@@draconic5129 well, those ones didn't look to bad, there are way worse. If you got a good vendor, you get excellent mushrooms. Back in the restaurant i worked in, we had some self grown and always excelent ones from a good vendor.
@@meloney true they don't look too bad, but they're probably not as good as the ones you can grow on your own. At the very least the ones that you grow yourself will be much fresher than the ones at the store.
Ancient alchemists: by practicing my art for decades, I may be finally able to transmute living material to metal Cody: oh you mean like my latest weekend project
@@duncanludlow7768 Ok. I was just mentioning that he said it had gotten a "little" bit hotter, while it had gone from almost not glowing at all to glowing a lot.
That second pour made the stem look like it had a characteristic mushroom ring around it. If I didn't know better, I would've thought you'd done that on purpose! Great job, I love this video! I reeaally wanna try this now
Just to trigger people start calling ice solidified dihydrogen monoxide i sware if people know what you are saying and arent trigger something is wrong with them
My father has gotten into doing mushroom casting so I've learned a bit about the process. My guess would be a combination of the mold not being hot enough and not enough back pressure. To force voids out the metal need to continue to be liquid and there needs to be a lot of pressure . My father tends to preheat the plaster molds in the oven while melting the metal and uses around 2x the metal needed to fill the void, with large sprue/funnel along with all the vents to help force out air bubbles
@@tylervue306 eh, kind of my dad got started when he saw anthill art RUclips channel take a break from casting ant hills to doing mushrooms. I am told by my father but there is this whole mushrooming community and there is a small subset of them that also cast them. My dad sells them on Etsy
As a former Jeweler, I can't like enough the suggestion of keeping the mold hot. We often chose 30 to 40 percent of the casting metal's fluid temperature.
I could see a whole line of door knobs / handles and drawer pulls like these. Maybe Cody could cast using metal he recycled from computer waste next time. Great vid and awesome metal art. Thank you for the vid Cody
When I did bronze casting at school, we used plaster of Paris in a thin coat for the detail, flicked on with a brush or fingers, then the investment plaster or grog to build up a robust mold. The whole mold went in the oven or furnace for several hours to get it done dry before pouring. But your results looked great, proper Sculpture :)
I have seen footage of a volcanologist collecting lava samples with a spoon(the volcano had some of the least hot lava in the world and it wasn't even obviously incandescing in the video.
should fill the holes on top with something of a different color so it looks like the mushrooms with red spots or something. That would be cool. maybe fill it with aluminum brazing rod since it has a low melting point you could just heat it with a torch and drip it in.
*More than you want to know: Maybe pre-heat your mushroom in an autoclave/oven to allow penetration. Your artwork is now a giant heat sink. Also immerse it in sand as it cools to slow the process as diff metals cool at different rates and you don't want something contracting fast outside something contracting slowly as it cracks it in half.*
The cavities are actually very accurate, I've found a large mushroom in my yard as a kid and insects had dug cavities on the sides and top of it, they had tunnel systems within the giant mushroom. I still have old photos of it.
the bronze mushrooms are clearly natural formations. it is currently believed that they are but the discarded armor of large, living mammals. the "dinosaur", as it has been named, molts its husks as it grows, and they surely did not have feathers.
Cool project Cody. It's hard to get perfect detail with investment plaster. I've done many videos recently of trying to perfect the process. Turned out ceramic shell casting gave me my most reliable results. I'd link the vid, but then this will end up in your spam folder. Check my vids over the last few months if you want to see.
If you mount one of these on a piece of granite or something, it's instant high-end home decor. It's already art and I love it as it is but it would be a cool idea!
@@electronicsNmore yeah always some sprues and vents...but other than that if you do it properly the rest of the piece should need very very little work
@@imdrunken I've cast a bunch of items over the years, but only show one on my channel, a brass turtle. It came out excellent, but a lot of finishing work. The majority of items for decorative purposes will require a lot of finishing work.
So good to see you and this channel doing great, 2 years ago you posted that video in wich you looked really sad and the channel was not going that well, at the time i thought it was going to end, but here you are bringing entertainment and education for a lot of people.
