09-05-2005, 06:47 PM
Hi Jef,
I sodder a bottom to the first chased piece. From this soddered together piece a rubber form or mold is made to cast a solid piece. Might be for some faster to carve the thing out of wax and do away with the chasing, I prefer doing it this way as I learned it from my master goldsmith. Yes I do not work with a negative form but using the cast piece as a punch to stamp the plates from the back side, and since lead is rather soft this will take on the shape of the plate. So it is only a matter of hitting the punch hard enough so that the plate is formed which at 0,3mm and softend brass sheet metal shouldn´t be a problem. With this method I made several dozen plates with Erich König from
Aurificina. Might be not the way most make the plates, but compared to the wax craved ones that depending on how good the person is at it, I find the chased version comes closer to the originals by looks. But that is my personal opinion.
Martin
I sodder a bottom to the first chased piece. From this soddered together piece a rubber form or mold is made to cast a solid piece. Might be for some faster to carve the thing out of wax and do away with the chasing, I prefer doing it this way as I learned it from my master goldsmith. Yes I do not work with a negative form but using the cast piece as a punch to stamp the plates from the back side, and since lead is rather soft this will take on the shape of the plate. So it is only a matter of hitting the punch hard enough so that the plate is formed which at 0,3mm and softend brass sheet metal shouldn´t be a problem. With this method I made several dozen plates with Erich König from
Aurificina. Might be not the way most make the plates, but compared to the wax craved ones that depending on how good the person is at it, I find the chased version comes closer to the originals by looks. But that is my personal opinion.
Martin
