Making holds again...

So - I've been hanging out in Pittsburgh for the past week and will be here for another week, before heading on a four day trip with Matt - to who knows where - then to Charleston for the winter season.

I've started making climbing holds again.

The motivation came from climbing at Climb North here in North Park, Pittsburgh.

I bought some pottery clay at the craft store. Now - the mold is the hardest part.

I got a request from Bob for a type of hold that I've made before. So I made a cast out of clay (though this one is a big more positive than the requested hold) - and I used All Purpose Silicon.

To get the viscosity down, I boiled it (in its tube) - it took a whole tube for one mold - and its tough to not get air bubbles.

Its "drying" right now - I'll let you'all know how it turns out and if it works, I'll make another hold (using my other tube of Silicon) - if both of those turn out, I'll get some expoxy resin and color sand and go from there!

Now - to get a really GOOD mold - you need to get a $100.00 per gallon rubber molding...if I get my hold thing going again - I'll start using that and go big time with it.

I've been thinking about several cool hold ideas....

Stay posted =)