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Pastimes : Archaeology
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To: Carolyn who wrote (3401)11/10/2014 11:05:12 PM
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Hammering out the discs into the saucers would take a few hours ea maybe these guys were fast & skillful ... see the repousse that creates the standout relief on the outer cup shell, now thats a great skill used down the ages, some beauty examples here
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Then you have the lost wax castings which are neat, ingenuous technique because you can keep making more molds from your original, so the better the wax carver/sculptor, the better the piece. Those little angels are an example and all you do then is solder them on. The cup might take 3-7days in a good shop with the finishing & repousee taking the most amount of time, they would have discs & castings done & pre-cut, lots of hammering

(& always keeping the fires stoked, for annealing when the metal gets too hard/brittle from hammering)
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