Casting a Bronze Bull Elk - How Bronze Sculptures are Made.
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2022
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This is my most complex but easily my best bronze to date. I'm really happy with how it turned out. Just a few years ago I build my homemade foundry furnace. and started casting ingots. Now I'm making sculptures like this in my garage. I've come a long way.
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PRODUCTS USED:
Tig Welder
AHP Alfa 201X tig welder:
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Investment: Ultra-Vest
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Sprue Wax:
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Casting wax:
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Your videos definitely show us WHY those bronze sculptures are a thousand dollars. Very beautiful! I'm looking forward to more videos!
You’re pretty cute. I have been a sculptor for many years and worked in a studio situated on the upper floor of a foundry where we make all sizes and complexities of bronze statuary and still I find your videos charming.
I do what I can. Still learning.
To fill in bubbles and defect in my wax figure, I use a homemade sticky moldable wax made from combining paraffin wax and "wax ring" wax from a plumbing supply store (very soft and stick wax). Experiment with ratios until you have a consistency that works well for you, but start around 1 to 1, melted together, adding more paraffin to make it harder or ring wax to make it softer and stickier.
Wow! I had no idea how complex your trade was.. So many crafts involved and the details have got to be brutal to obtain.
Thanks man for showing us your beautiful work this is painstaking jewelry work I hope your skills will be better and better every time you do your projects !
brother you gotta put a tag on them antlers before your cut em off.. if the game warden sees you, you're gonna be in big trouble. Fantastic videos, thanks much... better than tv any day.
rinse the wax with isopropyl just before you pour the plaster. It will help prevent bubbles by breaking the surface tension and keeps the bubbles from sticking to the piece. 😉
Thanks for the tip!
I love your work. I have some bronze pieces that my great-great grandfather made in the 1800s that remind me of your fine creations. If the comments allowed attaching files, I would show you. You're adorable too.
Just wow so talented you should be proud
I know that expression at about 6:22 all too well (and not just with my casting).
The final product was certainly worthy of the epic music at the end.
Your videos are great. One thing that might be useful to you; When we were sealing patinated bronzes in the art foundry I used to manage, we just heated the bronze and sealed it with bee's wax. The wax goes into the pores, smells nice, and polishes up lovely. Great work, man.
Your level of patience and attention to detail is well beyond mine! Great work!
Fantastic tutorial. I'm just starting on working with bronze and I want to thank you for teaching me techniques I didn't know. Your art and sculptures are great. They inspire me. Thank you!
He really is a Monarch of the glen now.
fantastic work
That is definitely a beautiful piece, congratulations on your journey! Worth it!
That Elk is SUPERB!
Wow~!!!! It is so an amazing finishing artwork, and your explanation step by step.
Thank you very much.
for thin metal, try using heat sinks. aluminum works great , keeps it from melting away while still welding it. awesome videos. very fun to watch!
Your videos are excellent !
I'm slowly setting up and building furnaces collecting bronze over the years can't wait to start casting and learning
Absolutely stunning work! I can't stop watching your videos, they're excellent!
Amazing work. Good job.
Pls take my advice: mix your plaster with detergent, so the plaster mould will be porous enough to allow any gas to escape while pouring. This way, you will not need the vacuum casting chamber. You may wonder about the bubbles on the wax because of the bubble caused by mixing detergent with plaster and water. However, to eliminate any possible bubble on the wax, you can brush some plaster on your wax model. Brushing the plaster leaves no bubbles behind. A porous mould not only obviates the need for vaccm casting but also dramatically reduces the time needed for wax burn out.
P.S: I have five years of experience in lost wax casting.
interesting ...
so first cover the wax model in a "milk" of plature to avoid the bubles formation , this works , it's verified and then the detergent mixed plasture with the bubles will work absorbing the gases without making bubles on the model , right ?
What kind of detergent? Liquid and mix to add bubbles, dry and allow for some cavities? A little more detail on this technique would be very appreciated!
What's the ratio Detergent/plaster/water? What kind of detergent?
@mircea277 you need to add some detergent powder to create lots of bubbles in the plaster mixture, so you won't need to vacuum the mold when pouring the metal. In fact, these bubbles add enough porosity to your investment slurry to allow gasses escape and prevent misrun. The method used in these ideas is good as long as the sculpture is not big. If big, you cannot take it out of the kiln hot. Neither can you vacuum the plaster mold when you pour the metal. So, use my method. Make your plaster mold porous enough. Then, you won't even have to rush and pour metal into a hot mold
@@stevesquier3167 I answered your question. Just let me know about your results
Well done...Beautiful..
