| Step 5: Covering wax with ceramic shell mold |
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| The wax owl is now ready to be covered with a ceramic shell mold. |
| To do this, the wax is dipped many times into a mud like solution called slurry. |
| Each time the waxes are dipped and dried, the ceramic shell coating gets thicker. |
| Above, two "Spring Snow" owIs are on
a drying rack in the slurry room. This process of dipping and then drying is then repeated, sometimes up to eleven times. |
| Between coats of slurry, the wet surface is covered with sand. |
| The finished ceramic shell mold is about 1/2 inch thick on all surfaces of the wax -- including the inside! |
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