Home Crafts & Hobbies How‑To's

Home Crafts & Hobbies
Smooth-On rubbers, plastics and foams are ideal for a variety of home hobbies and arts & crafts projects. Easy to use OOMOO silicone mold rubber is perfect for the hobbyist and can be used to reproduce detail of any small or simple model. Smooth-Cast 300 liquid plastic can then be poured into your OOMOO mold to make an exact copy of your original. Great for school projects (note; these materials require adult supervision at all times).
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How To Make a Custom Charcuterie Cutting Board With EpoxAcast™ 690

How To Make a Custom Charcuterie Cutting Board With EpoxAcast™ 690

Transform a normal cutting board into a unique decorative charcuterie serving board using EpoxAcast™ 690

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DIY Embedded Flower Epoxy End Table

DIY Embedded Flower Epoxy End Table

Learn this great technique for making your own unique home décor or to sell as handcrafted masterpieces.

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How To Make Cherry Burl and Epoxy Rings Using EpoxAcast™ 690

How To Make Cherry Burl and Epoxy Rings Using EpoxAcast™ 690

Chris demonstrates how he turns these gorgeous "earth rings" using EpoxAcast™ 690

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DIY Custom Bird Treats Made with Equinox™ Food-Safe Silicone Putty

DIY Custom Bird Treats Made with Equinox™ Food-Safe Silicone Putty

This step-by-step tutorial shows how to create custom bird treats using Equinox 38 medium food-safe silicone putty

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Food Safe Mold Making - Create a Custom Chocolate Treat

Food Safe Mold Making - Create a Custom Chocolate Treat

Learn how to make a unique handcrafted edible treat using food-safe silicone SORTA-Clear 37

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DIY Decorative Resin Tray Using Smooth-Cast 326

DIY Decorative Resin Tray Using Smooth-Cast 326

Using resin with pigments and colors, you can create amazing resin art!

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How To Make Fishing Lures With Mold Star™ & Feather Lite™

How To Make Fishing Lures With Mold Star™ & Feather Lite™

Learn How To Make Your Own Fishing Lures With Mold Star™ Silicone and Feather Lite™ Resin

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How To Make a Custom Foam Storage Insert

How To Make a Custom Foam Storage Insert

A Custom Made Foam Insert for Electronics or Other Delicate Equipment

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How To Make a Waterfall Table Using EpoxAcast™ 690

How To Make a Waterfall Table Using EpoxAcast™ 690

Learn how to make a waterfall table using EpoxAcast™ clear liquid epoxy

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How To Coat a Wood Bartop Using Tarbender™

How To Coat a Wood Bartop Using Tarbender™

Watch as Completely Custom creates a high gloss, impact resistant bartop

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How To Make an Epoxy Tabletop using Tarbender™

How To Make an Epoxy Tabletop using Tarbender™

How Tarbender™ Can Be Brushed Onto a Surface To Create a High Gloss Tabletop

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How To Create a Faux Marble Tabletop or Bartop

How To Create a Faux Marble Tabletop or Bartop

Techniques to create a bartop or tabletop surface that looks like marble.

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How To Make a Colored Pencil Bowl Using EpoxAcast™ 690 Epoxy

How To Make a Colored Pencil Bowl Using EpoxAcast™ 690 Epoxy

Learn how to create a diy epoxy bowl with embedded colored pencils.

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How To Make a River Table Using Clear Epoxy Casting Resin and Reclaimed Wood

How To Make a River Table Using Clear Epoxy Casting Resin and Reclaimed Wood

How to use a piece of reclaimed cedar to create a beautiful river table

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How To Make Metal Cold Cast Decorative Panels

How To Make Metal Cold Cast Decorative Panels

Creating metal cold cast panels using Smooth Cast ONYX liquid plastic and bronze powder.

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How To Make a Wonder Woman Cosplay using UreCoat™

How To Make a Wonder Woman Cosplay using UreCoat™

How to make costume armor using craft foam and Smooth-On's UreCoat

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Alja-Safe™ Alginate Quick Start Guide

Alja-Safe™ Alginate Quick Start Guide

Follow this simple step-by-step lifecasting guide, and you will have a perfect lifecasting which will 'freeze time'.

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How To Mold and Cast a Record That Actually Plays

How To Mold and Cast a Record That Actually Plays

How moldmaking and casting expand horizons for a seminar graduate whose passion is 78 RPM records

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How To Restore an Antique Picture Frame Using Equinox™

How To Restore an Antique Picture Frame Using Equinox™

In this example, Equinox™ silicone putty is used to mold a section of an antique wooden picture frame.

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How To Create Your Own Jewelry with The Art of Resin Jewelry

How To Create Your Own Jewelry with The Art of Resin Jewelry

Sherri Haab has been a pioneer in the industry since 1996 who features Smooth-On products in her books

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How To Make a Simple Silicone Halloween Sock Mask

How To Make a Simple Silicone Halloween Sock Mask

Make a quick and easy brush on silicone Halloween mask that looks like it took days to create...

