Pewter Casting: Pewter casting is easy and you probably already have most of the things you need to try it out. There are lots of ways to cast pewter, I'll be talking about three ways: using foundry casting sand, using silicone molds, and using cuttlebone. This Ins…
What a treat this was...to meet the down to earth and creatively well endowed Christine Atkin s and learn the very cool process of pewter c...
Pewter Sand Casting: There are many ways of pewter casting with a lot of different molds. In this tuttorial I show you a casting method with molding sand. It's a fast way to make a sand mold for pewter casting, but you can only cast one time. After casting you can use t…
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Congrats on all of your successful cuttlefish castings!
As said in the previous post, I had two more birthday gift to prepare... well, this is one of them. Feeling bold, I wanted to try a peculiar technique used since the VI century from jewelers in the mediterranean area to cast small objects: Cuttlefish Bone casting. The cuttlefish bone is soft enough to be…
A guide to using clay or cuttlefish bones to create a cast for pewter.
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This ancient, simple, accessible method for casting small objects in metal exploits the amazing properties of a naturally-occurring and easily-worked high-temperature mold-making material.
These were examples the class instructor brought for us to view. Here was the class description: "Learn how to easily and cheaply produce small tokens, jewelry and dress accessories the way it was done in the Middle Ages. Students will learn about the use of pewter tokens, badges and trinkets in the 14th and 15th centuries, and will have the opportunity to produce a small piece of their own, carving a soapstone mold and casting it themselves. Instructors will provide soapstone for a mold, metal for casting, all tools, dust masks and a handout of period examples."
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Today I am going to show and tell you about stone moulds for casting. Specifically, those found at the Herbert museum in Coventry. For those of you who don’t know, Coventry is a city in central England, inasmuch as anywhere can be thought of as central England, east of Birmingham and far older. It…
Catch up with Kim's 12 Months Of Metal tutorials on Kernowcraft's blog: https://www.kernowcraft.com/blog/12-months-of-metal-challenge-with-make-it-kimWATCH M...
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Soapstone hand-carved molds with pewter castings and a crucible in the shape of those used in the 14th century. Medieval metal casting
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A cast lead alloy button probably dating from the Late Medieval period. It is circular and domed with a thickened rim. It is decorated with radial lines on the dome. A broken flat tab projects from the back. There would have eben a sewing hole
