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What can I use for resin molds?

Could I use some really slow drying clay? I pour the resin into my sculpted mold, and then when the resin dries, I pull the clay off? I can't buy pre-made molds :92;

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In french we call it epoxy but I know peoples who do their jewelry in to directly their varnish. I still think they call it resin but it comes in two liquids or pastes in wich they flood their pieces inside of a mold. You have to be certain if you work that way to wear a mask in a very aerate place and to already have covered your molds with petrolum jelly or soap equivalent. There is no way to work that way in a way you would with putty, plasticine or clay. For that you have to use FIMO or DAS. Fimo is some plastic/resin paste that looks like colored clay and has to be absolutely baked because as times pass the liquid base of that resin gets out of it and becomes toxic also. DAS is much less toxic but seems based on paper on the feel and needs extra varnish or something solid in it to hold it toghether.
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