Beautiful work! A clear, concise explanation of how you achieved such a fantastic result. It was very generous of you to share so much of your process. Thank you.
i'm doing a 350gt Mustang, Revell model car kit, all of the individual pieces cast in bronze and then i'll build it in metal just like how you would a plastic model
Thank you very much for sharing. I dabble with my forge, foundry, lathe and other nice toys, and have often wondered about casting using wood as a contrast. Such a helpful video (and I like the shakey camera, it's organic, real, and shows that it is a guy doing something he enjoys rather than a tedious "Influencer" type - if a video is less about the camera and more about the content, it definitely grabs my interest more). Anyway... I have a few questions but they are all flying around my head in a fuzzy cloud. Once they have condensed into something more concise, I'd love to chat to you about your projects a little more.
Very interesting process. I turn wood and found this looking for a method of pouring metal onto wood, not have much luck but this would be an alternative. I know the tree, I'm from Portland and have spent some time in Bend and around. I just might make a trip over to find some of that wood.
Theres way cooler and twistier versions of the juniper. I picked an easy one. I dont really know how youd pour metal right into it because of the whole fire thing
Those trees remind me of the snow gum, a tree that grows in the few parts of Australia where it snows. BTW if you want to reduce that camera wobble, get a foot of 1/4-20 threaded rod and cast a big ball of bronze onto one end. Thread it into the tripod mount of your camera and you'll have an inertial stability and vibration damping system. The longer the threaded rod, the higher the mass moment of inertia and the higher the damping of rotations. You'll see competitive archers with weights on the end of big sticks coming out each side of their bow for the same reason.
yeah they do look similar. if you look up like "twisted juniper table" or something where people polish up the wood a little better than i did they look much more alike. junipers are ugly at a sight because of all of that dry, flakey bark on the outside
Very nice. Living in norcal, I know the tree you are using. I have a verity of unusual shaped pieces of wood, found while cutting firewood or using my wood mill, making lumber. I have a verity of skills, from woodworking, carving, leather tooling, etc, but my skills with metals are beyond rusty. No pun intended. I've never have done this type of mold making myself, so I still am not tired of seeing it done. BTW, I have tool envy. 😶
The trees are whacky. There are a few kinda of juniper all over the west/southwest. I dont know anything about woodworking. One thing i originally wanted to do was get a slab with a live edge, take part of the live edge/bark and cast that in bronze, put it back onto the slab then you have basically a bronze edge on the thing but i didn't get to it
great video!! May I ask why there was no air trapped in the lego heads/helmets? This should be massive undercuts impossible to be reached by the bronze, without vent holes? And I doubt you moved the mold (and even if you did, does it really get rid of air in those legos?
The ceramic shell is porous and breathable. The weight of the bronze pushes air out of the side walls as well as back up to the vent/cup. Its not a huge amount but you can rely on it to not have to vent every single little weird area. Also with this much weight of bronze the head pessure is more than enough weight and force to push small amounts of air out of the shell through the walls. It probably wouldn't work with like jewelry size castings (not enough weight), thats why they vacuum cast but the vacuum is still pulling air through the investment
@@joachimkarstens9769 i dont know the exact specs i just know what i can get away with from intuition. Im sure there is real science about it somewhere. Remet is a supplier for shell and they have a lot of info. Youd probably have to look into jewelry stuff for plaster info
i didn't do any coatings or waxes or anything to it. it only really darkens a little bit over time but that happens no matter what you do. first think i do is warm up the bronze piece before i start polishing and this cooks most of the water out of it (bronze, or metal in general will always soak up humidity from the air though) and then do the polishing and as long as you don't touch it with your fingers or get anything on it or use cleaners on it, it won't really change colors besides just getting a little bit darker (which will happen with a clearcoat or something, anyways)
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Beautiful work! A clear, concise explanation of how you achieved such a fantastic result. It was very generous of you to share so much of your process. Thank you.
Thank you
Mate, awesome work… thanks for taking the time to be so concise with how you did this.
Great final result.👍🏼
So glad I found your channel! I appreciate your talent and wicked sense of humor 😅
Thats very cool. Im impressed.
That was awesome, I don’t know how I ended up here but I’m glad I did. Great work mate
lol thanks. glad to know people's youtube spirals send them here sometimes.
This is a really great execution! Love the video, can’t wait to see more.
i'm doing a 350gt Mustang, Revell model car kit, all of the individual pieces cast in bronze and then i'll build it in metal just like how you would a plastic model
Dude this is frigging gorgeous and I must do it for myself.
