Why I'm Ditching Plaster Of Paris For Good!

Рет қаралды 23,118

11 ай бұрын

On one side, the seasoned veterans of a traditional material.. On the other side, the newcomer. The clash was fierce, each side vying for dominance, and I couldn't have predicted the outcome. As the battle reached its climax, the shocking results unfolded before me, leaving me in awe of the unexpected victor of the materials. The craft world would never be the same again, forever changed by this monumental duel.
Subscribe to my Instagram here: / stevemcdonaldarts
☕ TO BUY ME A COFFEE. Every contribution is very much appreciated and allows me to keep making regular videos. www.paypal.com/paypalme/SMcDo...
📹 Check Steve McDonald Crafting KZfaq Channel: / @stevemcdonaldcrafting
📬 If you would like to post something to me, please use:
PO Box 277, Newmarket, CB8 1GY, United Kingdom
😍 CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP Check out the perks by clicking the JOIN button on the link below. / @stevemcdonaldartsandc...
✍ My WEBSITE, available here: stevemcdonaldcrafts.com/
💻 As an amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
(USA👍) Here is my amazon store for the USA: www.amazon.com/shop/stevemcdo...
(UK✊) Here is my Amazon Store for the UK: www.amazon.co.uk/shop/stevemc...
Or see the individual links below for the items used in this video:
LINKS FOR MATERIALS USED FOR THE (USA👍), (UK✊) ARE BELOW:
⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
LINKS FOR USA (USA👍Only)
(USA👍) Resin: jdiction.online/?ref=w6l74mbw04
(USA👍) Resincrete: amzn.to/477Dc8e
(USA👍) Plaster Of Paris: amzn.to/3OlWrT6
(USA👍) Skull Mould: amzn.to/45ea8ub
(USA👍) Paints: amzn.to/43Ragyn
(USA👍) Hardness Checking Instrument: amzn.to/3rRF3hw
LINKS FOR UK (UK✊ Only)
(UK✊) Resin: jdiction.online/?ref=w6l74mbw04
(UK✊) Resincrete: amzn.to/44OBTtf
(UK✊) Plaster Of Paris: amzn.to/3DCyTnM
(UK✊) Skull Mould: amzn.to/3DY25WR
(UK✊) Paints: amzn.to/458loYS
(UK✊) Hardness Checking Instrument: amzn.to/3rKodkn
Canada:
ResinCrete: amzn.to/44PJp7t
Why I'm Ditching Plaster Of Paris For Good!
Warning: Important Health and Safety Notice:
Resin is an industrial chemical and as such should always be treated with respect and the manufacturers safety advice taken. Here is a video I have made on how I keep myself safe: • Stop Making Yourself I...

Пікірлер: 78

@bboyias 11 ай бұрын

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!!❤

@DiscentG 3 ай бұрын

What kind of brand of base coat

@bboyias 3 ай бұрын

@@DiscentG white paint (thin coat) or gesso works great!

@richiebricker 10 ай бұрын

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

@giovannacasadio9600 11 ай бұрын

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. 😊

@DeborahOlander 10 ай бұрын

Excellent advice. Especially since plaster of Paris is cheap.

@richiebricker 10 ай бұрын

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

@bobbieboeve6631 11 ай бұрын

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.

@dkquick72 11 ай бұрын

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

@levmania 11 ай бұрын

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

@agomodern 6 ай бұрын

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.

@lechatbotte. 11 ай бұрын

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.

@giovannacasadio9600 11 ай бұрын

Said the same thing 😊

@AStClair-wq4pd 11 ай бұрын

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

@TheBeadedFairy_100 10 ай бұрын

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.

@analgirlxx1826 4 ай бұрын

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

@perrys5954 10 ай бұрын

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! :)

@perrys5954 10 ай бұрын

Oh and I would add, despite my thoughts on getting a better mold from a thinner mixup of PoP I do love how you demonstrate the resincrete stronger and doesn't scratch/flake. I am definitely ordering some with your link right now :)

@galehamby7697 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@peggyheimbrock4941 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@karenlloyd16 11 ай бұрын

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

@melissawagner-wu1980 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the experiment!

@lyli1969 Ай бұрын

I agree with Giovanna. More water will help to get rid of all those cracks. Also some shaking will get rid of the bubbles.

@dcruicks1 11 ай бұрын

Thanks this was very helpful!

