I am experimenting with a new skill in manually carving wax. I can produce wax carvings very nicely with my CAD/CAM but have few options what to do with the carvings when finished. What I intend to do is expand into lost wax casting. The first step is learn all I can about manually producing and most importantly finishing a wax carving. I know the mechanics, now I am learning the art. This pix is...
Continue reading...Well Invested
My daughter Shelley and I became well invested in our craft projects last night. We are taking wax carving and lost wax casting workshops at the Craft Guild of Dallas. Investment is the plaster like material that surrounds our wax carvings and forms the molds for casting our work in silver. The wax is melted and burned out of the investment (the wax is lost) then the cavity is filled with silver, Sterling silver actually....
Continue reading...New Post in RD’s Photo Gallery
I posted a few new pictures in my RD photo gallery. First in the blog section is some shots of my Sony NEX5 wearing a chunk of Minolta lens glass. There will be more to come in that story. http://gallery.ramblindan.org/index.php/pholog/23-la-ea2-lens-adapter I also posted a ranch picture I dug up from one of my old archives. I thought it was rather attractive and worthy of a place in the gallery. You can find it here on the...
Continue reading...KautzPhoto.com Expanding
I am not the only Kautz on my twig of the Kautz family tree with a passion for photography. My daughter Shelley is a professional photographer and is currently expanding her personal web site KautzPhoto.com. Yes, she really earns her keep as a full time photographer. I’ll leave it to her to tell her own story as Dadio (that’s me) may tend to brag on her. Let me just say that her work is first...
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