Past Work - Cast Glass Trophy
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I started by making a box the shape of the eventual trophy, placing a clay runner in it and filling it with hot wax. | This made a solid wax version of the trophy which I put in another box that I filled with flint and plaster slurry. | |
When the flint and plaster had hardened, I steamed out the wax, let the mould dry, filled it with glass, put it in a kiln, heated things up to melt the glass and then cooled it slowly to anneal it. | This is the end result after a lot of grinding, polishing and a fair amount of anguish when things didn't go right. I bought special masks for the lettering, which was sand-blasted. |