Teaches accessible foundry techniques at colleges around the world.Have foundry, will travel !
Uses for an old pencil A solution to fine "long hole" coringConsultant to the professional casting community in lost wax ceramic shell. Consultancy also available via email.Patent holder for the "Reid Technique", an accessible method for casting aluminium, bronze, silver and gold in the kitchen / studio / where-ever.Sculptor Favoured media -- fluid metals, fire, entropics
Three years researching innovative foundry techniques under a Leverhulme Fellowship at Central Saint Martin's College, Londonworking on:
- Vacuum clamping and support of large thin ceramic casting shells
- Vacuum casting techniques using expanded polystyrene
- Microwave melting and casting of metals
Writing a book on building your own studio scale ceramic shell foundryCurrently working on - a new method of casting dies for the plastics and glass industries that guarantees perfect and dense surface structure
- a lost wax method for net shaping complex ceramic parts
- the pacification of ceramic shell structures to improve the cast surface quality of reactive metals and glass
Some annotated picture pages