape and used when you want to add feet handles or other embellishments to the outside of the shape. The hump molds carried here at the ceramic shop are convex plaster forms intended for this purpose providing a template for slab work. Slump molds the clay slumps or sags down creating a concave shape and are used when you want to add embellishments to the inside of the shape or around the lip.