Request: Vinyl Record Bowl
Archived on 01/23/2010
How do you make a chip bowl using an old vinyl record?
By Jen from Suwanee, GA
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RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
Warm the record until slightly soft, drape over the outside of a bowl. It will set in a short time. Just be careful not to use a valuable record. I have some worth hundreds of pounds, do your research first. (11/16/2009)
By patchs
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
I use a Pyrex bowl and lay the record over it in an oven of 150 degrees, then watch it closely. Good luck.(11/16/2009)
By Poor But Proud
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Craft: Vinyl Record Bowl
Archived on 11/10/2009
By Stella Bui-Rivet
This is an easy recycled craft that you can make in 20 minutes or less. It makes a hip container for that small potted plant that you are planning to give someone as a gift this Christmas.
Ingredients:
- Record that you no longer care about
- Oven safe bowl (approx. 9" across the top)
- Cookie sheet
Directions:
Preheat oven 200 degrees F. Place Bowl upside down on the cookie sheet place record on top of the bowl. Once oven is preheated place in the oven for 8-10 minutes.
Now the record should be soft enough to mold, and cool enough to touch but use pot holders at first, just to be safe. The bowl and cookie sheet will be much hotter than the vinyl. Turn the bowl right side up and place the record in side it, and mold until you got the shape you want. You only have about a minute to work with it, so work fast. If it is not just right put it back in the oven for a few more minutes and try again.
Once it has completely cooled it is ready to use. It took less than five minutes for mine to cook completely. What for you may ask?
- Fruit bowl
- Flower pot (already has the drainage hole)
- A place to put your keys
- A decoration
- A gift
- Nail it to your wall has art
- Paint it
* Notice to pet owners: hair sticks to this very easily. Simply just wipe it down with a wet cloth.
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RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
You can use various bowls and pans to get different shapes. Using a loaf pan results in a rather groovy rectangular shape, deeper bowls give you a more shallow record, while narrow bowls give you a tighter bowl.
Experimentation yields rather interesting results. Open the kitchen window, though. The fumes can be rather noxious sometimes. (01/28/2006)
By Dharma
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
This is a great idea just to do with the kids on a day they are home from school early, or just on a rainy day. I did this craft for my daughter's 11th birthday party, and all the kids loved the idea.To make it just a little more fun I went to my local craft supply store and got a lot of great little objects to decorate the bowls with! I just love this craft. (06/11/2006)
By a
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
Sweetness. (06/15/2006)
By bob
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
It was very helpful. And I used it for a recycled art contest to make a flower garden with it. (03/25/2007)
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
I have used the large record albums to make larger bowls. They are a fun, conversation piece. (07/09/2007)
By WandaJo
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
CD's and a heat gun work too, and you can do it outside to avoid fumes. (07/27/2007)
By Lslijn
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
Have been making these since the 60's! Geesh, maybe I invented it! :) (10/20/2007)
By cris
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
I made my first bowl yesterday. I had tried wrapping one in hot water, but it turned out ugly, plus the label came off. So I centered one on a very small bowl on a cookie sheet at 200 degrees for no more than a minute. It made a perfect fluted edged bowl. I didn't have to shape it with my hands at all. I am painting it. I think these would make super wall decorations, especially in your music room and den. (04/16/2008)
By DOT zafra
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
I made these for centerpieces at my wedding this spring. We bought random crumby records from second hand stores and stuck on fake labels from 50's and rockabilly bands. Then we filled them with flowers and glass pebbles. It was cute with the rest of the 50's theme. (05/20/2008)
By Paramor
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
Great idea, but be careful. I was making some of these and the "smell" was getting to me. Made me throw up. (08/19/2008)
By Sara
RE: Vinyl Record Bowl
My mom is impossible to buy for, and when she had all her old stuff out to donate to a charity yard sale, we found a bunch of old crummy records. I asked her if I could have them and she thought I was nuts! I told her surely there was a cute craft I could make out of them, they are just so cool. She really thought I had lost it, and now, she's getting one of her records back for Christmas! (12/07/2008)
By sing_anyway
Add color to Bowl
Colored Pencils are great to add colors, lines, designs, patterns, etc. to one side of your record, then do the molding process (12/16/2008)
By Chrissy C.
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