Pewter Dip-Casting
This ongoing project with A.R. Wentworths of Sheffield is exploring a new aesthetic for pewter objects.
Dip-casting is a process whereby a steel tool is plunged into molten pewter and a skin of pewter forms around the tool.
As oposed to objects made from pewter sheet, the distinctive characteristics of these pieces are their rough exterior surfaces, the fact that each is unique and their relatively heavy weight.
So far two designs have been prototyped using this process, a vase where the top portion of the rough surface has been lathed away, and a spherical ring box that exploits the rock-like finish of the dip-casting.
The vase was awarded 'Pewter Product of the Year 2005' by The Worshipful Company of Pewterers.
