Firstly apologies for a lack of progress over the last week or two, there has been a lot of groundwork being put in whilst I have been waiting for materials to arrive in order to continue the moulds for the piece.
Suffice to say I have decided on the best solution to cast the work, due to the size of the piece I will be re-firing a large blast furnace I built a few years back in order to produce the quantities of metal required to successfully cast each section of the work.
This has mean I have had to strip down and fix a few items that I haven’t used in a while, an old Fordson Power major tractor, an old 3 tonne capacity block and tackle gantry as well as fixing the furnace and prepping the mould flask.
The pour has been scheduled for the 9th of May and it will involve the melting of old scrap iron in order to produce this new cast iron piece. There will be more regular documentation of the process over the next couple of weeks and hopefully it should give you a good idea of my day to day working process in my workshop.
I have included a few shots of what I have been prepping over the past couple of weeks with a little help from a few other artists.
