Thursday, February 24, 2011

Corn Husk Experiment


CORN HUSK Inner-Soles



I decided to explore other alternatives to Coco-fiber since I've got the sole casting down pretty well.

Today I bought a bunch of corn and shucked the husks and let them dry out (mostly by microwaving the hell out of them)

Then I put the husks into the blender to grind them up.  I originally did three different grades of husk fiber but the weight was pretty low so I combined the small and the medium grade into one.   Then I used the same weight ratio to cast the first Husk Sole.  Belowis a picture of the medium to fine grade husk fibers and a few pictures of the resulting cast.











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