Bronze casting (2024)
When casting at Maiale, you must provide your own plaster, wax for spruce
Grinding slurry (baked slurry) until very fine, place bucket under grinder, pull out black handle slightly so that v fine slurry may drop into bucket. Each bucket roughly one litre. Or wait is that 10 lol. Then one silver cup of chamotte in each black bucket.
Attaching sleeve to base: 5dl of plaster to just seal the bottom. This is 50ml and NOT 5 liters as I misunderstood.
Add water, mix thoroughly and then plaster 2 cups
Form touches base of mould then lift up by 2-3cm
You have to hold the form in place until the pour sets so the form doesnât sink or float. You cannot do this alone.
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Wax forms and spruce
I think I made the spruces too long? Too much volume
The main lesson is these forms should have been sand casted flat. Because it is very easy to shape bronze after. A lot of pain blood and tears and costs could have been avoided. But I am learning lol.















