Hello,
my name is Graeme Park and I read Ganoksin a lot but I don’t write
all that much. I thought that I would just send you my new website
address to appall/enthrall you, its www.craeven.eu. I’m self taught,
living in a foreign country with wife and 2 kids to support. It’s
taken me about 5 years of scrimping and saving money,stealing time
whenever I can etc etc to get this far. Everything I do is
ultimately supposed to be mass produced so I concentrate on lost wax
casting and now have everything I need to get up to the casting
stage, at this point I let a casting shop do that. I always await
eagerly getting my castings back, it is so exciting to have them.
They do such a fantastic job for a good price. I’m also in love with
my tools that enable me to make anything I want to now, in particular
my milling machine, that I can rotate and mill at different angles to
the table. Also I like my latest acquisition - a very basic (manual
pump) wax injector. Now I don’t have to resort to all sorts of tricks
to compensate for the fact that I was filling my molds with wax via
gravity alone. Bliss. I like very much medieval designs and I do
quite close copies of things that I like or else I do pieces
“inspired by…”. I’m always amazed at how craftsmen 500 years ago
made such complicated pieces with such little technology at hand… I
suppose they had more time! Now I have made a small collection that
is relatively coherent as a whole and my next project is to build up
my website and get it connected to the web properly etc etc and then
make some more pieces. Also I’d like to do some pieces in gold!!!
Yummy. I like Ganoksin for technical advice and also to see what
other people are doing and for motivation etc and as soon as I can
figure out how, I’m going to send some pictures to the gallery and
make it a link to my new website.
Thanks, Graeme.