[Jewelry making - Article 01416] - [Orchid] Casting rubber and plastics

[Altana Frantz]

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Hello,

    After belonging to orchid for quite some time, i'm actually making
    my first post. My name is Altana and I am a young emerging jewelry
    designer out of the bay area in california. I've studied art and
    design while i was attending university and now in two weeks I will
    be studying at Revere Academy. Right now (because I've only had
    beginner/intermediate experience working in metal and cannot afford
    to start my own metalsmithing studio in my house) I work with found
    objects, fabrics, weavings, and basically with other peoples' junk. I
    started making jewelry on my own and am experimenting with making
    creative cold connections. I've started selling my jewelry in local
    boutiques and modern art museums. 

    I have quite a few questions I would like to ask everyone but I'm
    just starting with a few. I am not in school at the moment so I
    cannot ask a professor. I am also new to the bay area so I don't have
    many networking connections yet. So all the research I've been doing
    is on my own, and im feeling a little overwhelmed. I would love hear
    advice from other artists well established in their careers and even
    other new designers just starting out as well. 

    I love the wax carving & casting methods that I've learned so far in
    all of my classes. I know that I love working with metal, but I am
    extremely interested in plastic resins and rubber. I definitely want
    to explore the possibilties of working with plastic and rubber, but i
    have no idea where to start. I've been searching on the internet but
    I'm just overwhelmed at the amount of imformation there is to sort
    through. I have no idea of what tools I would need to work with
    plastic/rubber. But i would love to be able to cast pieces in
    rubber/plastic instead of using metal. 

    Is this possible using the same basic techniques used in wax
    carving? Are there many of you out there that work with both metal
    and plastic? Any websites that I need to look into? Any suppliers I
    need to know? 

Thanks for your time and responses!
Altana
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