{"id":816,"date":"2018-12-17T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/?p=816"},"modified":"2022-10-24T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:48:58","slug":"lewis-chessmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/2018\/12\/17\/lewis-chessmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Chessmen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While learning how to make molds I became accidentally obsessed with the Lewis Chessmen.  We saw them first two years ago on our trip to Scotland and I tried to 3-D print one to make a test mold out of when I went to NM.  The 3-D print wasn’t detailed enough and soon after I discovered that I could purchase pre-made molds.  They are latex, not especially durable, and  I’m a bit afraid to cast resin in them.  I ruined one already by trying to cast wax into it and then couldn’t get the wax back out again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The originals are from the 12C and were discovered on the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.  There are 78 chess pieces in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the original chessmen in Edinburgh.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A bishop.  One of my molds includes this particular figure.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A berzerker.  This would take the place of a Rook.  I LOVE him.  Alas, he is not included in my set of molds.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The sets were originally white (walrus ivory) and red (paint).  I’m tryint to re-create that original look.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Playing around some more with warmer\/cooler casts and one silver-on-black just to see how it looks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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While learning how to make molds I became accidentally obsessed with the Lewis Chessmen.  We saw them first two years ago on our trip to Scotland and I tried to 3-D print one to make a test mold out of when I went to NM.  The 3-D print wasn’t detailed enough and soon after I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,138,50],"tags":[54,17,142,139,140,141],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-mold-making-art","category-travel","tag-archaeology","tag-art","tag-chess","tag-chessmen","tag-lewis-chessmen","tag-stone-casting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A0tE-da","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}