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Pike jaw
paleltuma -
Sunday, April 6, 2008 - 2:34pm
bronze casting sandcast | Other Metal Gallery  It's Pikes jaw. I made 2 piece sandcasting and weltend them together. It's 7%tin and 93%copper. Finished with silver coat.  it might be just a fish
paleltuma -
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 1:09am
it might be just a fish story but we must remember that the middle section of the pikes jaw is cartilage so it's flexible. It's hard to say what it were suppose to be wide.  That's very cool, but why
visitor -
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 7:44am
That's very cool, but why didn't you just make it out of copper (without the tin, or the silver coat)?  pure copper is a pain to
Gene Olson -
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 7:49am
pure copper is a pain to cast, bronze is easy. Gene Olson The reasen for tin is
paleltuma -
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 1:54pm
The reasen for tin is melting point. For silver coat... I welded the pieces together with silver, so i hid the seam. I don't understand why you
visitor -
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 9:51pm
I don't understand why you covered up the copper with silver. Why must we subscribe to the Olympic standard... gold, silver, bronze/copper? You might have well just painted it, and disguiested it's true nature. Please don't take this personally. I just don't beleive in changing the nature of what is, is... Painting would be the last
paleltuma -
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 1:05am
Painting would be the last thing to do. It was my school work. We dont use glue, paint or stuff like that. We leave those to kinderGarden. |
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25 cm, now that's quite a
25 cm, now that's quite a fish story.
;-)
Gene Olson
Sculptor
Elk River, MN