@_thegeoff How are you going to remove the print from within afterwards? Also am curious why would you want the mould to be out of concrete -- it's neither flexible (like silicone) or easy to form (like casting sand).

@robryk The print has been coated in a release agent - petroleum jelly, which I'm assure by my colleagues works. And it needs to be concrete as it's going to be a large blob of molten glass inflated by compressed air, so needs both heat resistance and a lot of structural integrity.

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@_thegeoff I'm really curious how uniform will the thickness of the glass be. (I know glass bottles are made that way, but I always assumed that works by careful preforming of the hunk of molten glass that's blown up in the form.)

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