{"id":2445,"date":"2014-08-07T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2014-08-07T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:32:08","slug":"nr-169-gargoyle-first-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/nr-169-gargoyle-first-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Nr 169 Gargoyle first cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made the first cast this morning from the new mold, the mold was not terribly difficult to work with but it&#8217;s very large and since the plaster shell of it is fresh it still has about 5 to 6 gallons of free water in it that has to evaporate out, meanwhile the extra weight of the water adds about 50 pounds of excess dead-weight.<br \/>\nI still need to cast a master to store away for future use in replacing the mold,  and one for a client&#8217;s order today as well.<br \/>\nIt took 4 gallons of water in two 5 gallon buckets mixed with the cast-stone to make enough slurry to fill the mold.<br \/>\nThose full 5 gallon buckets are heavy as hell to lift with the wire handle they come with, it&#8217;s about 68# each when full and I filled 2 up for the cast of the other gargoyle Nr 170 that I did yesterday not remembering exactly how much it would take. I had mixed up 2 full buckets as my notes from the last time I cast one of those indicated it took 4 gallons of water and I couldn&#8217;t remember if that was to completely fill the mold up with some left over, exactly the amount needed, or if was short, so I used 4-1\/2 gallons of water to be on the safe side and those  buckets wound up taking 50# and then some of the cast-stone. I wound up with almost half a bucket full left over, fortunately I was able to use part of it elsewhere on the spur of the moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"750\" height=\"615\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2446\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"750\" height=\"532\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first cast in the Old Limestone Grey finish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/sculptures\/169a.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made the first cast this morning from the new mold, the mold was not terribly difficult to work with but it&#8217;s very large and since the plaster shell of it is fresh it still has about 5 to 6 gallons of free water in it that has to evaporate out, meanwhile the extra weight of the water adds about 50 pounds of excess dead-weight. I still need to cast a master to store away for future use in replacing the mold, and one for a client&#8217;s order today as well. It took 4 gallons of water in two 5 gallon buckets mixed with the cast-stone to make enough slurry to fill the mold. Those full 5 gallon buckets are heavy as hell to lift with the wire handle they come with, it&#8217;s about 68# each when full and I filled 2 up for the cast of the other gargoyle Nr 170 that I did yesterday not remembering exactly how much it would take. I had mixed up 2 full buckets as my notes from the last time I cast one of those indicated it took 4 gallons of water and I couldn&#8217;t remember if that was to completely fill the mold up with some left over, exactly the amount needed, or if was short, so I used 4-1\/2 gallons of water to be on the safe side and those buckets wound up taking 50# and then some of the cast-stone. I wound up with almost half a bucket full left over, fortunately I was able to use part of it elsewhere on the spur of the moment. The first cast in the Old Limestone Grey finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}