The essential guide to mold making & slip casting /
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York :
Lark Books,
©2006.
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| Online Zugang: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- An overview : prototypes and molds
- Designing, creating, and using
- Tools & materials : Tools
- materials
- supplies
- equipment
- safety
- Plaster : Types
- Absorption rates
- Consistency
- Amounts
- Mixing
- Pouring
- Frosting
- Plaster prototypes
- Mold soap and other separators
- Storing
- Featured artist : Anne Kraus: a conversation with the materials
- One-piece molds : Handmade clay prototypes
- One-, two-, and three-template clay prototypes
- Footed forms
- Cups and saucers
- Plaster prototypes
- Featured artist : Tom Spleth: cups and only cups
- Multiple-piece molds : Making
- Handles
- Spouts
- Pitchers
- Tiles
- Lidded forms
- Hollow-cast feet
- Fruits and vegetables
- No-model molds
- Complex molds
- Master molds : Advantages
- Plaster masters
- Rubber masters
- Featured artists : Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley: slip casting in production
- Slip formulation : Deflocculation
- Types of slip-casting clay bodies
- Mixing equipment
- Mixing
- Specific gravity
- Viscosity
- Mixing wet and dry scraps
- Mixing large batches
- Featured artist : Richard Notkin: evolution is not an option
- It's essential
- Casting : Preparing slip
- Preparing molds
- Casting
- Removing castings
- Handling wet castings
- Assembling cast parts
- Drying castings
- Preparing castings for firing
- Firing
- Troubleshooting : Broken molds
- chipped molds
- "Plaster disasters"
- Troubleshooting guide.