After months of contemplating, discussing and millions of we shoulds, we, LD and Veeni, finally set a date and got started on our weekly art, craft and experimentation sessions.
Our first project was an upcycled Record Bowl - we'd seen these in retro shops and local markets but thought it would be fun to give it a go ourselves. We did a bit of research online and, although everyone had their own variations of how-to, we figured we got the gist and jumped in feet first.
Our first attempt was a moment of uh-oh! We'd heated the oven to 200, placed the record on the base of a metal, oven-proof bowl and left it for 10 minutes (as one 'recipe' suggested). After about 8 minutes we began to smell something and ran in to find this:
Luckily we were able to pry most of this off the metal bowl and the rest we slowly melted and scraped away. It was unfortunate that this first bowl snapped when pulling it off, as the inside was beautifully smooth and shiny.
So, onto our second attempt. We lowered the heat slightly and placed another record into the oven. As the record began to warp we pulled it out and with oven mitts, pushed the edges of the record around the bowl. This sounds easier than it is but the vinyl cools very quickly and it doesn't stay down. We found the best way to do it was bit by bit; place it in the oven, bend, then back in the oven. Over time we managed to push the edges around the bowl and get it to look like this:
Whilst this bowl looked good we wanted the edges to be deeper and for it to look more 'bowl-like', so we flipped the metal bowl over, pushed the record in as far as it would go and back into the oven it went. After a few minutes we removed it and pushed the record in further and pushed the edges towards the walls of the metal bowl.
We were really happy with the end result and by our third attempt we were both able to go home with a bowl each.
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