How to Remove Your Polymer Clay Bowl from its Mold

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. Today we're going to make a polymer clay bowl. In this next step, we're going to unattach the bowl from the mold. So you want to be really really careful when you're doing this and you want to make sure the bowl is completely dry and completely cooled down. You don't want it to be warm, reason being, when a fima is warm it is still very pliable and it's more likely to break. So you want to let it cool down. Once it's completely cooled down you can take a butter knife and test around the edges and see how stuck it is on the mold. Hopefully, if you've oiled down your mold, it's not going to be too stuck. You can start to push through, pushing the bottom, trying to push the mold out and sometimes it may seem like it's stuck and it may be a small little piece at the top rim. So whenever you feel tension just go inspect the area and see what it is. There we go. The mold is out. We have our completed polymer bowl."