{"id":25,"date":"2014-04-01T17:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.michelelukowski.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2017-10-24T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:57:26","slug":"another-chasing-pitch-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Another chasing pitch experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I am going to like this pitch. I had some casting wax that I had experimented with as a chasing pitch, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/davidhuang.org\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=9205\">David Huang,<\/a>\u00a0but I didn&#8217;t like it. It was not sticky enough to hold in a vessel and was too soft. So this morning I heated up some pine rosin, \u00a0added some beeswax, and poured in the melted casting wax. To this I added about 5 cups of plaster of paris. The result is a deep red color pitch that seems to have the balance I like of stickiness and firmness. I have a couple vessels that are almost ready to chase and I will try it out. Here is the recipe:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full alignleft\" alt=\"20140401-102713.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140401-102713.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2 lbs. red casting wax<\/p>\n<p>2 oz. beeswax<\/p>\n<p>4 oz. pine rosin<\/p>\n<p>5 cups plaster of paris<\/p>\n<p>I mixed this up in a pot that I had previously used to make a pitch with asphaltum, beeswax, pine rosin, and plaster of paris, so a little bit of asphaltum was melted in, but that&#8217;s OK with me since that would only help make it a little harder and stickier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I am going to like this pitch. I had some casting wax that I had experimented with as a chasing pitch, a la David Huang,\u00a0but I didn&#8217;t like it. It was not sticky enough to hold in a vessel and was too soft. So this morning I heated up some pine rosin, \u00a0added&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,8],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140401-102659.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelelukowski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}