[Jewelry making - Article 00406] - Re: [Orchid] Casting Tree Bark

[Douglas Turet]

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    Hi Michael, I read your posting to the Orchid List, yesterday, with a
    mixture of appreciation and bewilderment, and thought I'd better ask
    you, before proceeding with my own experimentation... (Concerning
    that appreciation, can I take you up on your offer to Will and
    others of a free sample of your company's "Quick Sil" RTV compound?
    If shipping to a P.O. address is a problem, please contact me
    off-list and I'll gladly provide you with a suitable shipping
    address.) As far as the bewilderment's concerned, I'm more than a
    little curious about how you'd make an effective casting of a porous
    material such as tree bark, especially one as dimensionally unstable
    once wet (unless the RTV is to be painted onto the tree...). 

    For one thing, wouldn't your RTV compound adhere to the bark to such
    a degree as to render the two inseparable? If a releasing agent were
    first applied to the wood/bark, wouldn't it be absorbed by the
    latter, leaving you either back where you'd started, or swelling the
    bark, substantially? If not, could you please explain why not? 

    Thanks, Michael, I look forward to hearing/reading your reply. 'Til
    then, 

    All my best, Doug Douglas Turet, GJ Lapidary Artist, Designer &
    Goldsmith Turet Design P.O. Box 162 Arlington, MA 02476 Tel. (617)
    325-5328 eFax (928) 222-0815 anotherbrightidea AT hotmail.com


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