5/17/2017 Making Climbing Holds with Trevor and Charles

Trevor and I have started to gather up and clean all of our silicone negatives so that we can make many climbing holds at once.

We realized that, if we properly stabilized them, we could fit more holds in to our box at one time.

Because of this process, we could make about ten or twelve holds in a day which gave us the time to experiment with things like paint.

Unfortunately, our idea of mixing in paint with the poly-urethane was not the best idea after all.

As you can see, the moisture of the orange paint caused many bubbles to form within the hold. These bubbles enlarged the hold and caused it to become too brittle to use.

Thankfully, Trevor and I are still on track and have almost all of the holds that we need!

5/6/2017 Making Climbing Holds With Trevor and Charles

Trevor and I have been covering holds in silicone recently. Our original plan to pour silicone into a box was changed because we realized that putting small amounts of silicone into soap and water would be much more efficient and would dry much faster. Because a whole box was not filled, we could use small globs to save large amounts silicone. 

Once we were confident with our new mold making process, Trevor and I moved onto making and testing holds. We recently received our poly urethane composites in the mail, so we were ready to see how well our materials would work. 

We were very excited to see that it worked out.

Then we tested the strength of each test hold by dropping it from tall heights and hanging from it like a climbing hold should be used. As you can see, it worked out quite well.

Finally, after a long day of work..... I made Trevor clean up the workshop.