I feel like in a fantasy land, these things would give a few extra hearts/health. Also, Cody should try this with oyster and wood mushrooms, and maybe make a metal log to put them on.
he could recast those mushrooms that he made out of bronze and copper, and sell them as lawn art with the rocks attached for $50 - $100 per mushroom lol allot of people would go for that. it reminds me of fairy houses out of cottonwood bark.
As many hours and as much specialized tooling went into this, 100 bucks is way too cheap. For all the aspiring artists out there, don't sell yourself short. Your time is valuable- make sure you're charging for it!
*More than you want to know: Archaeologists could tell it was post Jul 16 1945/first nuclear detonation because this lost wax/plaster casting involves blowing atmospheric air at molten copper/bronze/silver(pipe solder?), radioactive isotopes that never existed before Trinity Project (Jul 16 1945 Alamogordo New Mexico) inclPlutonium 239, Strontium-90, Caesium-137, and Technetium-99also found their way into nearly every piece of copper/bronze/silver produced. Could you do it in an Argon gas environment and fool them? Probably for that test alone but there might be something in welding argon that tips them off IF they ever tested for it. My guess is that no one tests for it, but control your temperature because with current methods you may be getting material hotter than ancient methods and burning out impurities that exist in ancient methods and are visibly identifiable.*
Every once and a while, cody makes a video which feels like a fever-dream. this is one of those. I love this sort of stream-of-consciousness project, and I think Cody is a master of recording it.
@@samuelmuldoon4839 It's basically RUclips for high schoolers and people with no attention span, because the videos are all required to be like < 3 minutes. Most are ~1 minute. There are some videos with interesting content, but the vast majority of it is cringy fake pranks and mental/self help "experts" who don't have any qualifications. Not worth sifting through the trash to find the rare uneaten sandwich.
filming molten bronze in sunlight is a trip (when you stir it). It looks so different, and literally looks like water vs how it glows in the shade and looks heavy and goopy.
Hey Cody, I work in a professional foundry and what those holes you have are is known as shrink. Basically because there was more heat and insulation at the bottom of the mold the cap of the mushroom was the last part to solidify, as the rest of the material was solidifying it was shrinking, to fill in that space it sucks liquid metal in to backfill. If you get and pockets where there isn’t any liquid metal left you end up with a void. In industry we “gate” our patterns, which is adding pieces designed to be cut off that only exist to provide liquid metal to the part we care about. In this use case you probably could have hit the stem with a torch as the piece was cooling and it would have helped a lot.
I kind of like the holes in the cap. It makes it look like it's standing in nature, where the bugs ate their way into it and the rain played its part at weathering the mushroom.
I want to see the confused archeologists in a few millennia. "How did all of these mushrooms grow right next to each other, and how the heck did they turn bronze?".
It is that down-to-earth lack of pretension about Cody that I love. You could by a $4000 tungsten core spoon with graphite coating... or "just use a kitchen spoon" which does the job just fine.
That reminded me that my cousin worked as a dental prosthetic technician at a lab and he had a cool collection of bugs in stainless steel made with investment casting. They had an astounding level of detail.
At 9:55 there is a steel kitchen pot which gets filled with sand. My father used to have a steel pot just like that. The pot was one of my favorites because the lid it came with was very flat. My father's drawer of pot and pan lids was always too full. I was tempted to make lids for every pot in the kitchen the same shape/size. Most lids aren't quite that thin/flat and the pot and pan lids can take up too much space in the kitchen.
A classic codyslab video i have fallen out of regularly watching your videos for the past few months for no reason in particular, untill i just kinda stumbled upon this one. a random project which i would definitely not do in my home but which you seem to take rather leisurely. this video just made me happy. there is going to be an intervention about that "tiktok" you mentioned at the end...
Love the video! Two things that could dramatically improve your results. 1 Buy new metal made for casting, weird things can happen when you are casting with mixed metals, we have seen this with trying to recycle gold. 2 make a silicone mold of the mushroom and make a wax version to cast, that way you can invest the wax and get a clean burnout with no need for a two piece mold.
