[papercreters] Re: just wondering

There is a part of me that is wondering what is the basic overall geometry of the structure you are building in the first place.

Is wire even required? Papercrete can be made so inexpensively it may be practical to form a solid sculpture out of papercrete and eliminate the need for wire altogether.

Of course, that all depends upon exactly what your sculpture is going to be and whether there will be portions that require a lot of tensile strength.

In general, the best place to put chicken wire, stucco wire, or any other reinforcement of papercrete is not inside the papercrete at all. The strongest place to have the reinforcement is to place the wire on the surface of the papercrete and embed it in a stucco layer.

Keep in mind that the reinforcement may not need to be wire at all. Nylon fabric netting mesh can be extremely effective. Or burlap, or any number of other materials can be embedded in a thin surface bonding layer.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, eo greensticks wrote:
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> i am applying papercrete to a chicken wire structure.



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