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[IBC] Ciment Fondu
Hypertufa is a way of making 'artificial' Tufa - which is a light
weight stone that can be easily carved. Hypertufa is typically 1 part portland cement, then one part peatmoss, and one part sand or pearlite. It's easy to cast, and can be carved somewhat when green. It makes a lightweight 'stone' that, after a year or so in the weather can support mosses, lichens and algae for a natural look. Ciment Fondu is a high-alumina cement that dries and cures very fast, making multi-layer design simpler. I couln't find it where i live, but i've used "wall cement" instead. This is a very tacky cement that's full of fiberglass shreds for strength. It works well but you've got to burn off the protruding fibers in your 'stone' .... not that hard. "Peter K." wrote in message ... Can someone tell me what exactly cement fondue is? I know what hypertufa is, is cf similar? -- Peter Kulibert zone 4a/5b "dalecochoy" wrote in message news:002201c3f67c$57aae120$0430fea9@dalespc... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Thomas" Subject: [IBC] Ciment Fondu Allen, et al.: I have been following this thread with interest because I had never heard of Ciment Fondu until noting its use in the projects from this beautiful book. Bart, I'm suprised. I thought Chase had done some work with it. If you have the BCI "Indices" you could search it. I remember several years Back when Bill V. had speakers ( Bill Jordan) who did some Ciment Fondue work. I remembr they made a tall mountain that my late friend Mel Tellus bought in the Saturday night auction. I'm sure these pics are in the old mags. Bill, what issue? Shortly after that Brussel began making/selling many sizes of slabs made from it. My old business partner and I got a couple Japanese imported fiberglass slabs and made silicone molds of them and sold them for several years until sales dropped off. I thought Brussel still made them, but, perhaps not if not in his catalog anymore. He had some huge ones.His sales of them probably started to slow down also and since they were labor intensive......they are dropped. My buddy and I got our ciment fondue from a dealer in Cleveland and, as Mike Persianno stated, it was made by Le Farge. It was pretty expensive stuff compaired to mortar., 90 pound bags as I recall, could be colored easily with mortar colors you can get at any supply store. I still have a couple "scoop pots" I made from it over window screen forms. I keep moving them around in my pot shelves in my tea house :) I made several mountains in the past which I donated for auction at some shows. . Somewhere I have pics of these. I used the window screen forms ( you could also use hardware cloth/chicken wire but you got nice bends with window screen.) and then they were made ala paper mache' by cutting strips of fiberglass auto body repai cloth, soaking them in ciment fondue and laying on. After covering you could apply several coats of CF with a brush over next few days. In using the silicone molds we simply covered an existing fiberglass imported slab with mold release and used caulk guns with 100% silicone caulk and the same fiberglass auto body strips ( for strength) to cover the slab. After it set it pulled off and we had a mold that you could lay over a small pile of sand that could be arranged to different shapes however you liked. Regards, Dale Cochoy, Wild Things Bonsai Studio, Hartville, Ohio http://www.WildThingsBonsai.Com Specializing in power wood carving tools. Yakimono no Kokoro bonsai pottery of hand-built stoneware ************************************************** ************************** **** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Marc Zimmerman++++ ************************************************** ************************** **** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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