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How To Make Custom Food Safe Silicone Candy Molds Using Sorta-Clear™ 37

How To Make Custom Food Safe Silicone Candy Molds Using Sorta-Clear™ 37

In this video, we show how food-safe Sorta-Clear™ 37 silicone is used to make a mold for pouring candies.

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How To Make a Floral Arrangement Using Encapso® K

How To Make a Floral Arrangement Using Encapso® K

This video demonstrates using Smooth-On's Encapso® K to create a realistic floral display.

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How To Cast a Custom Scenery For a Model Railroad

How To Cast a Custom Scenery For a Model Railroad

Mold making and casting gives model railroaders options for creating custom scenic display pieces.

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Beeskep II Candle Operation Running with Smooth-On Rubber

Beeskep II Candle Operation Running with Smooth-On Rubber

To meet their growing demand, Beeskep II started making their own candle molds with Smooth-On mold rubbers.

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How To Replace a Brass Shower Door Handle

How To Replace a Brass Shower Door Handle

A "Cold Cast Brass" handle is molded and cast for a fraction of the cost of replacement.

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How To Turn an Antique Chair from Trash Into Treasure

How To Turn an Antique Chair from Trash Into Treasure

An antique chair is easily repaired using Smooth-Cast® 385 mineral filled casting resin and Universal® Release Agent.

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How To Make Gourd Candle Molds With Martha Stewart Using OOMOO™ Silicone

How To Make Gourd Candle Molds With Martha Stewart Using OOMOO™ Silicone

Real gourds are molded using OOMOO® silicone to create unique and beautiful candle molds.

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Martha Stewart Makes Encapso® K Specimen Jars

Martha Stewart Makes Encapso® K Specimen Jars

Martha makes prop specimen jars for Halloween using Smooth-On Encapso® K silicone rubber.

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Martha Stewart Makes Resin Flower Barrettes

Martha Stewart Makes Resin Flower Barrettes

Martha and Morgan Levine use a dipping technique to create hard barrettes and brooches using crepe paper flowers.

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How To Make a Fake Potion Bottles Using Encapso® K

How To Make a Fake Potion Bottles Using Encapso® K

In this video, Smooth-On fan Jara shows how to make fake potion bottles using Encapso-K silicone rubber.

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How To Coat a Flower With Resin

How To Coat a Flower With Resin

Watch as Jara coats a silk flower with XTC-3D epoxy resin to create a long-lasting glossy display.

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How To Make a Resin Metal Cold Casting

How To Make a Resin Metal Cold Casting

Smooth-On fan Jon N. shows how he makes a mold for a real metal cold casting.

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How To Make a Faux Marble Pen Using Epoxy Putty

How To Make a Faux Marble Pen Using Epoxy Putty

Customer Jara A. shows how she created a faux marble pen using Free Form® Sculpt

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Christmas Ornaments Tutorial Using Casting Resin

Christmas Ornaments Tutorial Using Casting Resin

Smooth-On Fan Jara uses Smooth-Cast® 326 Casting Resin to create some fun holiday ornaments.

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Rapid Pole Setting Using FOAM iT!™ 5 Expanding Foam

Rapid Pole Setting Using FOAM iT!™ 5 Expanding Foam

Using Foam-iT!® 5 fast setting rigid urethane foam offers several advantages for pole setting.

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How To Make a Glow In The Dark Resin Jewelry Necklace

How To Make a Glow In The Dark Resin Jewelry Necklace

We show how you can combine Glow Worm® powder with resin to create an amazing glowing pendant.

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DIY Self-Healing Urethane Rubber Cutting Mat

DIY Self-Healing Urethane Rubber Cutting Mat

See how to make your own custom self-healing cutting mat for a large graphics table.

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Strengthening a 3D Powder Print with XTC-3D Epoxy Resin Coating

Strengthening a 3D Powder Print with XTC-3D Epoxy Resin Coating

In this video, we demonstrate how to properly thin XTC-3D for infusion of powder printed 3D pieces.

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How To Make a Gang Mold For Soap Production

How To Make a Gang Mold For Soap Production

This DIY tutorial shows how to make a gang mold of multiple models for production casting of soap.

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How To Coat CNC Carved Foam Using Epsilon™ PRO Epoxy Coating

How To Coat CNC Carved Foam Using Epsilon™ PRO Epoxy Coating

Epsilon™ PRO produces a semi-rigid impact resistant surface on carved foam

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How To Make a Custom Foam Seat Using Pourable Urethane Foam

How To Make a Custom Foam Seat Using Pourable Urethane Foam

Pourable polyurethane foam materials are used to create a unique piece of custom furniture.

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How To Make a Wonder Woman Amazon Armband

How To Make a Wonder Woman Amazon Armband

Jon shows us how he created an Amazon armband for a Wonder Woman cosplay.

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How To Paint a Sculpture Created with Free Form™ SCULPT Epoxy

How To Paint a Sculpture Created with Free Form™ SCULPT Epoxy

Free Form® SCULPT accepts paint permanently - no primer is required.

