Thursday, September 27, 2012

Cast and pressed

Below are the cast bronze stamps. 

 My first attempts were using a wax impression of ceramic words which were then cast into bronze.

 The Rhino cut bronze blocks produced much clearer letters. I made the pewter pieces by fly pressing a sandwich of bronze-copper-pewter-copper-bronze.

 This resulted in a double sided pewter piece and two pressed copper pieces.
I tried out some letter punching to use in combination with the pressed words. I managed to get a hold of some typewriter font punches as opposed to the sans-serif fonts.

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