I have missed “hello everybody welcome back to Cody’s lab” I found this channel years ago when you made black power out of pee and I have not watched since the solar eclipse but it’s good to be back 👍🏼
Cody: I'm making a bronze mushroom. Everyone: Okay, why? Cody: ...I don't understand the question. This is genius-level nonsense, and I am 10,000% on board.
I suspect the heat would damage the cast even more, and eventually you'll have a fragile thing that turns into a pile of dust when you try to handle it, instead of a paster mold. Though maybe a lower, slower evaporation run would work?
Three tips on how to improve the casting: Air channels that allow the air to make room when the metal comes in. Pre-heating the mold so that the hot metal does not cool as quick and maintains viscosity longer to get into the far ends. A taller cone of additional metal where you pour in to have more weight on the cast metal, pushing it deeper into the mold. Good luck with casting, it's always a bit of a gamble, even when everything is done right.
Before someone tries to tell me how stupid I am yes I am aware that's not soup, I was making a joke. You might not find it funny, my job is not to humor you but my wife laughed and that's good enough
@@raffaeledivora9517 I see what you're saying but kicking mushrooms really isn't that big of a deal. If anything I guess you're helping it spread its spores around with that kick lolol.
Hey Cody! What would happen if you filled the void in the mushroom with that mercury-copper amalgam that you made in a previous video? Would it also be possible to make a bronze amalgam? Like a mercury/copper/tin amalgam? Or a mercury/copper/zinc amalgam? What would their properties be? Btw, that shaggy mane mushroom looks sexy af, and _love_ the clinky noise they make.
the level of detail in the gills that came through in the casting is incredible
"I thought this was cool"
You thought correctly, Cody
I like how the guy with his own personal mushroom farm decided to go buy mushrooms.
Why waste good mushrooms on casting, just buy the terrible ones from the store to use for casting.
@@draconic5129 yes
@@draconic5129 well, those ones didn't look to bad, there are way worse. If you got a good vendor, you get excellent mushrooms. Back in the restaurant i worked in, we had some self grown and always excelent ones from a good vendor.
@@meloney true they don't look too bad, but they're probably not as good as the ones you can grow on your own. At the very least the ones that you grow yourself will be much fresher than the ones at the store.
@@draconic5129 Not necesserly, those we bought at the vendor were cut the same morning.
Ancient alchemists: by practicing my art for decades, I may be finally able to transmute living material to metal
Cody: oh you mean like my latest weekend project
Cody: "Now it's a little bit hotter."
Meanwhile, the furnace is glowing red.
only need 650-700F for copper to glow while copper casting is closer to 2000F
@@duncanludlow7768 Ok. I was just mentioning that he said it had gotten a "little" bit hotter, while it had gone from almost not glowing at all to glowing a lot.
Its all relitive
@@SuperAronGamerMNO ⁶]y]]
Cody cheekily ending as always with "hope you enjoyed" knowing full well we all enjoyed very much
Man that is a super cool idea. I want to cast some mushrooms now
You know what shia labeouf would say, don't you?
I eat em
Right? Good seeing you here man
@@cromeaxe Cast them out of chocolate instead?
@@Rebar77_real that will be super good 😋
"Let's see how it goes"
"I hope it works out"
"Oh well"
Ahh classic Cody
Indeed
That second pour made the stem look like it had a characteristic mushroom ring around it. If I didn't know better, I would've thought you'd done that on purpose! Great job, I love this video! I reeaally wanna try this now
I love those castings, they turned out beautifully.
The Coprinus family has one of my favorite mushrooms, its awesome to see it cast in metal.
I love how Cody is just mixing orange hot liquid bronze like it’s soup and with a dinner spoon no less.
i wondered: why does the spoon not melt!?
@@BrokenGrandma Steel has a much higher melting temperature than bronze. It's basically the same as sticking a spoon in melted ice
@@Mikemk_ melted ice? like water?
