Following my cheapskate thread I've been doing a little more experimenting.
One of the techniques I use when making stone walls, flagstones and the
like is to use plaster of paris in a thin shim over a wooden former and
then carve out the shape of the stones, flags, sets etc. It's very long
winded process but has the advantages of being cheap a 3kg (wow I've just
used a French measurement!) sack of Plaster of Paris costs about £2 and the
result looks very good.
Well what I tried today was adding various amounts of sand and again dust
from the sanding machine to the mix. Sand makes the mix hard to carve when
set, (although Mr Dremel with a diamond burr was happy enough) but the
results were very good indeed. A sand heavy mixture made good rough cut
stone and a dust heavy mix made a good fully finished stone.
Just thought I'd pass it on.
- posted 16 years ago