In this follow-up post I was going to show you the carving process from start to finish. Unfortunately I had a devastating hard drive failure and my back-up was mostly corrupted, so I lost some of the layout photos. You can find the process in some past posts - like here -
Layout of image
I did make a short video of carving - it looks as though I'm in fast motion, but it was real time....I guess I was in a hurry to make it a short video!
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The finished wax with original shard and enlarged print-outs of the image. |
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Setting up the frames around the wax for pouring the plaster mould. |
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Plaster poured and leveled. |
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Plaster released from the mould. |
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Touching up a few small bubbles in the plaster. |
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Wax original and plaster mould. |
It was a great first pouring of the plaster. Unhappily, all the photos of pressing the tile, bisque tiles, and glazing are lost. But I am waiting for the completed installation shots from the customer and I'll post those when I am able.
Thanks so much for reading and please contact me directly at lestile@nycap.rr.com if you have any questions, or if you have a tile that you would like reproduced or custom carved.
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