@@TheSwiftTiger yes, melted ice is water
Just to trigger people start calling ice solidified dihydrogen monoxide i sware if people know what you are saying and arent trigger something is wrong with them
My father has gotten into doing mushroom casting so I've learned a bit about the process. My guess would be a combination of the mold not being hot enough and not enough back pressure.
To force voids out the metal need to continue to be liquid and there needs to be a lot of pressure . My father tends to preheat the plaster molds in the oven while melting the metal and uses around 2x the metal needed to fill the void, with large sprue/funnel along with all the vents to help force out air bubbles
Wait, so is mushroom casting just like a thing that people do? It’s pretty interesting but I’ve never seen it prior to this video.
Dude i wanna buy a mushroom casting from your dad. How much?
@@tylervue306 eh, kind of my dad got started when he saw anthill art RUclips channel take a break from casting ant hills to doing mushrooms. I am told by my father but there is this whole mushrooming community and there is a small subset of them that also cast them. My dad sells them on Etsy
As a former Jeweler, I can't like enough the suggestion of keeping the mold hot. We often chose 30 to 40 percent of the casting metal's fluid temperature.
@@45nickname I can't order from etsy, I live in australia :(
I could see a whole line of door knobs / handles and drawer pulls like these. Maybe Cody could cast using metal he recycled from computer waste next time. Great vid and awesome metal art. Thank you for the vid Cody
Oooh, a bunch of unique mushroom cast doorhandles, thats a great idea!
@@yotyytoy9294 yeah, especially if your going for the elf or hobbit home motif. Nature theme in any home makes it more cozy
that is an excellent idea
Why metal from computer parts? probably a lot of lead.
"Im going to cast a Portobello mushroom bronze, because I think that'd be pretty neat." This is why we love you Cody!
When I did bronze casting at school, we used plaster of Paris in a thin coat for the detail, flicked on with a brush or fingers, then the investment plaster or grog to build up a robust mold. The whole mold went in the oven or furnace for several hours to get it done dry before pouring. But your results looked great, proper Sculpture :)
Im super impressed with how well the gills came out. Didn't expect that.
The Shaggy Mane blew me away. That level of detail and at this stage where its just about to turn to goo.
"Hopefully no explosions" a classic Cody line.
I find it hilarious that he is stirring MOLTEN METAL with just like, a normal spoon.
I have seen footage of a volcanologist collecting lava samples with a spoon(the volcano had some of the least hot lava in the world and it wasn't even obviously incandescing in the video.
breakfast
@@garethbaus5471 It was. You can see in the shadow of his hand at some point
@@Rig0r_M0rtis I was talking about a different video.
Like a very hot tea!
should fill the holes on top with something of a different color so it looks like the mushrooms with red spots or something. That would be cool. maybe fill it with aluminum brazing rod since it has a low melting point you could just heat it with a torch and drip it in.
Or a tin alloy like britannia.
BONDO! Lol
*More than you want to know: Maybe pre-heat your mushroom in an autoclave/oven to allow penetration. Your artwork is now a giant heat sink. Also immerse it in sand as it cools to slow the process as diff metals cool at different rates and you don't want something contracting fast outside something contracting slowly as it cracks it in half.*
The cavities are actually very accurate, I've found a large mushroom in my yard as a kid and insects had dug cavities on the sides and top of it, they had tunnel systems within the giant mushroom. I still have old photos of it.
You have just triggered all of my phobias at once.
I would love to see it
Woah
@@Crow.Author photos, mushrooms and tunneling systems within living organisms?
Send mushroom pics
I used to watch your videos all the time when I was younger and now I am a mycologist. This is like the coolest thing I've ever seen
What is a mycologist
@@nasdfghidgf8081 fungus biologist
@@aroenweind7244 thank you
Oh dang that’s cool
Finally a Cody's lab video!
I've found his recent beekeeping videos on his second channel good if you havent seen those yet!
We found the fun guy
He had surgery for a hernia, his grandmother passed, and Buddy is MIA. Its understandable.
@@gabesnooks3549 oh no :( I hope Cody is okay.
@@gabesnooks3549 -- Ouch! Dang.
