Carolina Garrison

Like I said, the best advice I got in my 2 years of trying to vac-form, came from the StudioCreations tutorial. Be prepared to mess up a lot and waste a lot of plastic. You can't be told how to do it right, just practice.

NegativeEleven wrote:Like I said, the best advice I got in my 2 years of trying to vac-form, came from the StudioCreations tutorial. Be prepared to mess up a lot and waste a lot of plastic. You can't be told how to do it right, just practice.

Yep like cooking each person does it differently........and it is a feel

I am not a fan of Ainsworth (SDS) from some of the lies but his is a master at thermoforming

I've given the tutorial a look and I think I've figured out some of my problems. I think my buck was too big and caused it to stretch the plastic out which caused the roughness. I also need to change the position of the hole for the shop vac. The only problem I had was i can't fit my plastic sheets in the oven cause they are 24 by 24 do you think I could get away with it being smaller and still do chests?

MY vac-form is 24X 21 and i can do chest piece's. The secret to vac-forming is whatever the height of your mold is, you want the let the plastic sag half that when in the oven. This will give you the stretch you want without making the plastic thin. To much sag and you get wrinkles . Hope this help's.

Haha that helps a lot last time I let the plastic sag a little more than my entire buck that's probably what caused the roughness.

I found this video on you tube. This guy made a vac former. Seems to work well and shows him using it.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZmxTerat4