Essential Guide to Mold Making and Slip Casting

Name: Essential Guide to Mold Making and Slip Casting
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ISBN: 9781600590771

ISBN-10: 1600590772

ISBN-13: 9781600590771

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrew Martin

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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,…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Lark Books
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 8.46" wide x 10.00" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.892



Introduction


An overview


Prototypes and molds


Designing, creating, and using


Tools & materials


Tools


Materials


Supplies


Equipment


Safety


Plaster


Types


Absorption rates


Consistency


Amounts


Mixing


Pouring


Frosting


Plaster prototypes


Mold soap and other separators


Storing


Featured artist


Anne Kraus: A Conversation with the Materials


One-piece molds


Handmade clay prototypes


One-, two-, and three-template clay prototypes


Footed forms


Cups and saucers


Plaster prototypes


Featured artist


Tom Spleth: Cups and Only Cups


Multiple-piece molds


Making


Handles


Spouts


Pitchers


Tiles


Lidded forms


Hollow-cast feet


Fruits and vegetables


No-model molds


Complex molds


Master molds


Advantages


Plaster masters


Rubber masters


Featured artists


Donna Polseno and Richard Hensley: Slip Casting in Production


Slip formulation


Deflocculation


Types of slip-casting clay bodies


Mixing equipment


Mixing


Specific gravity


Viscosity


Mixing wet and dry scraps


Mixing large batches


Featured artist


Richard Notkin: Evolution is Not an Option-It's Essential


Casting


Preparing slip


Preparing molds


Casting


Removing castings


Handling wet castings


Assembling cast parts


Drying castings


Preparing castings for firing


Firing


Troubleshooting


Broken molds


Chipped molds


"Plaster Disasters"


Troubleshooting guide


About the author


Appendixes


Glossary


Contributing artists


Acknowledgments


Index