11-30-2013, 10:26 AM
Patrick.
I don't know exactly what the ancients used in some of their repousse maybe pitch but with much of mine I do at times use 60/40 solder for small jobs, this way it does help to support the relief figures a bit.
Then with larger and deeper relief I have used a plastic padding however if you look careful you will see that the Fulham decoration does not have any filling at all, and at times I do use metal at 10 thou' thick that does at times need to be annealed to be worked and find it can be fairly strong.
I don't know exactly what the ancients used in some of their repousse maybe pitch but with much of mine I do at times use 60/40 solder for small jobs, this way it does help to support the relief figures a bit.
Then with larger and deeper relief I have used a plastic padding however if you look careful you will see that the Fulham decoration does not have any filling at all, and at times I do use metal at 10 thou' thick that does at times need to be annealed to be worked and find it can be fairly strong.
Brian Stobbs