There is old chinese saying "he who has whole garden full of bronze mushrooms will never walk bare foot again"
Ok so im almost 100% sure your joking but i can totally see that being a saying in the modern age just because people are weird
im only joking if you can prove there hasnt been a chinese lord without garden full of bronze muchrooms few thousands years ago ;)
@@ARM0RP0WER "people are weird" - says a man that choose to be using a rainbow colored pony with tail as his avatar picture.
@@Hello-qq2to i am a person so its still true
The hole is just where the blacksmith fairy lives.
Lol
*Redsmith
It's so refreshing to be a part of Cody's community. Not toxic and just normal, supportive nerds like myself.
"Going to cook another mold." Sorry that's a fungus.
I'd say slap yourself but honestly I wish I'd thought of it first.
I want to know the average IQ of the comment section on various RUclips channels. I think Cody's channel might just have the highest.
Mold is fungus
@@graham1158 Correct.
@@The2x4 yeah, I just raised the average IQ of this comment section by 20 points by being here. It does now for sure
future alien archeologist after humanity extinction : "wtf was living there"
the bronze mushrooms are clearly natural formations. it is currently believed that they are but the discarded armor of large, living mammals. the "dinosaur", as it has been named, molts its husks as it grows, and they surely did not have feathers.
@@boldCactuslad Nah, they'll make it into a conspiracy.
*The alien 911 was an alien inside job made by alien communists.*
fossils are just the stone casts of Bones and we don't assume that animals were made of stone, on the other hand we also aren't aliens.
Cool project Cody. It's hard to get perfect detail with investment plaster. I've done many videos recently of trying to perfect the process. Turned out ceramic shell casting gave me my most reliable results. I'd link the vid, but then this will end up in your spam folder. Check my vids over the last few months if you want to see.
Can also change with the type of sand also.
replying to feed the algorithm. Great video on ceramic shell casting by FarmCraft101
This sounds cool, I think this is a hard skill to master, but so rewarding
I was going to mention your videos on casting , You beat me to it.
Check out farmcrafts video. Does a great job @algorithm
6:24 hitting the grill sounded like dramatic music!
This by far the coolest metal cast I've ever seen done. Great job Cody!
If you mount one of these on a piece of granite or something, it's instant high-end home decor. It's already art and I love it as it is but it would be a cool idea!
can slap a good price tag on it just because of that.
@@Fuzzycat16 I would pay big monies for something like that especially considering the artist is Cody himself
Metal casting is fun, but usually there's a good amount of work after the pour to get the object looking really good.
Not if you plan accordingly and use proper materials
@@imdrunken Always finish work to be done, very rarely comes out perfect.
@@electronicsNmore yeah always some sprues and vents...but other than that if you do it properly the rest of the piece should need very very little work
@@electronicsNmore we have a foundry at the school I work at and I am the technician in the glass shop. My specialty is moulds....
@@imdrunken I've cast a bunch of items over the years, but only show one on my channel, a brass turtle. It came out excellent, but a lot of finishing work. The majority of items for decorative purposes will require a lot of finishing work.
The merging of 2 of Cody's most loved things: wax and mushrooms
And molten metal.
Lol I'm kinda giggling at this because it can be interpreted in more than one way 😂
@@raffikkiz 😏
@@raffikkiz I mean it was 7/10 yesterday haha
So good to see you and this channel doing great, 2 years ago you posted that video in wich you looked really sad and the channel was not going that well, at the time i thought it was going to end, but here you are bringing entertainment and education for a lot of people.
"Get melty" is an amazing phrase that I'm going to start using now.
Hence proved:
"Cody like mushroom more than chemicals"
No no , he just really obviously likes mushroom chemicals.
dont check my watch history
@@nazmussaquib4686U SMART KID U ALREADY DELETED IT
Mushrooms are alien's spying gadgets.
Username checks out.
This man just drilled and tapped a mushroom, what a world
I was gunna write a long message about how cool this is, but there wasn't mushroom.
