Making a Conical Mould.
Channel: Hilary Bravo
Date: 2023-02-08

In another video I made a length of paper mache board that has lots of uses. One of which can be what I am making here. This is the making of the base of a conical shaped mould. You could use it to simply make a bowl if you prefer. As I want to make a series of conical bowls of different sizes and varying cone angles I am starting with this one.
 
I really must apologise beforehand as I made the sections for this video during Lockdown and have only just put them together. There is a section missing where I crumple up the aluminium foil and then smooth it out before wrapping it around the mould - the wrinkled surface helps to hold the Vaseline and the Cling Film on the surface.

My Heating Cabinet doesn't show it's contents at all well but I hope that you get the idea. The Heating Cabinet is a really good idea and fairly simple to make thought my son actually made mine so who am I to say it's a simple project?! You could utilise and old cupboard and put a propagating heater in the base - That would be relatively simple. Plus the shelves do not have to be glass. Though I think that's better.

I am using the following materials: 

Paper Mache Board. Homemade from recycled papers. Could be fairly strong cardboard. Not corrugated.
Aluminium Foil. 
Cling Film. 
Petroleum Jelly. 
Self Adhesive Aluminium Tape. Possibly masking tape.
Paper Mache Pulp. 
Scissors. Optional.

00:00 Lay plates on paper mache board and draw around them.
00:15 Cut out the circles.
01:09 Cut to the centre along the radius. Make a shallow cone and secure with tape.
02:08 Crumple up aluminium foil, smooth it out and wrap around the cone. Add Petroleum Jelly and Cling Film.
03:30 Start applying paper mache pulp.
04:50 Adjusting the thickness and trimming off excess.
05:50 Placing in the Drying Cabinet.