The not so lost wax casting.

I think you'll need more head pressure (longer feed sprue/riser) to ensure proper casting of something that thin. Just my 2 cents though, shell often surprises me.

 

I'm on layer 4. No turning back now. I'll pour it screaming hot. Shell makes up for my ignorance and saves my ass.

 

I love free stuff. Especially when it's 70bucks a sq ft granite found in a dumpster. The guy told me his 20ft long dumpster JUST got emptied last week. There was enough stone in that thing I could have covered my DRIVEWAY in it! I decided to go simple. 4"x4" block. The bronze will have a peg on the back that turns down into the granite. Nice and simple.
And get this! Today I was watching a guy in Seattle grinding out some granite and he had 999subs. I couldn't leave him hanging so I subbed and I won a granite polishing kit! I offered to pick up shipping, but he said NOPE. Now I have the gear to polish the sides of these slabs. Ain't life grand some days! The guy does some real quality work. (of course he does, his name is Jason)
Maybe we can get him into casting metal! I bet he'd be good at it! https://www.youtube.com/user/jkotar20





Btw, anyone shopping for a good quality wet saw, I cannot recommend this dewalt enough. I've owned lots of wet saws and this one is the cats ass.
Best grand I've ever spent to cut large format tiles. Setup right, it's dead on balls accurate.

 

Ha! I got Just enough twist to get the job done.

 

and I learned another valuable lesson... Head pressure. Got it! When I was welding this thing on, I would have given 50bucks for another 1/4"

 

That's what she said!!

 

Enjoy the show!

 

I like the video man. A big improvement over earlier ones. Really interesting to watch.

I'm surprised you packed the crucible with that large triangle piece. Looked like it was touching both ends of the crucible. I'm always afraid to do that since metal expands quite a lot.

 

Thanks guys... That book must be helping my work. I'm trying to get better at shooting with short shots to keep things moving. I screwed the pour with the gopro. As luck would have it, my fire guard aka my wife filmed it with her phone and saved the day.

Zap, I pack a crucible pretty full, just never tight. Theses pieces are actually for Christmas for these folks. Only the 2 wives know I was working on something and had them check my accuracy for the shape. They are sworn to secrecy and should forget all about it by Christmas.

 

Great video!!

Glad your friends don't have access to YouTube...

 

Yeah I don't think they are subbed... Hope not.