Aluminum Scratch Mold Workshop
For Art All Day
at The Old Barracks Museum, 101 Barrack St, Trenton, NJ, 11/8/14
12 – 5 PM

Make a 6” hexagonal tile by scratching your design into a sand mold, see it poured with
molten Aluminum, and take it home.

Kate and Steve pour
 Kate grabs crucible

Kate Graves and Steve Morse prepare to pour aluminum scratch molds at the recent Wheaton Arts Festival of Fine Craft in Millville, NJ.  Steve, David Peins, and Rachel wenner will be pouring aluminum at The Old Barracks Museum on 11/8/14.  For a cost of $40 (kids thru 16 $30), participants can make a 6” aluminum tile.  Participants can see it poured and if time permits, have it cleaned up to take home.  Else tiles will be mailed for no additional charge.  We have 16 scratch molds available, so order here if you want to be sure to get one.

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Steve checks the melt

Unlike iron casting, which requires a crew, aluminum casting can be a small scale DIY  operation with a homemade furnace running off a small propane tank like a gas grill uses.  Steve and Kate have made and used these furnaces, and will be using one on 11/8. 

 

Pictures below show participants, molds, and finished tiles from the 2013 Wheaton Arts workshop.
Prim
 Prim tile
 Dad and son

R&Rtwo
onetwo