Pierced vase mold

Slip-cast a pierced vase. A plaster mold and a printed core that casts the holes. Turn the knob to open the core, pour, drain, turn it back and lift it out.

Bring: Round vases, straight-sided or gently curved, with a rim about 104 mm across or more as cast.

How it works

1. Bring a model: upload your own STL, OBJ, GLB, PLY or 3MF, or start from an example. It is checked and, if it needs it, repaired.
2. Pick the pieces: the mold is planned on the model, with where it would lock and where air would be caught, then generated.
3. Get the print files: the cases are cut to fit your printer bed, with pins so they line up, and laid out on plates.
4. Print the cases and pour: the pour sheet says how much plaster or silicone to mix, and in what order to work.

Open the pierced vase mold tool, or start from an example.

The other tools

• Slip-cast mold: Slip-cast a vessel or a figure. A plaster mold in pieces. Pour in liquid clay, wait for the wall to build, pour the rest back out.
• Press mold: Press tiles, sprigs and dishes. A plaster mold you press soft clay into: one open piece, or pieces that close on each other.
• Hump mold: Drape a dish over a hump. A plaster hump on a plinth. Roll a slab, drape it over, trim it along the line.
• Silicone mold: Cast resin, plaster, wax or soap. A printed box you fill with silicone. The set silicone is the mold: it stretches off shapes plaster would lock.