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Molding a crab

It is a secret and a masterpiece to mold it well, because one needs
to proceed differently than with other animals, because its shell is
very difficult to mold burn & in this case, one
le needs to sometimes reheat the mold three
or four times. And with all of this, it leaves a hard crust, grey like
ash. But because it does not mold in one piece & one cast,
like plants, but rather in two casts like snakes that release
well, one removes this crust, not with quicksilver, which
would do nothing, after it
is open, with the very fine point of a pen-knife with
dexterity, as with the little crusts of the second cast, which enter in
the nooks that the sand or the molded animal made. But,
la because it has curved legs, here is the cunning
way & secret for releasing it. Therefore, as you have molded it on
one side, which is on the back, in the same way as others, uncover its
belly, & all its curved legs. Make your second cast in the same way
as others, but, as it will have set, keep from opening the mold
until you have first reheated it well. Otherwise, because of its curved
legs, you would break everything. In this lies the dexterity. If you
recognize, after having reheated & opened it, that the crust is not
burned enough, reheat until it does.


It is painted like a crayfish.

Know thatFor opening the mold, there is
no need to soak it, for once reheated, it will open by itself.


Stag beetle

It is as difficult to burn as a crab, therefore do for it
as you did for the crab.


For molding thin

After you have molded in noyaulae figur the first mold, let it dry well
before taking away the figure of wax, order in order
that the mold does not corrupt. Next, make a small lasagna of
paste of such thickness that you would like, and having smeared
with butteryour the hollow of your first hollow
mold, adapt the paste to it and then make your second
mold on top. If you were to smear with oil, it would be
absorbed & would not be as appropriate as butter.

