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I used an old wallpaper stripper as a steam source to burn, or rather melt, the wax out of my glass investment moulds. The bloke that I bought it off said it was new, which it clearly wasn’t. Still, it works fine and I really hope that the new Tesla parked outside his house doesn’t set fire whilst being driven.<\/div>\n
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If you replicate this process, I cannot stress enough that you must only use a steamer that you can destroy. Because you will<\/i> destroy it.<\/div>\n
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I created a triangular scaffold with spare wood, using this to balance each upturned mold over a bucket to catch the wax as I melted it out with the steamer nozzle. It was a lengthy, messy process and the outside looked really unfortunate throughout. But eventually both were completely empty of wax and clean inside. <\/div>\n
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In order to calculate the volume of the glass I needed to cast in total, I filled up the molds to the level that I wanted the glass to sit at with water, then poured this water into a container and weighed it. This gave me an accurate value for the weight of glass I need for each mold.<\/div>\n
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When the molds were dry after weighing, I was finally ready to cast. I decided to cast one castle in red glass and the other in purple. I wonder which will show more clearly when sat under a pink cloche.<\/div>\n
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I sourced the frit from the shop below and will cast when it arrives:<\/div>\n
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I used an old wallpaper stripper as a steam source to burn, or rather melt, the wax out of my glass investment moulds. The bloke that I bought it off said it was new, which it clearly wasn’t. Still, it works fine and I really hope that the new Tesla parked outside his house doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}