@LisaVornhagen 11 ай бұрын

That was really interesting. I was actually kind of curious about that myself. Looks like the Resin Crete is a better choice. Thank you!

@elsyrivera8222 11 ай бұрын

Thank you I was wondering which was better.

@aprildegele1510 11 ай бұрын

In my experience, plaster is more porous, rather like bisque fired clay. Absorbs color, dries fast, and the color is difficult to remove if you make a mistake unless you under-paint it with white in at least 2 coats. Black is exceptionally difficult to remove without a couple of coats of underglaze in white. No underglaze, and the black will NEVER come out. It may look "gone", but fire it and the black will come out. Never worked with the resincrete. But intimately knowing bisque-fired clay (I paint realistic portraits on bisque ... which is SO difficult and you have to do it in one go), I'm going to say that getting great colors that are consistent across different molds of plaster will be difficult. Not only does plaster absorb color and water quickly, the color will pool in the holes and it's difficult to work wet on wet unless you work FAST. I learned that with bisque portraits. Have no experience with resincrete, but it appears that the medium is more forgiving.

@aprildegele1510 11 ай бұрын

You said Newtonian liquid!!! The first time I saw you tap the mold with the plaster I wondered if you knew that's what it was. Now, I have to love you. Can't afford to even buy you a coffee, but I really have to love you because you said Newtonian liquid (however, technically, it's Newtonian Fluid). It didn't surprise me that the resincrete worked better than the plaster. First being bubbles. For the plaster to have worked properly, you needed to vibrate the bubbles up and where the bubbles ended up, I doubt they would have escaped unless you could tilt the mold without losing plaster. Plaster isn't very good for highly detailed tings, especially when those "things" have so many places that air pockets can form. Resincrete is a lot thinner and will fill all of the crannies based on what I saw of the consistency when you poured. I've never worked with it, but I have plaster. I'd choose the thinner, smoother consistency all day.

@cynthiaswain4070 11 ай бұрын

Great informational video

@rebeccamoerno8356 11 ай бұрын

I was wondering because it looks the same, but I have used pop before, and it breaks easy. Thank you for the info.

@mandicoleman7433 11 ай бұрын

Cool 😎

@callyross7873 11 ай бұрын

thank you! very helpful. I've also wondered about knocks and dings, and even dropping Resincrete but been to chicken to test it!

@LISA-gv5yo Ай бұрын

😊😊😊 Tente : Gesso pedra, caucita, hidrofugante, e água! Fica igual a jesmonite....tente....tem vídeos sobre jesmonite caseiro! Pra mim, fica igual e mais barato do que resincreate. As bolhas no gesso acontecem pois você não coloca de pouco em pouco, até sumir a água, e não deixa descansar por uns minutos!

@mackyd955 3 ай бұрын

why did you put so little water in the plaster? I dont have a lot of experience but if i want the plaster to shape well in a mold i make it more watery

@FirebladeCBR 11 ай бұрын

I use plaster of paris quite a lot. You can add more water to it to make it more fluid so it’s easier to get into the nooks and crannies

@caramccaffrey4779 11 ай бұрын

I wonder if there’s any difference between them in the way they react with resin? 🤔

@theheinzification 11 ай бұрын

In my experience with Pop it's not critical to be overly exact with the amount of water in the mix. If you want it thinner, just add a bit more water so you can actually pour it in the mold. No problem at all. Depending on the variant of Pop it hardens quickly or very slowly. I use one made for pouring and it seems to me that I get all the details, just like with resin. Maybe I should take a closer look though. Or maybe the molds I used it in didn't have that many fine details. However all the variations of Pop I know and have used are not to be mixed right away. You put the powder in a container, then add water until the powder is more or less submerged and then wait and just let it sit like that for 2 minutes or longer, depending on the kind of Pop you use. Having it sit longer than suggested isn't a problem either, so no need to be exact. Then stir (if it's not liquid enough or too liquid you shouldn't add water or powder at that point) and afterwards pour it or whatever you use it for. It doesn't flake of THAT easy, but of course it isn't nearly as hard as resin. It's certainly not as versatile as resin either as far as pouring is concerned.

@G.Lollie 11 ай бұрын

thank you !!

