Intermediate Technology Program PEWTER CASTING

Name: silafaga School:pt england

Purpose: To produce an item of jewellery suited to a particular recipient.

Method: Refer to the video showing the production process. Pewter video

Research: a) Consider 3 or 4 people that you might like to gift your pendant to.

For each of these potential recipients, provide some information about them that will help to make an appropriate decision about the shape and style of jewellery that they might appreciate. Tell about their relationship to you, their gender, ethnicity, interests and hobbies, approximate age etc. Talk to them about your project and get their thoughts on what they like.

Recipient 1:mum my mum loves to cook and watching horror movies and sleep. playing

Recipient 2:dad my dad love to work and love to have fun and love to be with me and playing with my sister

Recipient 3:sister she likes look at Baby shark and she like going to the park and she likes playing and sleeping

Recipient 4:brother working he like sleeping and eating and swimming

b) For each of these potential recipients, research some suitable shapes that you think that they would like to wear as a pendant. Paste these images below and add a short statement explaining why these designs were considered. Discuss these with the person that is to receive the gift and add their comments.

Concepts: For each design makes notes about why this would be a suitable (or unsuitable) design for the purpose. Think about the recipient and the

process of manufacture.

Recipient	1	2	3	4
Mum tania.	loves to cook?	watching horror movies??	sleep. playing	????
Dad sey
Baby sister lufi
Older brother kelemete

Many of these images do not relate to what you have written about these people...

Final Design: Choose the design you intend to make and resize the image to the actual size

of the finished product.

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I chose to make this for... my baby sister because…i love her so much and because she is the baby in our family

This was the best design for … a cross because…. We go to church so ya

Specification: Set out below the important qualities that your product must have to be considered to be successfully completed.

Aspect:	Conditions:
Shape
Size
Attachment Method
Finish
Appropriate?

Manufacture: Set out below the step by step method required to produce the finished piece.

(You will find the video useful to complete this section

Step	Process:	Tools & techniques:	Time (est.) mins	Time (real) mins
1	Trace the final design on to a piece of 3mm medium density fibreboard. (MDF)	Print the design on paper, shade the reverse side with a soft pencil, centre the MDF under the paper and trace over it pressing hard.	5
2	Draw over the light lines on the MDF and add lines to form an opening. (Sprue hole)	Pencil. MDF.	5
3	Cut out the ….
4	Mark the sprue positions on two pieces of 4mm MDF and get the teacher to hollow out the sprue areas	Pencil, disc sander (teacher to use)
5	Make sure the pieces are clean and hold them together with a rubber band.	Your teacher will use a gas burner and steel ladle to melt the pewter and pour it into your mould.	10
6	When the casting has cooled..		10
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Materials: We are using Pewter for our project. Look at the page showing the “properties”

of various metals that could possibly be used to make a casting like yours. Select three other metals and give all of the reasons why we would NOT use that metal.

Metal:	Reasons for not using that metal:

Evaluation: Look back at what you wrote in the “Specification” section and compare the

characteristics of your finished project with the qualities you identified in your specification.

Aspect	Comments:

If you had the opportunity to do this project again, what would you change or do differently?

You may add feedback from the recipient after you give it to him/her.

Consider the tools and techniques that you used at the various stages of manufacture of your product. Think about how you used these tools and techniques and how they affect the next stage of manufacture.

Tool/technique:	How does this affect the later stage(s)

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