After a long time looking for a reasonable price soap mold and soap cutter online, I decided to make one myself. I learned this in my character animation class that good planning will save you a lot of headache later on. So I made sure I design and plan my soap mold layout well. Originally I was going to have a separate lid for the soap mold, then I thought, why not just use the base of the soap cutter as the soap mold lid to save extra piece of wood and cost? here's what I had:
I then went to both Home Depot and Lowe's comparing the price and quality of the wood, one thing I noticed is the dimension at Lowe's seems to be off a bit, instead of 3.75", they just labeled it as 4", so not a good idea if you are going to precision. I picked my wood and had them cut for me in pieces, and took it home, then the fun began.....
I was pretty excited when I was done, it always feels good to design and make something yourself, my soap cutter and soap mold combo idea works and I couldn't be any more proud :) I can now make 10" x 2.5" x 1" bar, with the flexibility to do 10" x 3.25" x 1" or 10" x 4" x 1" with additional piece of wood.
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