[Jewelry making - Article 00592] - Re: [Orchid] Preparing pitch bowl

[Victoria Lansford]

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    When I teach repousse, I give students the less expensive option of
    using the horrid, sticky, American black pitch (The stuff's like
    road tar!) to fill their bowls and then add a mound of the red pitch
    on top. This allows an all pitch, non cracking consistency without
    the $$$, however, the red pitch is much safer to heat and melt into
    the bowl than the black pitch. 

    You need a mound of the red pitch on top of the bowl on which to
    work, or you will continually have to stop and mound one up when
    working from the front of the piece. Whatever you fill your bowl
    with, let it cool completely, and then pile up a hunk slightly
    smaller than a fist on top, and soften it just enough to make it
    stick together and to the bowl. This will save tons of working time
    later on just be sure never to overheat and mix the 2 kinds of
    pitches together! 

    Those tubs of red pitch look like fudge, don't they?

Victoria
Victoria Lansford
http://www.victorialansford.com
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