Casting

This information is about casting pewter using a 3mm thick ply mould clamped between two MDF blocks creating a flat plate which is cut and filed down before polishing. This is fairly common now and variations are in use in many schools.

The following files are available:

Jewellery analysis sheet for pupils to consider the emotional aspects of jewellery design. PDF file

2D Designer file with a sample pewter mould drawing

2D Designer file of a small card box net for packaging pewter items

Excel 2000 file of incredibly difficult pewter wordsearch I developed

Excel 2000 file of Sneak answer sheet for the wordsearch (hide from pupils)

Link to Excel reader so you can print worksheet without having Excel

Publisher 2000 file of 4 page evaluation for pewter project

Publisher 2000 file of celebrity words list (Used for task where pupils design a ring, watch and necklace for each one, after first saying what words describe the celebrities)