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Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 1: How To Make a Silicone Glove Mold

Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 1: How To Make a Silicone Glove Mold

How you can use Rebound 25 silicone rubber to make a mold of an Iron Man helmet.

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Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 2: How To Make an Epoxy Support Shell and Hand Rotated Casting

Cosplay Tutorial: Iron Man Helmet - Part 2: How To Make an Epoxy Support Shell and Hand Rotated Casting

How to make an epoxy fiberglass support shell using the EpoxAmite laminating epoxy system

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How To Make Foam Squishies Using FlexFoam-iT! III Liquid Expanding Foam

How To Make Foam Squishies Using FlexFoam-iT! III Liquid Expanding Foam

How to safely make a foam squishy using Smooth-On FlexFoam-iT! III liquid expanding urethane foam.

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How To Make Fake Zombie Fingers Using Alja-Safe™ and Ecoflex™ 00-35

How To Make Fake Zombie Fingers Using Alja-Safe™ and Ecoflex™ 00-35

Milo creates silicone zombie fingers with breakable bones for Halloween

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How To Make a Glow In The Dark Wooden Clock

How To Make a Glow In The Dark Wooden Clock

Glow Worm powder stays brighter 10x longer

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How To Repair a Flat Tire Using FlexFoam-iT! 25

How To Repair a Flat Tire Using FlexFoam-iT! 25

See How You Can Use FlexFoam-iT! Foam To Permanently Repair a Tire

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How To Make a Rug Skid-Free Using Brush-On™ 40 Urethane Rubber

How To Make a Rug Skid-Free Using Brush-On™ 40 Urethane Rubber

See how versatile Brush-On™ 40 can be used to make a non-skid surface

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How To Repair a Skimboard Using XTC-3D™ Epoxy

How To Repair a Skimboard Using XTC-3D™ Epoxy

In this how-to tutorial video we show how XTC-3D® epoxy resin can be used to repair a skimboard.

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How To Repair a Fender Using Free Form™ Habitat™ Epoxy Putty

How To Repair a Fender Using Free Form™ Habitat™ Epoxy Putty

In this car repair tutorial video, Milo shows how you can repair a fender using Free Form™ Habitat™ epoxy putty.

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How To Make an Epoxy Table Using EpoxAcast™ 690 Epoxy Resin

How To Make an Epoxy Table Using EpoxAcast™ 690 Epoxy Resin

Milo shows how he makes a very unique, creative epoxy table top using EpoxAcast™ 690.

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How To Repair a Tractor Seat Using FlexFoam-iT!™ 15

How To Repair a Tractor Seat Using FlexFoam-iT!™ 15

In this tutorial we show how FlexFoam-iT! 15 can be used to repair a damaged John Deere® tractor seat.

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How To Repair a Wooden Chair Using Free Form™ AIR HT Epoxy Putty

How To Repair a Wooden Chair Using Free Form™ AIR HT Epoxy Putty

Watch as Alex shows how he used Free Form™ AIR HT to repair this wooden outdoor chair.

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Make a High Gloss Themed Table Using Tarbender™ Epoxy

Make a High Gloss Themed Table Using Tarbender™ Epoxy

An old coffee table is gets a new life thanks to Tarbender™ clear coating epoxy

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Repairing a Rotted Wooden Post Using Smooth-On High Temp Epoxies

Repairing a Rotted Wooden Post Using Smooth-On High Temp Epoxies

Milo shows how you can repair a rotted wooden post using Free Form™ AIR HT and EpoxAmite™ HT.

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How To Create a Marble Effect In Castings Using Matrix Dryve™

How To Create a Marble Effect In Castings Using Matrix Dryve™

We demonstrate how you can use Matrix Dryve™ to create interesting marbling effects.

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How To Make a Metal Cold Casting Using Matrix Dryve™ Polymer Gypsum

How To Make a Metal Cold Casting Using Matrix Dryve™ Polymer Gypsum

Learn how you can cold cast Matrix Dryve™ polymer gypsum

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How To Make a Fake Bloody Hand Prop Using Alja-Safe™ and Dragon Skin™ 10NV

How To Make a Fake Bloody Hand Prop Using Alja-Safe™ and Dragon Skin™ 10NV

We show how to make a realistic rubber hand with fake bloody accents.

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Painting a Flexible Foam Casting Using Maker Pro Paint™

Painting a Flexible Foam Casting Using Maker Pro Paint™

Painting a Flexible Foam Casting Using Maker Pro Paint™

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Painting a Flexible Foam Casting Using Fluorescent Maker Pro Paints™

Painting a Flexible Foam Casting Using Fluorescent Maker Pro Paints™

Painting a Flexible Foam Casting Using Fluorescent Maker Pro Paints™

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Repairing An Archery Target Using The Smooth-On Archery Repair Kit

Repairing An Archery Target Using The Smooth-On Archery Repair Kit

Repairing An Archery Target Using The Smooth-On Archery Repair Kit

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