[Artemisia] RE: Carving Soapstone

[Sue Clemenger]

I remember that from the class!
Rule #1 is "Hot metal looks just like cold metal," and
Rule #2 is "Hot stone looks just like cold stone." <gg>
--Maire, waiting for Spring, so she can experiment with this stuff.....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele Wolf" <mwolf at telemetric.net>
To: <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: [Artemisia] RE: Carving Soapstone


<snipped>
> One point that I want to make very clear here (Listen up!  Experience
> speaking!) is that soapstone does a good job of sucking up water.
> Therefore, never use the bucket o' water or damp cloth method and then
turn
> around and pour molten metal into it.  This will end up in a volcano o'
> molten pewter.  Give the stone time to dry and then make sure and make a
> pass at it with ye ol' blowtorch to get the rest of the moisture off of
it.
>
> Of course, this doesn't apply in the least to carving something like a
bowl.
> A bucket of water is a very good thing for the bigger carvings.
>
> Just wanted to head off any Horrible Foundry Accidents (see Casting Rule
#3)
> at the pass.  :)