GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
WHEN WORN OUf CAN BE USED TO MOULD YERY ATTRACTIYE BOWLS. A FEW HINTS It is often possiole to get a few gramophonfe records which are so bld arid scratched that they are no longer 0f any use for their original purpose. It is Very interesting to. make these into bowls, and the work is easy to carry out. Take a record and starft by getting away the label ori it. To remove this, soak a sponge in water and then place it on the record. Allow tiiiie for the water to soak iii and then the label will come away quite easily. Now dry the record and put it in an oven which is warm, but not very hot. You must watch the record closely, feeling it from. time to time, for if it is in the oven too long or the heat . is too great, the ' material of wh'ich it is made is likely to melt. While the record is getting pliable, select the bowl which you wish to copy and which is to serve as a mould. This must be well warmed, otherwise the I record will harden . almost -ais soon as ' it touch'es the cold china, and there will be little chance to do. the moulding prbperly. . , When all is ready, place the record on th'e table, pneviously covered with a sheet of paper, and then stand the bowl or hasin on it. Now, with the
hands, bend the pliable record round the outside of 'the bowl, carefully smoothing out any parts that are uneven. Then leave until the record has set quite hard, and gently pull away froin the mould. The chief thing to bear in mind is that neither the record nor the bowl must be sb hot that they stick together. The. bowl, which you have formed, is made more attractive if it is painted with enamel. It might be decoratesd with: flower, or other pat- , terns. If these cannot he padnted on, ( brightiy-coloured pictures couid he cut oiit from seed catalogues, for instance, and gumined on to the bowl. Firially; give the whole thing a coat I of varnish. Most people will he surprised what very pretty howls can be made from old records in the way descrihed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 585, 17 July 1933, Page 2
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378GRAMOPHONE RECORDS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 585, 17 July 1933, Page 2
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