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Celtic Knots Mold Kit

Product Details

This mold REQUIRES pipettes to inject the resin in through the large centerline of round vents.

This is a two part mold that makes the Celtic knots only (Gold or White parts in the photos). They are made in halves (up to three pairs at a time) then glued together with CA glue after they've fully cured and have been trimmed. In the mold they are joined in pairs by way of large round vents which is also where you fill the mold with resin using a pipette.

When making the final blank using these castings occasionally small bubbles can get trapped in it on the bottom side. The work-around for this problem is to fill the end pockets (on the bottom side) with resin and let it cure. However in the case of making the sample I filled all the end pockets on all four sides. This is all described in the instruction booklet but is shown here in one of the last few photos.

The two pens show the difference in the thicknesses of the Celtic Knots. The blue pen has the 2mm walls and the red pen has the 1mm walls. The blue pen was made with the basic blank method and the red pen was made with the tube-in method. You can see that the Celtic knot is much more evenly centered on the red one. The blue might have been more centered if I had a real actual pen blank drilling jig instead of my homemade one. One of the last photos shows two turned blanks on slimline tube, one of each size.

Demolding - Pulling the top out of the mold is actually quite easy, even without mold release. Because of the vents that go through the top, the castings will remain attached to the top when you pull it off. Depending how long you let them cure, the exposed walls on the knot halves will bend easily. I usually leave them stuck to the top until they firm up fully so that the wall's don't get bent when trying to demold them. That is why you can buy these mold parts as a whole mold or separately thereby allowing you to have more tops so that the production isn't halted due to waiting for them to harden.

It is such a detailed operation to make the Celtic Knot blanks that I had to make a separate instruction booklet for it that includes both, making the Celtic Knot castings and making the final pen blanks.

These molds could be for the person that likes to make Celtic Knot pens from start to finish, or the person that just sells blanks. But it could also be for the person that wants to sell the Celtic Knot pieces by themselves to people that like to make blanks. Choice is yours.

The tube-in tube mounts are included with this product.

All molds are made to order and don't exist until the order is placed.

I love the quality of these molds!

Julie Anne

I own several of these molds by Armand, and they are absolutely the best silicone molds on the market.

Arin Way

Way's Custom woodworking and Blank Sales

I have several molds from Armand and I love them. They are top quality and he stands behind his products.

Greg Newman

Armand Buron

Silicone Mold Designer/Maker

Hello, I'm just an elderly gentleman that used to make wood pens and sold them on the crook site known as E t s y! This website is my breakaway from them. Anyway, as I said I used to make wood pens but the pen making competition out there is just too great for this old guy. When COVID broke out my son and I started making mask prototypes from heat resistant skin safe resin. That required the use of custom silicone molds. Well we finally got a mask that was approved by the hospital for use but it had to be patent pending before they would buy them. So with no money left to pursue it any further it was dropped. I had all this silicone left so I decided to design and make a new universal tube-in mold that would work for most any pen type. One thing lead to another and here I am now with a full product line of two-step silicone molds for pen makers and have new patterns coming out all the time. This new product line is a low profit but satisfying one that I enjoy doing. They have been sold to customers in over seven countries.

Please Note: If Armand's Write Stuff (AWS) spends time designing and making a new product - even if it was by request - the product design remains the property of AWS and will be sold as seen fit by AWS.

I can be reached privately at the email address near the page bottom (aws-mail@shaw.ca).

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