MouldMaking and Casting

MouldMaking and Casting
Author: Nick Brooks
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-12-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847977308

Mouldmaking and Casting is a technical manual of the many techniques of this ancient craft and art form. With step-by-step illustrations, it explains the materials required and the processes involved to create reproductions of a range of pieces. The book covers traditional techniques as well as today's more advanced technical methods.

Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting

Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting
Author: Nick Brooks
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Plaster casts
ISBN: 9781847973108

The scope and potential of mouldmaking and casting is fascinating. Its opportunities have been developed and expanded further by a range of new methods and materials only recently made available to the domestic market. This book provides a guide to more advanced techniques in mouldmaking and casting.

Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting

Advanced Mouldmaking and Casting
Author: Nick Brooks
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2013-12-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847977235

The scope and potential of mouldmaking and casting is fascinating, and makes it one of the most exciting processes available to today's craftsmen. Its opportunities have been developed and expanded further by a range of new methods and materials only recently made available to the domestic market. Aimed equally at the student with little pre-existing knowledge and the professional wishing to further their skill base, this book provides an invaluable learning and reference tool for the studio or workshop of any artist, model maker or designer. Covers: jesmonite mould making and casting, bioresin casting, life moulding silicone from the body, large-scale clay press moulding, embedding in clear resin, clay slip casting, plas-ti-shim moulding, and finishing. Supported by step-by-step sequences and full descriptions of traditional processes as well as new methods, it is illustrated throughout with 212 colour photographs.

Modeller's Guide to Mould Making and Resin Casting

Modeller's Guide to Mould Making and Resin Casting
Author: Alex Hornor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781906512576

An in depth manual for modellers that takes the reader through all of the practical aspects of mouldmaking, using materials such as latex and RTV. There is extensive coverage of casting, too, enabling the modeller to produce perfect duplicates from their original pattern. While the text is aimed at mouldmaking and resin casting, covering both simple one and two part moulds, there are other casting materials covered in the book for the modelmaker who wishes to explore other media, including spin casting. There is even a chapter on vacuum forming, with details of how to build and run a 'kitchen sink' vacuum forming operation, showing how to make vaccuum forming something even the beginner can undertake with confidence.

The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook

The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook
Author: Thurston James
Publisher: Betterway Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1989-11-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781558701281

The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook &break;&break;This is the first book to contain, in one comprehensive volume, every molding and casting procedure of use to the theater props builder (no matter what his or her level or proficiency). The author demonstrates the techniques involved in using more than thirty different materials ranging from papier-mache to breakaway glass. &break;&break;While the use of some materials–plaster and polyester resins, for example–is covered to some extent in other publications, information on the selection and use of rubber materials (latex, neoprene, silicone, and the urethanes) and the procedure for making breakaway windows and bottles is available only in The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook. &break;&break;Written in an easy, conversational style, the book will be useful to anyone involved with theater properties, puppetry, and costuming (as professionals or amateurs). It will also serve admirably the needs of students taking classes in those subjects. &break;&break;Completing the book is a special section on designing and building a vacuum forming machine suitable for use in constructing theater props. More than 450 photographs illustrate the step-by-step procedures explained throughout the entire text.

The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting

The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting
Author: Andrew Martin
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2006
Genre: Engobes
ISBN: 9781600590771

For potters, mold making is invaluable because it allows them to slip-cast identical multiples of their work-and this newly revised, now in color edition of Andrew Martin's classic is the definitive guide to the craft. No other volume has shown the processes in such how-to detail. It's overflowing with hundreds of photos, key techniques, projects, master artist profiles, and troubleshooting tips. A thorough introduction addresses materials and tools, and presents Martin's simple, unique template method for making clay prototypes. Create easy one-piece molds to make tiles, bowls, and platters, or multi-piece molds for more complex forms. An extensive overview covers slip formulation, while offering highly desired slip recipes for low-, mid-, and high-fire clay bodies. This will be the standard reference in every ceramist's library.

Secrets of Expert Mold Making and Resin Casting

Secrets of Expert Mold Making and Resin Casting
Author: Karl K. Juelch
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013-10-14
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781492294948

Learn how to make professional quality molds, then use those molds to make precise, flawless castings. Reproduce virtually any three dimensional object once, twice, dozens or even hundreds of times. Informative text and over 100 highly detailed line drawings guide the reader from the basics to very advanced procedures. Emphasis is on low cost materials and equipment ideally suited to the individual artisan or small business owner. A very wide range of artists, crafts and trades people, design professionals and entrepreneurs can use these techniques to increase their productivity and profits. This book is the result of years of research, experimentation and daily use in a professional shop environment.

Slipcasting

Slipcasting
Author: Sasha Wardell
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780812219982

A straightforward, practical guide for those interested in the boundless possibilities of this ceramic technique. The book contains more than one hundred color illustrations, diagrams, and slip formulas, plus examples of the slipcast work of contemporary ceramicists from around the world.

Metal Casting

Metal Casting
Author: Steve Chastain
Publisher: Stephen Chastain
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2004
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780970220325

Mold Making, Casting & Patina

Mold Making, Casting & Patina
Author: Bruner Felton Barrie
Publisher: A.B.F.S. Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Models (Clay, plaster, etc.)
ISBN: 9780963186706

This is a unique publication designed for the amateur sculptor. The comprehensive areas covered include plaster waste molds, for single casts; latex rubber molds, for multiple casting; polyurethane molds for wax casting in bronze; & moulage molds, for casts of life subjects. The text also includes extensive guidance in the repair of casts, as well as mounting for display, & the art of patina, or coloring. The format is designed to make the text easy to read with step by step instruction on all phases of the mold making, casting, & patina process. There are more than 75 line drawings & over 200 black & white photographs showing clearly everything needed to make exacting casts of the original piece of sculpture. The text & illustrations have been designed as a guide to show & describe exactly what the user will be seeing & experiencing as it occurs in front of them. The author, Mr. Barrie, is a member of The National Sculpture Society, in New York City & The International Sculpture Center in Washington, D.C. Mr. Barrie has worked in stone, clay, wood, wax, plaster & plastilina. He has more than twenty years of experience with mold making & casting. To order: FAX 609-466-2450, PHONE 609-466-2986.