Aluminum Hiking Boots: What Was I Thinking?!!
Several years ago, I had to cast two works in metal for a sculpture class. I'd already done a bronze casting (see Lost Wax and a Bronze Barbie), so I thought I'd change things up and preserve a pair of old hiking boots in aluminum. However, to use the lost wax process I'd employed for my bronze, I needed a WAX REPLICA of each boot !!
Under the guidance of sculpture professor Roger Columbik, here's how I turned canvas hiking boots to wax . . .