Shrigma male comment
Geez you're a Fungi
Good one
Lol
god damn you >:(
Just take my fucking like
I feel like in a fantasy land, these things would give a few extra hearts/health. Also, Cody should try this with oyster and wood mushrooms, and maybe make a metal log to put them on.
and the mercury swamp
Be great for gaming. Do it in lead or tin pewter, and paint!
Play let it die, it's all weird shroomage doing all kinds of weird but mostly helpful stuff lol also it's fun
I mean in zelda theres ironshrooms which buff your defense
@@tysanbyrd7532 Is that the online F2P/P2W Dark Soul's inspired game with the skateboarding grim reaper?
he could recast those mushrooms that he made out of bronze and copper, and sell them as lawn art with the rocks attached for $50 - $100 per mushroom lol allot of people would go for that. it reminds me of fairy houses out of cottonwood bark.
As many hours and as much specialized tooling went into this, 100 bucks is way too cheap.
For all the aspiring artists out there, don't sell yourself short. Your time is valuable- make sure you're charging for it!
I doubt it as they are indistinguishable from painted plastic. I already saw such faux-bronze statues.
He probably has 50-100$ in materials alone. Would be better off electroplating imho.
Plastic ones probably already exist for a few dollars.
@@donbrewer6865 never tried to sell his artwork.
Jk man. I'm just saying, it's not the easiest thing to do.
“It’ll add character a guess” that’s the mindset
Wabi-sabi makes the world beautiful.
Awesome castings, brother!
13:10 hmmm... that soup seems real hot. Do tomatoes make it so red, or did you use paprika?
It’s the heat. 😉
this begs for... dum dum duuuuuum, hot soup challenge
@@theCodyReeder Ah, chili peppers.
I see.
13:01 Cody's stirring that bronze like I stir my cereal in the morning.
What if you were to toss the finished mushroom into an archaeological excavation site?
*More than you want to know: Archaeologists could tell it was post Jul 16 1945/first nuclear detonation because this lost wax/plaster casting involves blowing atmospheric air at molten copper/bronze/silver(pipe solder?), radioactive isotopes that never existed before Trinity Project (Jul 16 1945 Alamogordo New Mexico) inclPlutonium 239, Strontium-90, Caesium-137, and Technetium-99also found their way into nearly every piece of copper/bronze/silver produced. Could you do it in an Argon gas environment and fool them? Probably for that test alone but there might be something in welding argon that tips them off IF they ever tested for it. My guess is that no one tests for it, but control your temperature because with current methods you may be getting material hotter than ancient methods and burning out impurities that exist in ancient methods and are visibly identifiable.*
Actually I bet people have done that before with other things.
when you poured the metal into the investment was the mold heated or at ambient temperature?
if it was too cold these hollow spaces can happen
The edge of the mushroom was higher than the rest of the body, too. a riser or two would have helped the gas escape instead of getting trapped there
Man that looks so good!
I think the holes give it more character
its just worms
I want to see some Morel mushrooms cast out of bronze, they would look really cool after a polish.
Morels are hollow. They would be hard to cast in plaster. Maybe 3d print one.
@@pimpnick4920 good point, you need to fill the morel with something first or it will implode. Maybe more plaster?
Cody is Shaggy + Velma.
*Mindblown*
Every once and a while, cody makes a video which feels like a fever-dream. this is one of those. I love this sort of stream-of-consciousness project, and I think Cody is a master of recording it.
I can say I saw the beginning of Cody's metal mushroom empire.
Yeah and if the metal scrappers get wind of his address you might see the end of his metal mushroom empire as well.
I love the link that says "for those who hate or can't use TikTok" it's funny to me because I do hate TikTok.
Virgin other youtubers
Chad Cody:
It’s aids
What is TikTok? I'm being completely serious.... not sarcastic.
@@samuelmuldoon4839 did you ever use vine or do you currently use any social media
@@samuelmuldoon4839 It's basically RUclips for high schoolers and people with no attention span, because the videos are all required to be like < 3 minutes. Most are ~1 minute.
