[Jewelry making - Article 00482] - Re: [Orchid] Casting Tree Bark

[YUKHAN]

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    Hi A couple of years ago I worked in a trade shop that specialized
    in hard to cast castings, a local designer brought in a stem of the
    smallest acorn cups attached to the branch I've ever seen [total
    length was 4" and there were 4 branches with two or three cups on
    each the cups were about 4 to 6 mm across]. She wanted them cast in
    silver  we sprued as normal and burned out as normal and centrifuge
    cast at a flask temp of 1000'f they turned out amazingly later she
    said she brought it back from Norway, which explains why i hadn't
    seen anything that small before living in Minnesota all my life,  it
    was from her moms back yard, I was glad I didn't know that before
    for the worry of it not turning out, something I take a little too
    serious sometimes. That proved to me that with a little for-thought,
    any thing can be cast, 

ROBERT L. MARTIN
Gold Smith / Diamond Setter 
yukhan AT aol.com



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