Amazing piece of work. Great job.
This is just so beautiful
I love it!
The entire process is so interesting, the result is beautiful.
Absolutely beautiful work or art.
Very beautiful!
It's so beautiful! It definitely looks like it belongs in a gallery, I love it!
Greetings from Ukraine! Your work is a masterpiece!
Thank you! Good to hear from Ukraine! God be with you! 🇺🇦
AMAZING!!! You are so patient and determined - very nice job! Super proud of you!!! :)
Outstanding
Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing.
beautiful
Priceless. Your body of work will inspire many and at this rate your masterpieces will be legendary.
Love your videos, they are informative and the results are spectacular
Yes indeed very nice
Amazing
I've enjoyed watching two of your videos now. Very interesting and down to earth. As a note of safety, if it hasn't been mentioned anywhere else in the comments, is to wear thin leather gloves and a long-sleeved shirt while tig welding to shield your skin from an instant sunburn, lol. (Coming from many years of welding background, welding is not friendly to the human body).
What a show so beautiful
That was definitely worth the wait, beautiful, I'd be proud as punch to have made something as nice as that, 100% worth more than one you could go and buy.
Dude, that turned out great! Beautiful work, man. You should be proud
Very nice!!
Amazing!
Recently subscribed, and enjoying your videos, as well as gaining info and knowledge about the process as I consider and prepare to do some casting myself.
The Baroque period used a lot of animals that morph into architectural elements. Maybe you could try something like that. I’m getting ready to start a new job at a bronze clock bell foundry. Although my focus will be on sales, I still love learning about the casting process. I hope to also have the opportunity to use my art training and try my hand at some casting too.
So beautiful 😍
Great piece of art mate. I would love to be able to produce somethin like that. Thanks for sharing your journey. ☺
your talent is without bound. bravo my brother bravo
Super nice work
Fenomenal
A staggering amount of work and a very, very fine end result! :-D
Amazing 👍
I'm honestly lost for words at the moment...I'll get back to ya!!! 💚it!!
Way to go with figuring out how to deal with the venting of the antlers!!! 😎
Awesome
Cool! just clean the welds even during welding it can help a lot
I try but it’s honestly easier to just grind it down than dial in the setting.
Amazing work 👍👍👍 cheers
amazing bro
Super
Would love to see you do a big cat. Even if it has to be a North American animal, name a mountain lion
You are living my dream bro
This will be cool
Well impressed how you hid the holes and blended those feet in. Would it be easier to use a piece copper heating pipe, sharp edged, to cut a hole for the investment. Then the plug would be a perfect fit for the repair? You know like a plug cutter …..just wondering. Powerful piece that, I liked the physio details, like that muscle on the back right leg, anatomical detail like that separates the men from the boys imo.
Goste ,bem feito 👏👏👏
Could be proud no friend you should be it came out great.
SO BASICALLY HE'S 3d PRINTING THESE THINGS!
Not even close to correct.
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Great!
I love the process of your skills development!
Could you highlight the investment you have used and curing process?
I use Ultra Vest from Rio Grande Jewelry supply. I let it cure for about 2 hours before I steam out the wax.
Great work! You're improving tons every week dude xD Try make something geeky next?
I love uuu
And I love you random citizen!
Hi there I really like your channel I really like how you make the sculptures of any animals you did in the past videos I was hoping that if you can do a clay dinosaur sculpture a velociraptor The animal itself not the claws like you did before an animal sculpture of a velociraptor out of clay with super Sculpey Second you can do the molds and after that you can do is make it into a bronze hopefully whenever you get the chance to make a velociraptor out of bronze if you can do that you can do it out of any animal turn it to bronze Love your channel by the way
Absolutely fascinating!! I ended up going onto your Etsy site too. If I was interested in one of your bears do you take orders?
I have a bear being prepped right now and it will be on Etsy soon!
Very nice piece brother... I did get a vacuum chamber made and it turned out fairly good. Now I'm making a bigger one 14"x24" stainless tubing! Making some bigger parts using the suspendslurry. Suspendslurry in not normally used with vacuu casting due to having no way to seal the casting. But I think I may have a solution?? We'll have to see...
Yeah I don’t think you could use suspenda slurry. It has to have enough porosity to let air through but not the metal. Suspenda slurry has no porosity so any way the air will flow through the metal will flow through also.