There are some videos with interesting content, but the vast majority of it is cringy fake pranks and mental/self help "experts" who don't have any qualifications. Not worth sifting through the trash to find the rare uneaten sandwich.
filming molten bronze in sunlight is a trip (when you stir it). It looks so different, and literally looks like water vs how it glows in the shade and looks heavy and goopy.
13:00 forbidden tomato soup
Hey Cody, I work in a professional foundry and what those holes you have are is known as shrink. Basically because there was more heat and insulation at the bottom of the mold the cap of the mushroom was the last part to solidify, as the rest of the material was solidifying it was shrinking, to fill in that space it sucks liquid metal in to backfill. If you get and pockets where there isn’t any liquid metal left you end up with a void.
In industry we “gate” our patterns, which is adding pieces designed to be cut off that only exist to provide liquid metal to the part we care about. In this use case you probably could have hit the stem with a torch as the piece was cooling and it would have helped a lot.
Ah, yes, the classic lost fungus casting method.
Me: What's Cody up to this weekend?
Cody: Making metal mushrooms.
Me: Of course.
All is right in the world for now.
I have a hard time believing you Florida man. The only thing right with the world is Cody making metal mushrooms.
@@hawnshill7441
Please let's just believe the lie together for a moment. Please.
I love how "real" you are in comparison with other youtubers
I kind of like the holes in the cap. It makes it look like it's standing in nature, where the bugs ate their way into it and the rain played its part at weathering the mushroom.
Cody you the man I've been watching your videos since a kid man I really enjoy your content
I never thought I would see someone screwing a metal mushroom into a rock 😂
I want to see the confused archeologists in a few millennia. "How did all of these mushrooms grow right next to each other, and how the heck did they turn bronze?".
@@OrigamiMarie if they're smart enough then this would just be classified as "Cody"
@@XVIIstarPt_ oh yeah, I suppose they would quickly figure out that certain areas just have a lot of interesting objects made by people.
just casually stirring molten metal with a kitchen spoon ....
I mean, it *is* stainless steel. It makes a good dross skimmer because its thermal conductivity is so low.
@@tissuepaper9962 yeah, it makes sense, but it _feels_ weird :D
It is that down-to-earth lack of pretension about Cody that I love. You could by a $4000 tungsten core spoon with graphite coating... or "just use a kitchen spoon" which does the job just fine.
😂
That reminded me that my cousin worked as a dental prosthetic technician at a lab and he had a cool collection of bugs in stainless steel made with investment casting. They had an astounding level of detail.
I honestly really like how the bubbles look! They add a nice texture
At 9:55 there is a steel kitchen pot which gets filled with sand. My father used to have a steel pot just like that. The pot was one of my favorites because the lid it came with was very flat. My father's drawer of pot and pan lids was always too full. I was tempted to make lids for every pot in the kitchen the same shape/size. Most lids aren't quite that thin/flat and the pot and pan lids can take up too much space in the kitchen.
Cody, you are- without a doubt- a badass.
This is the best channel
I can tell you from experience that you vented the casting improperly still always interesting to see chicken hole base commander at it!✌😎🏴☠️
Hands down one of the coolest things you've ever made! I love it
A classic codyslab video
i have fallen out of regularly watching your videos for the past few months for no reason in particular, untill i just kinda stumbled upon this one. a random project which i would definitely not do in my home but which you seem to take rather leisurely. this video just made me happy.
there is going to be an intervention about that "tiktok" you mentioned at the end...
3D scan a mushroom, 3D print it, then make a mold out of the 3D printed shroom.
Man, I wish had all those tools.
12:30 the forbidden soup
Fun fact, the mushroom is only used to send spores for the mycelium. Its a reproductive organ.
Yeah, sorta like a pinecone or flower, but tastier.
"Fruiting body" I believe is the correct term. ;)
Love the video! Two things that could dramatically improve your results. 1 Buy new metal made for casting, weird things can happen when you are casting with mixed metals, we have seen this with trying to recycle gold. 2 make a silicone mold of the mushroom and make a wax version to cast, that way you can invest the wax and get a clean burnout with no need for a two piece mold.
Cody I've been watching your stuff forever. Always get excited when I see you post. Loved this one, do more organic material casting!
