Studio Accessories

EnvironMolds offers an excellent selection of labor-saving tools, mold making equipment, and consumables for your studio. The supplies category offers consumable items such as gloves, masks, mixing containers, and the like. Whereas, tools list mixers, rasps, calipers, modeling tables, mold knives, and key cutting knives. The equipment category contains vacuum chambers, vacuum pumps, pressure pots, scales, vibrating tables, and other similar products to assist you in perfecting your molds and castings. All well-equipped studios include a vacuum chamber and pressure pot for de-airing rubber and casting resins to eliminate air bubbles.

ArtMolds features on the best values for vacuum chambers, vacuum pumps as well as pressure pots. Be certain to check them out. If your budget is tight consider one of several vibrating tables in lieu of a vacuum chamber. Vibrating your mold rubbers or casting resins lowers the coefficient of friction allowing air to rise to the top. Vibration is not as effective as a vacuum chamber or pressure pot, but is far more effective than no vibration (and less expensive) at all.

Welcome to EnvironMolds Studio Accessories. Here you will find our suggestions of studio accessories for the well-equipped studio. These recommendations are made to save you time as well as to increase the quality of your mold making and casting. We offer a broad selection of quality brand products that are not only reliable but are manufactured to last for many years. In addition to our product recommendations listed here, you will find videos and PDF files that you can download with explanations of how to use these important studio accessories.

The mold making equipment category is really the meat of our studio accessories. In this section, you will find those important items to create professional bubble-free molds and casting. These include vacuum chamber, vacuum pumps as well as pressure pots, also known as pressure chambers. For those artists that do not know the difference between a vacuum chamber and pressure pot, strongly suggest you read more about the differences by clicking on the link as each has a different application. You don’t want to make a purchase unless you know the differences. If you are on a more limited budget, and you wish to minimize the effects of air bubbles in your work, we suggest the use of a vibrating table. Though vibration doesn’t completely remove all air bubbles, it can significantly reduce them, saving you about half or more over the price of a vacuum chamber or pressure pot. You will also find gram scales, turntables, and other time-saving pieces of equipment. However, we can’t recommend enough the plaster trap that can be fixed to the drain under your studio or workshop sink to collect materials such as plaster and prevent a costly plumbing stoppage. It is low priced (less than a plumber’s service call) and easy to install.