Ladle’s Gumption, the making process, video & photo records

Here’s the video of nearly the whole process involving the making of the sand moulds and pouring of the bronze. It was great! great experience and great learning one of the oldest casting techniques. Will definitively try this again, possibly

Silicate sand casting video, Ladle’s Gumption project

Silicate sand casting technique at Duncan of Jordanstone college of art and design, Dundee university, Scotland. Project, Ladle’s Gumption, by Nuno Borges. With the expert guidance from Roddy Mathieson.

Ladle’s making process, cast bronze

These are photos of the making, some that will complemet the video of the silicate sand casting. The mounting of the moulds, rivetting and final stages before pouring the bronze were not caught on camera but are fairly visible here.

Spoons? Yep, that’ll be coming next!

/Some new work coming… but went out of space!This will save me the upgrade costs to get more space in the website, created a blog still with wordpress that will allow me another 3G of space to start showing some

Riveting, tightening, conforting.

Developing work…

Alternating materials

Live’n’blog Selection of other materials that kept on flowing within the project: bronze, elm wood and glazed ceramics, possible in many scales, from ring size (aprox 2/3 cm) to small decorative (aprox. 5/6 cm) to tableware size (aprox. 20 cm).