The target today is to have a first cast mouth piece made of pewter. To get there I will heat up pewter to a melting point of around 170–230 °C (338–446 °F). At the same time I will heat up the mold to the same temperature with the tabletop furnice to reduce the temperature difference when casting. The rest should be simple … Pour the liquid pewter into the mold, cool it off in cold water, break the mold and discover the result … Stay tuned!
Eureka! The phase is done!
As you see in the above image the plan worked out better than I thought for the first attempt (I think). The mold internally reflected the shape, the walls are 1mm thick, the overall surface looks good and you can even see the horizontal structure (layer height) from 3D printing the model and the material reached every part of the model. I could now saw the piece off the support structure, file and sand it and polish the part. But that wouldn’t make sense with a prototype pewter model … I will keep it as a memory of “The Beginning”.