How many mushrooms would it take to cast a mushroom out of metal extracted from mushrooms?
It varies greatly depending on the mushroom's habitat and/or proximity to roads and sources of heavy metals
I have missed “hello everybody welcome back to Cody’s lab” I found this channel years ago when you made black power out of pee and I have not watched since the solar eclipse but it’s good to be back 👍🏼
the molten metal in bright daylight makes it show up really well on camera
So close to 2M! Congratulations and thanks for the years of great content. Cheers!
The cast looks vert aesthetically pleasing. This is a cool project, Cody
I was like 'mental mushrooms'? Is he.. growing psychedelics?! Oh naaa, of course i misread this 😅
I wish he did, would make for an interesting vid
@@mouwersor definitely. But RUclips would strike him within seconds :/
@@MichiGombocz then he would upload it to bitchute
@@bitterlemonboy but he does not have a channel there, or does he?
That's NileRed's next project.
Cody: I'm making a bronze mushroom.
Everyone: Okay, why?
Cody: ...I don't understand the question.
This is genius-level nonsense, and I am 10,000% on board.
Mushrooms are cool man! Bronze sculptures are also cool man! Bronze sculptures of mushrooms are doubly cool!
@@cr4zyj4ck Hell yeah, man!
cody IS the bronze shroom
Nice one - as others said preheated mold would probably help.
"I'm gonna clean the mould (mold) up a bit" No pun intended? Hah!
Man you are one of the best RUclipsrs!! I love watching your videos!
Cody: 15:30 put the mold in the water*
Subtitle: [Applause]
The subtitle just assumed what the viewers were doing - (it was correct)
Why is longer baking not a option to get rid of the left over moisture for the big casts? However it would be nice to see a other form of casting.
It is an option, just not a very good one. you'd need to bake at very high temperatures for days. Use a lot of energy.
I suspect the heat would damage the cast even more, and eventually you'll have a fragile thing that turns into a pile of dust when you try to handle it, instead of a paster mold. Though maybe a lower, slower evaporation run would work?
I love how "random" your content sometimes is
Your content is always extremely educational and fantastic, thanks for everything!
Three tips on how to improve the casting: Air channels that allow the air to make room when the metal comes in. Pre-heating the mold so that the hot metal does not cool as quick and maintains viscosity longer to get into the far ends. A taller cone of additional metal where you pour in to have more weight on the cast metal, pushing it deeper into the mold.
Good luck with casting, it's always a bit of a gamble, even when everything is done right.
The seam almost resembles a broken veil on other myco species
One doesn’t experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates 🍄
Different mushroom ;)
I want try some of this tomato soup he was cooking
Before someone tries to tell me how stupid I am yes I am aware that's not soup, I was making a joke. You might not find it funny, my job is not to humor you but my wife laughed and that's good enough
Cody your videos always make me smile. Thanks for sharing these cool ideas!
That might be the most satisfying reveal I've seen in a while. Pop that cast open, check out the gills of the mushroom... and it's just BEAUTIFUL!
Imagine someone tries to kick the mushroom to destroy it and they don't realize it's metal until they break their toe
Exactly what I was thinking
tripped over by a mushroom
Tripping hard on mushrooms
Well, they deserve it for wanting to destroy living things for their sole amusement
@@raffaeledivora9517 I see what you're saying but kicking mushrooms really isn't that big of a deal. If anything I guess you're helping it spread its spores around with that kick lolol.
Molten bronze: The forbidden tomato soup.
HOI!
@@sinfulldreamer Hoi. Wan tem flake? I has many.
Hey Cody! What would happen if you filled the void in the mushroom with that mercury-copper amalgam that you made in a previous video?
Would it also be possible to make a bronze amalgam? Like a mercury/copper/tin amalgam? Or a mercury/copper/zinc amalgam?
What would their properties be?
Btw, that shaggy mane mushroom looks sexy af, and _love_ the clinky noise they make.
Those mushrooms look like a 100gecs song
22:42 Yup, very cool. You could sell those! Would look great in the garden.