Carving Soapstone for Casting Pewter - PRA07A01

(Created by Frederick Alton a.k.a. Fred Zeiler)

Class Description: Students will learn the basics of carving soapstone for uses in casting token out of pewter.

Class Length: 1 to 2 hours

Level of Content: Beginning

Learning Objectives: By the end of the class, students will know:

• How to identify soapstone
• Good soapstone verses bad soapstone
• The tools needed for carving
• The safety hazards of carving
• Preparing soapstone for carving
• Laying out the design
• Steps in carving a design
• Testing the design

Suggested Teaching / Research Resources:

McCreight, Tim. The Complete Metalsmith (1991)

http://www.warehamforge.ca/casting.html

http://www.warehamforge.ca/pewter.html

http://.syridian.livejournal.com Comments on casting and molds

http://aelflaed.homemail.com.au/doco/pewter.html

http://aelflaed.homemail.com.au/doco/pewterhorse.html

http://aelflaed.homemail.com.au/doco/spangles.html

http://www.florilegium.org/files/CRAFTS/soapstone-msg.html

Syllabus kindly created for RUGA by Frederick Alton, December 2007.