Good luck. You can do it in anything. The first time i did it was in a granite boulder. Look up "jim hodges boulders" for a much crazier example
Thank you very much for sharing. I dabble with my forge, foundry, lathe and other nice toys, and have often wondered about casting using wood as a contrast. Such a helpful video (and I like the shakey camera, it's organic, real, and shows that it is a guy doing something he enjoys rather than a tedious "Influencer" type - if a video is less about the camera and more about the content, it definitely grabs my interest more). Anyway... I have a few questions but they are all flying around my head in a fuzzy cloud. Once they have condensed into something more concise, I'd love to chat to you about your projects a little more.
no problem. i did an easy version, there are probably way cooler things that you could do whacky inlays on
Very cool concept.
i got a few more left. figured i'd give them away to anyone who stumbles upon them
Love your work
Very interesting process. I turn wood and found this looking for a method of pouring metal onto wood, not have much luck but this would be an alternative. I know the tree, I'm from Portland and have spent some time in Bend and around. I just might make a trip over to find some of that wood.
Theres way cooler and twistier versions of the juniper. I picked an easy one. I dont really know how youd pour metal right into it because of the whole fire thing
Those trees remind me of the snow gum, a tree that grows in the few parts of Australia where it snows. BTW if you want to reduce that camera wobble, get a foot of 1/4-20 threaded rod and cast a big ball of bronze onto one end. Thread it into the tripod mount of your camera and you'll have an inertial stability and vibration damping system. The longer the threaded rod, the higher the mass moment of inertia and the higher the damping of rotations. You'll see competitive archers with weights on the end of big sticks coming out each side of their bow for the same reason.
yeah they do look similar. if you look up like "twisted juniper table" or something where people polish up the wood a little better than i did they look much more alike. junipers are ugly at a sight because of all of that dry, flakey bark on the outside
Very nice. Living in norcal, I know the tree you are using. I have a verity of unusual shaped pieces of wood, found while cutting firewood or using my wood mill, making lumber.
I have a verity of skills, from woodworking, carving, leather tooling, etc, but my skills with metals are beyond rusty. No pun intended. I've never have done this type of mold making myself, so I still am not tired of seeing it done. BTW, I have tool envy. 😶
The trees are whacky. There are a few kinda of juniper all over the west/southwest. I dont know anything about woodworking. One thing i originally wanted to do was get a slab with a live edge, take part of the live edge/bark and cast that in bronze, put it back onto the slab then you have basically a bronze edge on the thing but i didn't get to it
If you wanna see a wacky tree
Salt cedar that stuff looks like something out of dr sues
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great video!! May I ask why there was no air trapped in the lego heads/helmets? This should be massive undercuts impossible to be reached by the bronze, without vent holes? And I doubt you moved the mold (and even if you did, does it really get rid of air in those legos?
The ceramic shell is porous and breathable. The weight of the bronze pushes air out of the side walls as well as back up to the vent/cup. Its not a huge amount but you can rely on it to not have to vent every single little weird area. Also with this much weight of bronze the head pessure is more than enough weight and force to push small amounts of air out of the shell through the walls. It probably wouldn't work with like jewelry size castings (not enough weight), thats why they vacuum cast but the vacuum is still pulling air through the investment
@@skraminc wow, that´s very interesting! Never thought this could be the reason.
So is it more porous as lets say plaster?
@@joachimkarstens9769 i dont know the exact specs i just know what i can get away with from intuition. Im sure there is real science about it somewhere. Remet is a supplier for shell and they have a lot of info. Youd probably have to look into jewelry stuff for plaster info
@@skraminc ah I see! Very interesting. I don´t work with metals, so that was really astonishing :) thank you!
@@joachimkarstens9769 thanks for watching
Really nice job. How do you prevent the brass from discolouring?
i didn't do any coatings or waxes or anything to it. it only really darkens a little bit over time but that happens no matter what you do. first think i do is warm up the bronze piece before i start polishing and this cooks most of the water out of it (bronze, or metal in general will always soak up humidity from the air though) and then do the polishing and as long as you don't touch it with your fingers or get anything on it or use cleaners on it, it won't really change colors besides just getting a little bit darker (which will happen with a clearcoat or something, anyways)
Wdm 352 subs? The video is so well shot and edited.
i know right. i should just talk about politics or gossip to get those subs up. would be a lot easier
@@skraminc hehe, it's better to have a quality than a quantity, in my opinion, anyway, nice work
@@wujciowariatuncio5702 but it would be nice to have more viewers lol. Just editing a video by itself is a ton of work and thats not the hard part
@@skraminc yup, i understand
Haha nerd what's the point of making metal wood
why do anything?