Why I'm Ditching Plaster Of Paris For Good!

My mother ran a plaster Paris shop for many years casting and selling statues and all types of stuff. when painting plaster of Paris it's always best to give it a base coat. ALWAYS! and anytime there's a hole you can just make up a small amount of plaster and fill in the holes and just let it dry again and it's ready to go!!❤

a 10 lb bag of plaster costs about $12 the **ResinCrete is $50 to $60** for 10 lbs

Great video, i have 2 tips as i have been using Pop for a long time, 1st you can add a little bit more water to the powder then what you did, 2nd tip is for the bubbles, if you give a very light spray to the mold with a drop of windows cleaner in water mix, this breaks the surface tension of any bubbles on the surface of the mold hence no holes in the casting. 😊

A small vibrating table will get rid of every bubble in plaster. Dental labs use it everyday so vibrating it while your pouring will get the job done or you could do something like running a drill or power tool against the mold after you pour and watch all the bubbles come out the top. So if the resin crete is pricey then Im gonna stick with plaster

This may be a stupid question, but how “breakable” are those after they fully cure?

Thank you for the video. My personal experience with plaster of Paris is that you can add more water than you did. It can be pretty liquid which will make it much easier to get into your molds.

good video but i think a price comparison would have been good as well.

You can add more water to the plaster. It doesn't make a difference.

Let me guess, resincrete is way more expensive. Being that it takes more powder to water, my assumption will be correct just based on that alone.

Have been very curious about the differences, if any. Thanks so much Steve.

Thank you!

I have reactions to mica powder. However I have found that I can use eyeshadow to color my resin crete. Wish I could send you some of my pictures. Give it a try ❣️❣️

Thanks!

Plaster of Paris becomes gypsum aka wallboard material when heated. Most certainly not the same thing. Thank you Steve for doing as these videos. You can add a bit more water to the plaster of Paris to pour easier it will take a bit longer to cure.

i like the OFF white colour in the plaster paris the most, so pretty♥

Thanks for the experiment!

I absolutely love your videos. I work with PoP alot and were actually saddened by this video. Pouring water over PoP will always make more bubbles and makes alot of clumps. I always pour the powder into the water, let it sit for a minute or two and then stir. Tapping the holder to remove bubble before I pour and then the mold after pouring.

Thanks this was very helpful!

It's funny how just the sound of your voice is already immediately stress relief! Thanks for your videos they really help me reset and relax my brain! :) oh, I would add that while I really deffer to your exceptional experience over my own, I have worked with Plaster of Paris before and the test/comparison didn't seem all that fair as to my eye it was simply a matter of not having enough water in your PoP mix. I always leave the final bit of water in my mixture to either have a thicker or thinner paste depending on my purpose (thicker when sculpting/shaping and thinner when pouring in a mold). So yah adding a little water to make them the same consistency and then testing them would really have me curious of the comparison then. Thanks for the great videos! :)

Great informational video