After a long and terrifying day we cast some of my latest wax creations in silver! Terrifying because, for the first time, we did it without the help of our head of workshop, Johannes Kuhnen, a highly successful, fantastic metalsmith. After a collaborative effort from several of my peers, I now feel confident in doing two of the three steps entirely flying solo.
This first piece is the garden rods piece, not entirely successful as one of the buds detached during investment (and floated to the top) and another broke off after the successful cast and needs to be soldered back on.
The second piece is the entirely successful cast of the splayed rods! (In the sketch i've called it "rayed"). I need to make some ring bases to attach these beautiful pieces to!
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