Resin Pour and Cure Log
Find out why last month's pour was flawless and this week's is tacky, by having both written down side by side.
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Studio crafts and making · SD-22
Mould and Casting Record
Casting record sheet — one mould identified once with its material, keys and known faults, then a log of every pour: batch, mix, demould and result.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Know how many pulls a mould has taken and which mix gave a clean cast, so a tired mould is retired before it ruins a job rather than after.
Who it is for
Resin, plaster, wax, concrete and small-scale metal casters; ceramicists slip casting; prop, model and jewellery makers.
How to use it
- Give each mould a name or number and fill in the top block once.
- Log every cast on its own row, with the material, batch and the mix you actually used.
- Record the pour and demould times so a good cure can be repeated.
- Write the result honestly — good, seconds or scrap — and why.
- Update the pulls-so-far figure and known faults as the mould ages.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: A mould identified once — what it is, what it was made from, how many pulls it has taken — then every cast out of it with the mix, the demould and what came out.
Your material's figures, not ours. Mix ratios, pot life, cure and demould times all belong to the material you are using and the maker's own data sheet. Write yours in; nothing here tells you what they are.
Write-on lines: Mould name / no. · Master / pattern · Made on · Mould material
Mould details — fill in once
Write-on lines: Mould type · Parts / keys · Release agent used · Stored where · Pulls so far · Known faults (seams, undercuts, tears)
Casting log — one row per pour from this mould
Table, 9 rows: Date · Cast material · Batch / lot · Mix (your ratio) · Poured · Demoulded · Result · Notes / faults
Questions
Why is there no mix ratio or demould time printed?
Because they belong to the material you are using, not to us. Two resins from the same supplier can differ, and plaster and wax behave differently again. Take the figures from your own data sheet, write in what you did, and the sheet becomes your record of what worked.
One sheet per mould or one sheet per session?
Per mould. The point is the running history of that one mould — its pull count and where it is starting to fail — which is lost if pours from several moulds are mixed on one page.
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