. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. \ Carving inMetal CHAPTER XXIII Casting—The Cuttlefish Mold—Flasks—The Loam—Smoking the Mold—Slate or Bath-brick Molds Very small castings, such as reliefs to setin rings and sprays of foliage, heads, birds,13 193 Casting Casting etc., can very easily be done in cuttlefishbone. Choose a clean and perfect speci-men cuttlefish, cut it in half, and rub eachface perfectly flat. Insert three smallregister pegs in one face (fig. 130), leavingplenty of room between for the the two faces together, so
. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. \ Carving inMetal CHAPTER XXIII Casting—The Cuttlefish Mold—Flasks—The Loam—Smoking the Mold—Slate or Bath-brick Molds Very small castings, such as reliefs to setin rings and sprays of foliage, heads, birds,13 193 Casting Casting etc., can very easily be done in cuttlefishbone. Choose a clean and perfect speci-men cuttlefish, cut it in half, and rub eachface perfectly flat. Insert three smallregister pegs in one face (fig. 130), leavingplenty of room between for the the two faces together, so that they. Fig. 130. fit absolutely close. Lay the pattern,which must not be anywhere undercut,in the space between the pegs, and pressthe two halves of the mold carefully andfirmly, so that you may get a perfectlyclear impression. Take them apart, re- 194 • move the pattern, make a funnel-shaped Castingchannel for the metal, also channels forair-holes, leading radially outward (), and tie the mold up with binding-
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