Pergo Soap Mold

While looking around my shop for scrap wood to make a new soap mold I started to look at some old pieces of Pergo flooring left over from an old project. The non-porous surface seemed like it might release from the soap during unmolding better than wood so I put a mold together with the flooring scraps using some screws and 2 pairs of small hinges as described in the Chestnut Farms plans. I like how it works. The end pieces come right off. It’s easiest for me to unscrew the hinges and slide the sides up and off of the soap. I unscrewed the part of the hinge attached to the sides but it would have been better to unscrew the hinge from the bottom so I didn’t have any obstruction when I pulled dental floss under the soap to release it from the bottom. Overall, very pleased with my Pergo mold. I had a little seepage under the sides, but not bad. Might be worse with a very light trace, but I took it to a pretty thick trace. I like it puddingy. Note: My Pergo was several years old and one side of it was paper/card. I used it for the bottom piece and the end pieces, paper side out, of course. I had some newer scraps of another brand that were non-porous on both sides which you can see on the side pieces.