Another Way?

Oh, Ace, come on... No call for that.

This sand castle project is quite obviously important to Heidi.

[edit] In case your comment gets some OT's, it wasn't me.

Witches don't pound sand.

Neither do "large toy hammers with witches".

All this talk of sand witches is making me hungry.

Personally I am a big fan of taking a large pile of sand, compacting it and then carving out the desired shape like you would carve a shape out of a lump of wood, stone, ice, etc.

Creating complex and delicate shapes using molds just doesn't work well with sand as a material, for obvious reasons, and becomes even more difficult when the target market is for kids or inexperienced sand sculptors.

It's been done already Heidi.....

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/sand-castle-molds.html

Thanks.

I am surprized that there are so many sand molds out there. But still, even if I get clobbered, I was just wondering if my push rod attempt could be replaced by some improvement using the Noyes Patent. It is long and tedious and way out of date. There were several more patents mentioned by the Patent Attorney who (whom?) I was dealing with. Some are pretty ancient Noyes was issued in 1917, others go from 1919 to 1975. The Patent Attorney's letter was dated May, 1976. I once went to a outfit that did plastic shapes and it was all very expensive. I had a few of the wooden forms that the molds were made from. It is an interesting process. I guess no one wants to get that involved making molds to fit with a drawing obtained from various pictures or drawings found in the library. Perhaps architects could practice out their ideas using sand. The Patent Attorney writes: Reading the Noyes Patent No. 1,248,532 , the patent discloses a mold having a partially open top which is useful in forming a house from sand. Note in Figures 4-6 that additional portions, such as a chimney, can be molded on top of previously molded shape. On and on. Naturally children would not go to such pains. But anyway, something to think about. Done that, did that, with seeing, reading about the push rod episode.