@vezhopkins714 11 ай бұрын

is Stone cast closer to plaster of Paris or resincrete ?🤔

@user-wu8pk1tu3r 10 ай бұрын

Big price difference between the two....Resin Crete is much more expensive

@myruffleddreams1906 6 ай бұрын

I’ve added POP to paint in order to get a chalk effect. Not realizing how POP works my paint just kept getting harder and harder. I think you can actually add just about any waterbased product, that may also make it stronger. You could probably put some sort of water-based sealant in it, or maybe even some sort of fiber type additive to make the POP stronger?

@rubylicious1024 4 ай бұрын

yep, I think it's a interesting material.. if you look at calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate, you can find many of what it's used for.. a lot of various uses in construction, medical and agriculture for ex

@DianasCraftyCastle 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comparison, Steve. I learn so much from your comparison videos. 😁

@MelissaK307 11 ай бұрын

I thought about using resin crate to make a homemade fire pit

@MelissaK307 11 ай бұрын

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I will for sure be checking into that and then I'll send you a photo once it's finished

@alcg3981 11 ай бұрын

Good idea! I wonder if coating the inside with heat proof cement would make a difference?

@lindaeastment4542 11 ай бұрын

Hi Steve,Thanks for sharing a very helpful tutorial very much appreciated 👍❤️ Steve, what did you think of the Swedish Glaze ice cream ✨

@lecreamcakes4069 2 ай бұрын

How well does the resin stuff stick to streched canvas?

@flodjod 3 ай бұрын

plaster is mixed by pouring and slaking plaster into water not the other way around

@flodjod 2 ай бұрын

plus your mixture was far too thick thats why the details were lacking, pop should be poured as the resin was not stuffed into the mold

@Bubblestheghost 9 ай бұрын

What kind of paint did you use? I saw another video from a different creator say acrylic paint does not work on resincrete, that it peels off.

@liamwatson5125 2 ай бұрын

And if there’s any plaster of Paris or resin mixture remaining, do not throw it down the sink! Pour it into a plastic bag and then throw it away, otherwise you’ll block the drains.

@sallymccornack122 11 ай бұрын

Just wondered what the price difference is as well.

@flodjod 2 ай бұрын

horrendous price diff

@JrBurriss 10 ай бұрын

If you drop them with they break apart?

@brendagoen 10 ай бұрын

Steve I coat my POP with a clear coat and also add a little more water with it

@Luvpig 11 ай бұрын

❤

@neilholoran8415 6 ай бұрын

Hello. Great video. Seems difficult to buy in Germany 🇩🇪. Any ideas to be able purchase in Germany. Many thanks.

@stephaniesanderson9638 11 ай бұрын

How do these both compare to jesmonite?

@sinneryetsaintly 7 ай бұрын

That was what I was wondering! Also, how does it compare to the resin/POP mix he did awhile back!?

@_WhoIsAyla_ Ай бұрын

POP is a great alternative to Jesmonite since we can't buy it in the states!

@CreatingwithWinglessAngel 11 ай бұрын

Very nice comparison. Resin creat. Looks like the better choice.

@flodjod 2 ай бұрын

maybe but only if you are rich

@mlfett6307 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting! I remember you once added Plaster of Paris powder to resin and poured it into a mold. How would that compare to the ResinCrete?

@peterbuckby7319 3 ай бұрын

Just make the Paris more fluid. It then it show’s more detail

@stephencraig7130 17 күн бұрын

Resinctete is $$$$ Way too expensive!

@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts 17 күн бұрын

I think it’s worth the extra. But it’s down to the individual preference.

@Greyboa45 4 күн бұрын

What about pice???

@shirleylouisemahoney3498 2 ай бұрын

Thats probably why plaster of paris is so cheap It crumbles over time Resin crete is much harder Doesn't always pay to buy the cheaper stuff when you are selling them.

@_WhoIsAyla_ Ай бұрын

Not if you coat it with a polyurethane spray top coat after it cures or you can buy the stuff you brush on. I use 2 or 3 coats, letting each dry in between. I have yet to have a product that I've sold break down or crumble over time.

@stephencraig7130 17 күн бұрын

Hydrostone works better. ....

@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts 17 күн бұрын

I think it’s individual choice. In my opinion and experience ResinCrete is the best out there and I’ve tried a lot. But again it’s about using what you like and are comfortable using. 😀

@LorE_aka-midwestmemaw8555 11 ай бұрын

🫶🏼. I was actually asking myself this over the last few days. I typically use Plaster Paris as a weight type thing, like to fill a flowerpot to hold my tiki torch under on my covered deck.