Wow! You did a really nice job on the elk. That was a ton of work. Where do you find the model to use for your castings?
I sculpted it myself.
Hello, what type of putty do you use to cover the figure? because I watch the video and then it melts in the water... could you tell me? Thanks
Hy there , congrats for your work , I'm aspiring to do something like this ... :)
I have a question pls ... why did you made the second hole ? You could fill the inside from the back first and then attach the pouring cone ...
you should make a soldier from the civil war
That would be a good one! It would be tricky to sculpt the uniform. That would be a learning experience.
@@lundgrenbronzestudios yeah but it would look awesome
what was your resource material you used for imformation on how to start casting and molding
Lots of RUclips videos and metal casting forums. I learned through trial and error.
Hi, great work.. What is the wall thickness of the casting?
I try to shoot for between and 1/8” to a 1/4”.
Why didn't you put the plug in the belly instead of the ribcage? Wouldn't that avoid having to chase a more visible feature?
It’s easier to weld and metal chase on the side than fighting to get around the legs on the belly.
@@lundgrenbronzestudiosAh ha. Thanks for that. Always wanted to try my hand at that but time got away from me. Great work by the way.
Hello
Can you please give me some information on how to make the investment
The materials and mixture
I don’t make it. I buy it from Rio Grande jewelry supply. I use Ultravest investment.
Nice horse. What’s that on top of his head? 😬
A saddle.
what kind of filler rod are you using when welding?
I use pro Star silicon bronze filler. The color matches perfectly for the bronze I use. I use everdure silicon bronze.
What mixture of bronze is that? Do you mix your own alloys?
I sometimes make tin bronze or aluminum bronze, I’ve even tried making my own silicon bronze. But for pieces like this I buy it so I know it’s properly made. For this type of casting I always use silicon bronze.
What I don't understand is why you didn't attached the horns to the wax before casting it. I understand that you would have had to add tunnels to let the air escape, but... wouldn't it be easier to clean the tips of the horns rather than having to attach them to the main body (which was a complex task as shown in the video)?
It simply didn’t fit in my flask with the antlers on.
Don't know why you didn't state this in the vidio...... oh wait..... you did.. piss funny comment. Keep up the amazing work mate . Wouldn't matter how you did it some pin head will tell you how to do it better. 😂🤣😎🇦🇺👌
@@rodmills4071 "oh wait, someone missed a detail in the video? I must be corny and diminishing to other people questions?" Nice way of life, mate. I'm sure you never asked something people told you before. Ever. That would make you "a better person", right? What a boring life you have to live to waste your time trying (poorly) to sound sarcastic when in reality you make people pity you...
The hollowness of the parts in this concept, with the subsequent need for welding, is a nightmare... You really need some 3d-adjustable steel clamps, for retaining the perfect relation of pieces to each other, that are about to get welded together !!! I don´t even understand the importance of those models being hollow... Is it because of the high bronze-price, and total.cost???
I wish you´d tune in the process for technical parts (aluminium), so that the least possible milling, lathe-ing and CNCing is needed in the afterprocess. What about gears, or 2stroke-cylinders? (Patrick Bächler´s channel has some intricate 49cc-cylinder-designs, with up to 9 channels inside the cylinder-walls, and up to 400hp/lt, but he grinds those channels out of already existing cylinders, with all the subsequent compromises, while casting them from zero would have been wiser).
Nearly every bronze sculpture you see will be cast hollow. Mainly due to metal shrinkage. Hollow casting prevents many issues that are encountered with irregular shaped sculptures.
@@lundgrenbronzestudios Yeah, have just watched another video of yours, and there, you explain it too...
I wonder what it will look like... 😉
Maybe I should have made a more cryptic reveal?
@@lundgrenbronzestudios cant do that to us the cats out the bag now lol
@@lundgrenbronzestudios Your clay sculpture of this elk is why I started watching the channel. It is a really natural looking elk, I'm excited to see how it turns out.
Nice piece. Dude, that dremel and filing dust has got to be destroying your camera, with it so close. peace
Yeah. I sometimes wrap it in saran wrap to try and protect it.
Where i come from, thats 2500$
Where do you come from?
Africa
Look who's movin to Africa..🤣😂😎🇦🇺👌
@@rodmills4071 i will link them with someone 😂
Sorry but i think you're not doing it the right way have you tried using a vacuum investment machine and solid wax molding
Amazing
That is AWESOME!!