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...sculpture you are talking about in particular is titled: FIGHT! It is a freestanding wooden crutch on a caster that sits directly onto hardware embedded in the ground. It is quite striking when you ar...
... a group of recent works that suggest a collision of domesticity with our wilder instincts. A series of cast sculptures resembling food trays, candy, discarded clothing, and other detritus sit atop ta...
...s at the Venice Biennale last year, had to imagine the hypothetical anatomy of, say, Wile E. Coyote. He cast its parts in resin and assembled the bones with archeological precision. Surrounded by po...
...I am looking for a Sculptor, who is fit to design Dragons, Gargoyles, Griffins anything mystical, I can cast later in concrete....
Hi, I am doing a belly cast for a friend, and I used the plaster bandage to make a fairly thin copy of her belly. I would like to lay fiberglass or something tough into the plaster bandage negative
Anyone have any comments or advice on the use of Jesmonite as an alternative to polyester resin for casting with metal powders? Cheers Steve Paterson
Hi, I recently cast a cube and I found the best way to get a perfect cube is to plane the edges and then sand with 800, 1200, 1500 grit paper and then polish with 10000 grit polish...this works great
What would the cost be, as opposed to sending it to a foundry and having a bronze casting done? I was reading in an old art book about using thixotropic polyester, MEK peroxide catalyst, and bronze me
We are designing some masters for casting some rubber characters(toys) that need to be flexible when complete. I have looked all over the web, and cannot find what material could be used for these cas
...cally I am interested in doing a cavity type of piece with in a cube of plexiglass Info on materials, casting, techniques, etc....? I have seen a few interesting pieces on the net, but no informat...
Does anyone know of a good core material that can be used in ceramic shell casting and a supplier? I've used core materials from Ransom and Randolph but they are plaster based and emit gasses that cau
Have you ran across those folks over at the cast stone institute www.caststone.org? They are mighty particular as what is called 'cast stone' - they seem to prefer quite a dry mix, tamped not poured.
I want to make a rubber mould of a womans face & cast it in plaster I have made many moulds but never from a living subject,I presume that the moulding rubber that I use is used in the dental professi
...aces of plaster from a fibreglass sculpture? The plaster was left over from the plaster mould I used to cast the sculpture in. Despite using loads of mould-release agent, bits of plaster stayed stuck ...
... if the idea is sound. I think your results are going to depend on the ratio of bronze to resin in your castings. The action of polishing itself is the surface of the material becomes heated to the po...
I am a sculptor working in bronze (castings). Intrested in learning the process of ceramic shell casting.And the availability of the meterials required for it in india.What would be the expenditure r
... My questions are: 1. Should I use latex for the mold? 2. Where would I slit the latex to release the casting? 3. How would I make the support mold to fit around the severe undercuts? These may se...
I am looking for the casting ingredients for creating a 'sandstone' appearence gargoyle. I have two of these myself that I bought from pasttimes in the UK, the particles are very small (a lot smaller
...oma Plastilina, then creating urethane molds (I'm using Smooth-On's Brush-On 35) for them to do plaster casting from. I just tried out and LOVED Super Sculpey. I LOVE having a non-squishable master! ...
Thanks Mark and Andrew for your input. :)
I'm beginning to try to find a way to make fine-detail reproductions of fossils to have cast into silver jewelry. I have been getting very good, high-detail molds by painting the fossils with latex, b
I'd appreciate any help or advice on taking casts of human faces. I'm looking for the simplest, most comfortable way to make detailed impressions. Many thanks
...me or thickness of material a problem? ) What about release agents? - It would be good to get all 6 - 8 casts done from the same mould without having to redo the mould each time. Is exothermic heat a ...
...ted mass. The mass containing the wax is put into a oven and the wax burnt out, hence the term lost wax casting. The dental trade is credited with the process of centrifugal casting. The wax is encase...
So I replied: I don't see why living in another continent should be a problem :-) However I'll e-mail you the info tonight from home. I'm probably going to put up a web site on the process... I have
...I would appreciate recommendations for a release to be used in a PU mold, that will allow plaster to be cast, and painted with water based colors upon demolding. Much Obliged, Ethan Gross...
..., I'd like to find out how to make a reusable mould. No-one I know uses plastiline and are afraid their casting materials will 'melt' it when it's applied. Can anyone suggest the best rubber/silicon...
... still available! We're still looking for someone with experience in ceramic shell investment, lost wax casting. We're a relatively new sculpture foundry located on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula, of...
Anyone know of source for casting silicone to make some rubber like toys. We will make the molds, just need a source for a pour able silicone that will cure and stay flexible. Will need to be non-toxi
I am in process of building a in depth strategy board game. I have a casting company to make my pieces, but it needs prototype sculptings to make its moldings. Right now I have need of six different
...i I work with plaster on a lathe a lot. One problem I have is making piece molds from the turnings (for casting into plaster). If a mold has say 3 pieces, the expansion rate of the plaster ( a normal ...
...ely polyester fiberglass master molds are still perfect and I have either the original master or a good casting. So I want to suspend the master precisely in the mastermold and pour a new mold. I have...
...d all other stuff I have filed here. meanwhile, does someone know the brand? I'm going to test first, casting from waterbased clay, second from plaster original. What kind of sealing/separator I s...
USG rep just called to inform me that a new product will be released by USG in the next few weeks. AquaCast. It is in the HydroCal family, 16% use consistency, demold in about 40 minutes. This is not
...s art. It is not what I'm looking after. I have been told that there are glass materials that you can cast into a ceramic mold quite like bronze, and this is possible in temperatures available in st...
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