For anyone else making foundry tools and wanting to get something close to what the pros would use, there are pages from Smelko Foundry Products...
Weekend project! I doubt it works any better than the cheap marking gauges you can get for $20 at Home Depot, but I didn't have one of those yet...
A friend came across this old set of forged crucible tongs in his travels. [ATTACH] I thought the horizontal bar on one rein was an interesting...
Clay aka Cast Iron Machines on YT and IG is a local guy who restores old machines. He's converted the old pig sty on his family farm into a...
FYI, I grabbed these under "metal ball cake decorating tools" online. They seem to work well. My first time messing with wax fillets. Way...
Time for a new project. Dave Clark the Pattern Guy's safety sander works great for pieces of wood that are too small to go through a planer (or...
We've probably all seen Mr. Pete's classic series about casting an aluminum matchplate pattern. If not, it's here:...
Check this out, this guy appears to have built a jolt squeeze and a ...mold separator? into a convenient workbench. He's got a pedal operated...
I've been working on a new project for a couple months now and it's been taking up all my free time, so I'm well past overdue to post some details...
Made these for a local guy with a laser cutter who is building a fancy display shoebox for his customer. I never heard of fancy display shoeboxes...
I have a friend who is looking for electric melters and asking me for advice. Earlier he mentioned he would like to go the induction route, using...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I don't think it's shrink. For one thing, although it's pretty much a flat pattern that I have cast half a dozen times with...
Came across this guy in my youtube feed recently, you shell guys may find it interesting. Latest one is about customizing his slurry mix....
My blacksmith friend contacted me about a possible casting job. He has a customer who is repairing a carousel horse of some kind and need these...
On this older phone everything works fine, but with my newer phone that I normally use to browse the forum and the internet in general, I somehow...
Time for something silly I've been thinking about doing for several years. ...He has a smell, too, the Pear-shaped Man; it is a sweet smell, a...
Lost foam-specific thread here:...
I find myself having 90 extra minutes of free time 5 days a week due to working from home, so foundry season is off to a good start for me this...
For when you just feel like melting metal, but don't actually have any artistic or machinery projects that need parts cast right now... Sometimes...
I have 2 decent sized sheds that I work in and around doing hobby projects, etc. One attached to the house, which we call the Woodshed since that...
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