Monthly Archives: September 2010

Vinyl Bowls

I was walking back home from work the other night, when I saw loads of boxes full of vinyl records on the street. Now the thing about Toronto for those who have never been here are that there are few charity shops, so people put things that

Box of Vinyl

they don’t need out on the street (usually furniture, which is how we’ve furnished most of our apartment actually), and if it’s on the curb… then it’s fair game!

So I picked up as much as I could carry and took them back home, as my roomate is a DJ. Sadly only 2 of the records were any decent, so we were stuck with loads of vinyl that we didn’t need… so what did we do with them?

Welcome to the Kaluuja guide to making a vinyl bowl!

Put the vinyl in the oven

Step 1: Get some old vinyl records that you don’t need.

Step 2: Pre-heat your oven to 200C

Step 3: Put your vinyl record onto something roughly the shape you want your object to be (e.g. if you want a bowl, put the vinyl on an upside-down bowl so that when you heat it, it will droop over the bowl).

Step 4: Leave the vinyl in the oven for about 4-6mins