{"id":2584,"date":"2014-11-19T03:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2014-11-19T03:51:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:51:04","slug":"seated-gargoyle-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/seated-gargoyle-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Winged dog cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the mold for the seated winged dog, it took 3 gallons of Rebound 25 rubber and 125# or so of pottery plaster for the shell. I cast the first plaster cast from it tonight, it took almost two 5 gallon pails to fill, and exactly 100# of the Densite plaster.<br \/>\nAfter hollowing it out as much as I could while it was setting, the wet out of the mold weight is 100#<br \/>\nSo if I figure 19 quarts of water used is about 40#, less what was in the waste from hollowing him out, I&#8217;ve noticed about half the weight of water used in plaster casts evaporates, the other half stays chemically bound, so the cast pictured should wind up around 85# which means even crated it can ship FedEx ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PICT3050sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PICT3050sm.jpg\" alt=\"PICT3050sm\" width=\"432\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2586\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the mold for the seated winged dog, it took 3 gallons of Rebound 25 rubber and 125# or so of pottery plaster for the shell. I cast the first plaster cast from it tonight, it took almost two 5 gallon pails to fill, and exactly 100# of the Densite plaster. After hollowing it out as much as I could while it was setting, the wet out of the mold weight is 100# So if I figure 19 quarts of water used is about 40#, less what was in the waste from hollowing him out, I&#8217;ve noticed about half the weight of water used in plaster casts evaporates, the other half stays chemically bound, so the cast pictured should wind up around 85# which means even crated it can ship FedEx ground.<\/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-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","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=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}