A couple of photos and lots of nice words!

From Chris Elizardo:

Ok Folks, bare with me here, this is only my second attempt at working with wax and my first attempt at Willow's FUSE wax created by Eric Sosa. I have to say that this piece has been real fun so far andI have ways to go before I'm happy but, this stuff is the BOMB!!! most of the work was done with no heat at all and is probably comparable to gray Super Sculpey's hardness, NICE!!! I do have a collection of wax working tools including a foredom waxer, which I haven't used yet on this piece, but I'm looking forward to giving it a try and a regular sculptors wax torch which I have used slightly so far. As some of you guys might know I live in Texas and this sculpt was done to this point in the car while I waited for my wife, Its been in the 90's down here so getting the wax to soften up some only took setting it on the dash in a plastic bag. I highly recommend that if you are thinking about playing around with wax, you have to try FUSE you won't be sorry!! The only question I would have for you experts out there that use FUSE on a regular basis is, how does it hold up to shipping? ......ERIC? Oh, the sculpt is 5 3/4 inches tall in Bowen scale
Thanks for looking guys!!!! Chris Now go get you some!!!!!!
http://www.sculptorforhire.com/

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From Erick Sosa:

Hello Chris! Long time no talk. I am happy for you , nice to hear you like Fuse, I have lately been using 360 for small portraits by the way,it is a bit harder. I have shipped stuff in Fuse and haven't had a problem. I have shipped statues in Fuse all the way to Argentina, ask Martin Canale, the piece got there without a dent Your Logan looks awesome BTW!_________________

http://www.thesculptorscorner.com/Sosa.htm

Gerald... More work in progress!

Gerald Gore continues to amaze many with his textures. I think the key to his success is that he just gets on with the work at hand. He doesn't have a wax pen! But yet look at the results.

Gerald says: " The details are still pretty rough and need a lot of fine tuning. For the top section of the tail I created little strips or clumps of wax that were added to various stages of the tail. The base texture on the neck is created with a rock (strategically creating a pattern into the wax) The balls of wax on top of that were added piece by piece. The nose was carved line by line with a sharp tool. I don't have a wax pen yet so I do most of the carving and shaping with loop and dental tools. Hope that helps.

Gerald

http://www.polymerclayfan.com/

http://www.myspace.com/geraldgore

Amazing textures on FUSE

Gerald Gore has done some mind boggling textures on this work in progress.

See more of Gerald's work here:

http://www.myspace.com/geraldgore

Thanks Daniel!

Modern technology is amazing! Thanks Daniel for updating homepage links.
Sent from hospital via cell phone.
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General update

While my mom is still at the hospital (a fighter and as tough as anyone I've met) , modern technology is allowing me some connectivity. And email via the blackberry has been a blessing here.

Good news is that Jake will be back to mixing wax this weekend and getting the new orders out.

Thanks to all for continued support and orders.

Please send an email to me personally if you have any issues with your order or correspondence.

Garyo@willowproducts.com
Garyo
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Leadtime

Jake informs me that all paid invoices have been either shipped or prepped to go out today.

We'll keep the 2 week leadtime as plan, even though he beats that most of the time. Main reason for not changing that is events like next week where production will cease for 6 days due to Jake's travel.

But he'll be back soon and the skipped days are but a blip on the celestial calendar.

Thanks again to all ....for the orders, kind words, patience, and exploration.

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Almost over jetlag

Back to work on a new product for lost wax casting . A wax that is opaque , model-able , AND will burn out clean for casting metals via the 5000 year old process of lost wax method.

Tall order for one wax, but initially this looks promising.

To the laboratory!

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