Jim's request and Edley's interesting links reminded me of a
material which I've always intended to experiment with, but haven't,
yet. The material is 'ciment fondue' usually produced by the Lafarge
Process, whatever that is. It is a form of cement, black in colour,
I believe, and is often used as a material for sculptures and
apparently is suitable for outdoor applications, though I doubt it
would pass the 'two centuries' test.
I tried a quick search on the Web, but didn't come up with
much of use. Most of what I've found in the past has been in books
on sculpting. Perhaps this will jog someone else's recollection and
they provide actual experience of using ciment fondue.
Peter
<snip> In the
mean time I looked around on the net and found a few references.
http://www.ferrocement.net/archives/msg10857.html for instance has
some notes by
Davidovits himself, and a lot of ornamental casting info appears on
http://www.makersgallery.com/concrete/howto.html and connected pages. Pretty
thrilling to think about, some of it.
<from Edley>
<snip>I was very interested in your last posting to the SML, dealing with the
book about cast stone. I have experimented in that area and was
interested to learn a bit more about the book that you mentioned.
Could you shed a bit more light on some of the formulas that you
mentioned? Which ones did you try and how did they work out?
<from Jim>
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