{"id":815,"date":"2023-12-12T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:41:27","slug":"slipcasting-my-horn-mould-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Slipcasting my horn mould. Finally."},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s finally dry enough to slip cast, woooooo hooooooooo!!!<\/span><\/div>\n
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I’m going to do a really thick first cast to make sure it’s as stable as possible so it survives after I put the curve into it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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James was helpful suggesting a technique where we could safely tip the mould out together using a large piece of stuffing to support it’s weight. As you can see, the cast is nice and thick.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I left it draining for a few hours (3ish), keeping everything crossed that it would come out well.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Looks like a portal inside.<\/p>\n
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I’ve left it overnight to dry a little and will take it tomorrow and try to bend the cast into a pleasing horny shape.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s finally dry enough to slip cast, woooooo hooooooooo!!! I’m going to do a really thick first cast to make sure it’s as stable as possible so it survives after I put the curve into it. James was helpful suggesting a technique where we could safely tip the mould out together using a large piece […]<\/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-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}