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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 240718, member: 2844"]Please don't use a hot soldering iron or any other invasive method on art. It can do some serious damage and it breaks my heart.</p><p>Retablos are usually family produced. Different families use different materials, often their own mixtures after some trial and error. I have seen plain clay and bread dough, for instance. The latter is ok until the creepy crawlies discover it. I spent a lot of time lacquering some of my mother's retablo figurines.</p><p>Here is the website of Nicario Jimenez, a well-known retablo maker who now lives and works in Florida, US. He uses '<i>a doughy mixture of boiled potato and gypsum</i></p><p><i>powder'</i>:</p><p><a href="http://www.retablosnicario.com/Artist2Frame.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.retablosnicario.com/Artist2Frame.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.retablosnicario.com/Artist2Frame.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 240718, member: 2844"]Please don't use a hot soldering iron or any other invasive method on art. It can do some serious damage and it breaks my heart. Retablos are usually family produced. Different families use different materials, often their own mixtures after some trial and error. I have seen plain clay and bread dough, for instance. The latter is ok until the creepy crawlies discover it. I spent a lot of time lacquering some of my mother's retablo figurines. Here is the website of Nicario Jimenez, a well-known retablo maker who now lives and works in Florida, US. He uses '[I]a doughy mixture of boiled potato and gypsum powder'[/I]: [URL]http://www.retablosnicario.com/Artist2Frame.htm[/URL][/QUOTE]
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