TobhoMott

1166 pts ยท September 7, 2017


backyard metal casting hobbyist since 2013; thinly veiled raging ASoIaF nerd since 2005.

Art casting with sculptor Paula Fraser, session 1: metal masks

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Foundry project: Making patterns to make castings to make patterns to make castings

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Another antique artificial horse part reproduction project!

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Sand molder's tools

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Art Casting with sculptor David Perrett, 2024 photo dump

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Photos from the Great Canadian Rust Fest 2023 (mostly of wood working machines)

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2015 waste oil fired foundry furnace build pix

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I made a fun cast aluminum workshop door sign for my backyard foundry

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More shed/shop door plaques from my home foundry

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New pouring shank for A12 and B12 crucibles

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A quick tour of my newly upgraded foundry, which used to only be usable in nice weather

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Custom cast bronze bolting plates for a new customer

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Lost wax foundry furnace and kiln burners and control panel

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Greensand molding - Making loose piece plaster follower patterns

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Testing my new oversized Moya waste oil burner (follow-up to http://imgur.com/gallery/Ha0ueOC)

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Dollar store "pattern letters" for backyard metal casting

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How to build the Kwiky All Flask Foundry Vibrator

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First castings molded and poured in my new foundry.

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Tuyere installed in new furnace

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I acquired Bill Jurgenson's whole bronze art foundry!

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Foundry hobby - best cheapest safest tongshank (combined crucible tongs and pouring shank) for small crucibles

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George R. R. Martin's "The Pear-Shaped Man" - a lost Cheez Doodles casting

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Building a new lightweight and more portable melting furnace, custom fitted to my #12 crucible

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Homemade molding bench for greensand casting

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Casting antique carousel horse stirrup leather holder reproductions in bronze in my home foundry

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Building an oversized Moya burner for my foundry furnace

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My latest bronze axe is ready for delivery!

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More progress on the new foundry furnace: working on the lid

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Progress on my new foundry furnace

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First coat of Satanite installed in my new low mass foundry furnace

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New molding flask built for new alignment hardware

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Casting a permanent foundry matchplate pattern for sand casting

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First time building and using a match plate pattern in my home foundry

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Greensand molding flask alignment hardware

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Just completed a 6h beginner blacksmithing class with my son at Van's Blacksmithing

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Fire

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The intersection of backyard metal casting, coal forge blacksmithing, and dark matter research?!

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Home Foundry - More Dabbling With Bronze Patination

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Pipe-hawk Pattern Completed in Time for Canada's Legalization Day

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Gingery "Charcoal Foundry" furnace for casting aluminum, c. 2014

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More progress on pipe-hawk foundry pattern

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Kijiji score: got some new toys for my foundry!

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Casting plaster foundry coreboxes in Lego molds

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Pipe hawk pattern progress pic

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Found some old pix of the first foundry corebox I ever made

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Aluminum bronze pipe-hawk is now usable

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Homemade Peening Anvil Cast in Aluminum Bronze

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Beginnings of a new pattern for a pipe-hawk.

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Casting day! Aluminum bronze pipe hawk

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Valyrian Bronze Axe Making Firewood

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Sand casting a cast aluminum sand rammer tool for making sand molds

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Aluminum bronze pipe-hawk: starting the finishing work

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Even more finally completed pipe-hawk foundry pattern

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Last minute pipe-hawk pattern tweaks

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My sister installed the house number plaque I made for her.

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Aluminum bronze pipe-hawk casting cleanup update

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Pipe hawk pattern completed. For really really really this time.

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