Aluminum Salamanders
We're closing in now. I believe the end of the Age of Aluminum is in sight. The goal this time was to make a good salamander. And I finally went full-in and made properly vented molds. We started using this cool, albeit perhaps unnecessary, wax-dripper tool that people (like my sister-in-law ) use for decorating Easter Eggs. It helped to glue the sprues and vents to the legs. Here are all the patterns ready for molding. There was a yoni-lingam, a pinecone and Mrs. Willendorf in there, too. One of the molds had some cardboard fuzz on it from the box I used, reminding me a little of the great footnote about Gilgamesh/Enkidu in Silo's, Universal Root Myths : "T he fact that Enkidu is born covered with hair (“the hero was born with his body covered with hair as thick as the barley of the fields”) could refer to the visible presence of materials added to reduce plasticity (cereal cuttings, straw, and so on), which were added to the clay to prevent it from cracking...&