I am a sculptor, mold maker and bronze smith. I am self taught but I learn more with each project. I show the whole process in my videos including the highs and lows. the success and the failure. Mastery is my goal. Join me in watching me make new things each week as I struggle and learn until I make something amazing. I am creating this channel to record the journey. I will also add some of the side projects I like to do from time to time, and just have fun with being creative.
Great video thanks! The filtering is a great addition and I’ll use that in my process. Couple thoughts, since you mentioned it at the end of your video. My understanding is that vaporized microcrystalline wax is really bad to breath, mad hatter type brain damage. Consider using a wall paper steamer to stream out most of the wax onto a catch pan, that way the wax doesn’t vaporize out of the boiling water during the steaming process. To remelt, I like using a simple electric deep fryer, the wax can’t drip on the elements and the temperature can be controlled under the boiling point. In fact, I often add several cups of water to the pot before remelting the wax, if the water doesn’t boil during the remelt, then the puck of wax has minimal water/wax foam. Downside, if I want to incorporate the filtering process, the wax will need to remelted a second time sans water. Thanks again for the video!
Blacksmith here with knowledge about swords and knifes. The hilt (The whole contraption for your hand) should be atleast half the thickness you made. The handle should be oval. because if it's round it will spin in your hand when you hit somthing, if it's oval, it are mutch less likely to do so. + it will feel a lot better in your hand. The balancing point for the entire sword should be right in front of your tumb and index finger when holding the blade. The idea is that the blade should be an extension of your arm. The only thick thing on the blade should be the pommel, any need to add weight to balance the blade should be added ONLY there. A cupple tips for filing. Always lift the file on the draw back. Otherwise you will weare out the file faster. Also when working with soft metals like bronz, get some chalk and rubb it in to the file every few strokes. The chalk will fill the groves in the file, so they wont get clogg up, with bronze. LAstly. Be really carefull when using powertools like grinders and belt sanders. Allways use a facemask as the resins and the dust is really bad for you. also it's extremely easy when power sanding/grinding to overheat the metal, and lose any hardening you already done. So any sutch thing should be done BEFORE hardening a soft metal like bronze. Atleast that's my experiense from bronze casting.
I don't know much about metalworking but i think ive watched enough to gain some level of smithing-sense. When u showed the holes in the cast i immediately thought "just weld melt more to fill it in" 😅
Hey, thanks for this video. honestly one of the most informative on the subject that I've seen. Made me rethink my whole approach to entering the hobby (in a good way)
Guessing that carving these in wax meant they were made of 12 flat pentagons with holes of different sizes cut out using a template and then the pieces put together with more wax? Yours turned out beautifully.
Fell in love with the process!! Great work and video. I appreciate that you also showed the failures and how you fixed them. I'm a hobbyist 3D printer and I didn't know that you could mix 3d printing with metal casting. Really, an inspiring video, I'll check the rest of your channel :)
Siraya cast resin is made specifically for lost wax casting. Blue is harder to work with than purple(much more brittle), but claims to burn out cleaner.
Those turned out great and big flask are stupid expensive so you could certainly sell those but nice job. Seen people use old brake rotors as a pouring guide to serve as both a protective cover and funnel.
Lucas, I just love everything you make. You have a casual, informative style and a good sense of humor, and are both extremely creative and refreshingly honest. I wish all the channels I watched had such high standards. Please keep doing what you're doing, and I'll continue mentioning you to everyone I know.
I also made a homemade vacuum chamber. I cannot Weld metal like you do so I used a vacuum chamber with it's thick plastic lid and vacuum pump that I bought from Vivohome on Amazon. I will put info for these items below. I used Dremel drill bit and a Dremel router to cut into the plastic to make a hole for a three inch diameter perforated casting flask. It is about 7 inches tall. I use a silicone rubber pad to act like a gasket forming a vacuum seal. I also used vacuum grease which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. Many times, I had a difficult time getting a vacuum but if I pressed on the flask hard enough I would get a vacuum. I'm going to try your gasket sealer tomorrow and see how that does for vacuum sealing. I've been casting aluminum bronze and a silver colored metal for chess pieces. I have done about 50 chess pieces so far and I use R&R ultravest investment for casting material. I have not had any failures so far. Your video gave me the idea of using a gasket sealer I bought some from Ace and we'll see how that works tomorrow. I love your videos and I've learned a lot from them. Heat Resistant Silicone Rubber Sheet Red Heat Resistant Silicone Rubber Sheet,12 x 12 Inch,Smooth Finish,High Temp Silicone Sheet for DIY Gaskets,Seals, Washers,Electric Insulation,Sound Reduction,Leveling Objects VIVOHOME 3 Gallon Vacuum Degassing Chamber with Acrylic Lid and vacuum pump Permatex Optimum Type-1 High Temperature Gasket Maker 3.35 oz 1 pk
Stop speculating and look the video below. It can be used as a knitting device, for ropes, gloves and jewelry. The presentation in the video is very convincing. It was first? discovered 2014 but the presentation lacked in persuasiveness.
@@lundgrenbronzestudios Unless they dig up some scriptural evidence it will remain of course a theory. Are you sure that they also found some without holes? I saw some with very small holes. Anyway, at least she discovered a way to practically use these. Even if it is a theory, it's more useful than Big bang theory and Darwinism together, right?
If one of your stalactites fall and break into fragments, water may drip on it which would create a cave pearl. Cave pearls form when a pool loses carbon dioxide or when calcium minerals dissolve in water and start dripping constantly on a nucleus (a stalactite fragment, or broken rock)
Question for the artist/smith. Is there an avenue to order/purchase a piece from you? I kinda fancy those bronze swords. I know such meticulously hand-crafted items are actually worth quite a lot. I just don't know what " a lot" constitutes and whether or not such a thing would even be in my realistic price-range.
Hello I am from Kerala, India. Can we cast something without vacuum chamber because we are interested to know how we can cast well without vacuum chamber.
Yes you can. A higher riser or length of spru wax can give it more hydrostatic pressure to help force the metal in. But also adding vents to any place that air can get trapped will be a good solution.
I have been subbed for a few weeks now and I like bow you really challange yourself, I do plan on getting into this bronzing in the future to bronze some of my carvings. Maybe we could do a collaboration if u would like, I could do a good carving and send it to u and u do ur thing? Keep up the good work
I haven’t had much time to do collaboration work. I’ve been sticking to my own projects just to keep things easier. I did one collab and it was surprisingly stressful.
those little balls are trapped air bubbles, because he's not yet made a vacuum chamber big enough to degas those insanely huge flasks with. He'll need to not only make a semi decent one from something like thick acrylic and seal it, but also pay for quite an expensive pump to suck the air out fast enough to make it effective. Things like that aren't cheap, or easy to make. Given how easy it is to remove a few bubbles from most surfaces, I think not doing it is acceptable most the time.
@@noviceartisan In the past with smaller patterns, I had good luck hand mixing(minimally) investment, then dropping mixing bowl two feet a couple times to remove left over bubbles, then meticously pouring investment so no bubbles were introduced. A simple vibration table may work as well. How would you remove bubbles from most surfaces on larger items?
