I just walked into the virgin wilderness that is my garage and poured some Plaster of Paris into a plastic container. I came back 25 minutes later and stepped in it. The print seemed a bit too human... the arch was there and the toes not nearly round enough to match the Patterson style for my taste.

So ... I leaned forward and pressed my thumb and forefinger into the plaster to shape it. I found I could then make dermal ridges in any direction just by pressing them into the plaster. Any ape dermal ridge or human dermal ridge pressed in any direction I wanted - all I needed was to order them.

I could also make the print bend with a Mid-Tarsal Break if I wanted. I could make it as big as I liked and I could avoid any prints at all when I wanted by simply using a plastic sheet on my hand or foot.

Next, I guess I'll pour some latex or silicone in it and see if can make something cool to wear.

Total time to make this experiment: 25 minutes to dry to consistency and 2 minutes to shape. The easiest thing I've done so far.

- Dfoot

The thing with dermal ridges is not if you can make finger print impressions of them in dent material... you can. What's of most importance is the ridge pattern formed by these ridges... A human imprinting finger ridges onto a dent cast will look just like that... a series of similar concave ridge patterns applied adjacent and in succession. As Chilcutt pointed out, many of the more credible casts show dermal ridges with distinct ridge lineages running the length of the foot... a disnticnt ridge pattern that would be very difficult to hoax...

Do we even want to know how you plan to use them? :new_whistle: