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RE: DixiesilverGirl talks about Casting
Found your post through @bengy entry post in the pay it forward contest this week and I must admit that I know nothing about the pours or metal crafts.. but reading through your post and see the pictures, it must be a full concentration of work.
What do you mean by on graphite, sand and wood here? Do you mean the metal liquidbwas pouring into the elements to get the characters?
thank you for reading and yes there are many mediums you can pour the molten metal into.
A graphite mold is a precut design that will give you a similar shape after every pour and the back of the pour will always be flat, for a wood pour you cut the shape into the desired wood you would like to use and pour the metal in, it creates so many interesting lines and usually takes a couple of pours into the same mold for the best lines, finally the sand casting is when the mold is created in special sand that holds the shape and you pour the metal and that is how we get the 3 d items.
we do live pours on Instagram and YouTube weekly, we would love to have you join us, we really enjoy when people join in and ask questions about the process or simply enjoy the fire show lol
I'll check on youtube later 😉 have no insta 😊 actually I deleted my account. Thank you for the explanation.. so it is special sand not just any sand.
thank you! and yes the sand used is called Delft Clay or a less expensive option of Petrobond it is a very fine red clay with oils added and very pricey