Making a Record Bowl

So, remember how I said making a record bowl is super easy? Well it is super easy, but let's see if I can make the instructions make it sound like it is.

1 - Turn your oven on to somewhere between 375-400 degrees.

2 - While you are waiting for the oven to heat do two things: A) Line a large cookie sheet (or a baking sheet that is large enough to hold your record) with a sheet of tin foil. Place your record on the tin foil. B) Select a bowl that you will use as a mold for your record bowl. You can choose any bowl that you like, depending on how flared/straight up you want the edges of your record bowl to be. Just make sure that the base of the bowl is roughly the same size as the center label of the record.

3 - When the oven is done heating place the cookie sheet in the oven.

4 - When the record starts to look a little wavy (watch it close, mine only took about 30 seconds!) use a hot pad to take the cookie sheet out of the oven.

5 - Then pick the record up (you can do this with your bare hands, the record will be warm, but it won't burn you) and press it down into the bowl you have chosen. The sides will wave on their own. If you want to manipulate the record bowl to be more/less wavy you can do so with your hands, but work fast as it will cool off and harden quickly.
And there you have it, a record bowl! So the next time you are at a yard sale, thrift store, or antique shop buy yourself some records and experiment with making record bowls!