There's something so comfortingly human about this video. Seeing him struggle a bit with certain things and make some little mistakes (in the way that any of us would), seeing bites taken out of the little piece of cheese left in the corner (and seeing it get smaller and smaller with every jump cut), seeing him use simple easily-on-hand materials rather than fancy ones, the way the video is made in a personable style rather than being heavily scripted and polished...it's all just very human and nice. :)
As a former foundry moulder and furnace operator, then eventually melting area foreman, I must comment that I am really impressed with your grasp of the casting process and your use of the correct terminology. 👍
I love it when you try new crafts, especially because you're an advocate for using what you have on hand and things you can find in your environment. Most art and craft content creators buy lots and lots of things that end up being very expensive and not always accessible, and often horrendous for the environment in terms of plastic packaging and shipping across the ocean. My favorite creators all have in common that they emphasise using affordable and/or free accessible things for their projects. Your methods are not fancy or polished, but they're doable for the average person and always interesting. Also like that you often show mistakes. Thank you for all the great content.
Couple of notes: I would highly suggest, as it's thick enough, to do at least one brush on layer first if you've got the time. It really helps reduce any bubbles at the surface of the model. And also, after you pour the mix out into a clean container, you don't really want to be pouring it back into the dirty container before the final pour, just straight from the second container is fine. EDIT: I realise I didn't actually say anything about the result and might have sounded too critical. I think they look great, and seems like a nice beginner project. I really enjoy the variety of this channel, bucking the trend of having a million channels for different types of content. Thanks!
For depth of image, we would take our painted gaming figures and give them a wash with a beer bottle cap (yes, precise measurements) of thinner with just a single drop of black paint in it. That sinks into the crevices and gives the illusion of shadow. Beautiful shells- so glad you got both the inside and out!
Only in Atomic shrimps channel you can go from making a video about homemade cheese in the previous video to casting metal in seashells....🤣🤣appreciate the variety of content that this channels always offers
Came out very nice - I cast a lot of fossils and we have found that older silicone can gel quickly so perhaps you got an older batch. It's also strongly affected by temperature, so if the 2 parts were a little bit cooler (garage temperature at this time of year would work slower than room temp) you would have had more working time. Wax furniture polish (proper wax, not the spray stuff...) is also a good release agent and you can buff it with a toothbrush before moulding. You can also mix a small batch of silicone up and stipple on a thin coat with a stiff brush first, working it into all of the detail. Then backfill with more rubber just as the first coat is setting, bubbles are less of a problem. Finally the depression in the setting metal is known as "pipe" in the casting industry - it's more of a problem with low melting point eutectic alloys. Moulding and casting is good messy fun though!
Wow great job! I really enjoyed seeing this done using a different approach. They came out really nice looking! I had seen few of your scammer videos in the past so seeing you do this seems like such a coincidence. Also, I didn’t realize Saffron is also a liquid. Hope you saved it. That’s worth a lot of money!
What a lovely video, I really enjoyed the occasional ASMR parts. I really like your tinkering stuff, the amazing variety on this channel truly appeals to me.
As for making the texture a bit more interesting: What we have done with aluminium castings is brush them with linseed oil and then take a soft gas flame to them to oxidise the oil. Will take a lot of care with pewter, but might work. You get a scale of very deep browns in the hollows to light golds on the high spots.
As a frenchy, I always was fascinated by this word: pewter, puter... this metal thing. Since I've came across your channel, I did develop a fondness for ELEMENTS. I love it here.
Sorry about the comments I made earlier, now deleted. Childish. Genuinely have learned a tonne of stuff from your videos and appreciate the genuine effort you make in providing interesting and informative content. I should know better for a 52yr old. 👍
I am not sure it is a cooking channel either i came for scambaiting and ended up with mushroom soup and garlic bread some strange ornaments and a DIY led lamp to help me with my new found interest in foraging wild garlic.
I’m new around here. I binged watched all the food budget videos over the last couple of days. Very entertaining. I honestly never thought I’d be watching videos about casting metal into seashells but I’m here for it all 😂
I love watching these videos because unlike a lot of RU-vidrs, you know how to, and will just... make do. I've watched these kind of 'home diy project' videos by other people who will encounter an issue, or a non-ideal situation, and go spend $200 at a hardware store on some specialty item that kinda ruins the feasibility of doing it myself. I'm always so happy that I found this channel. Came for the scambaiting, stayed for Mr. Shrimp.
They remind me of giant monopoly pieces/ figures. I think they turned out amazing and I want to make some too! Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it
By using a massage vibrator or a vibrating sander against the mold, it can release the air bubbles if the mold material has a bit longer time to set up. I would love to see you make a chess set out of cast pewter shells, and maybe a nice board out of "found" scrap wood.
Melted a lot of pewter in my childhood, making casts of soldiers and such. Learnt a couple of new words in this vid, like "dross" and the difference of pewter and tin. Love it mate. :)
I'd seen that video myself a while back, and I've REALLY been wanting to try it- but alas, due to neighbour complaints I've been banned from casting aluminium, copper, etc. I can do pewter without them noticing though. Would never have thought to try casting shells with it, but now I shall have to give it a go...
Very nice. I was well pleased when you decided to keep the base of the seashell; rather than trying to cut it off. I reckon you could make these as an attachment to a curtain rod or the top of a cane.
Really enjoyed this video . Spent hours on the beach collecting shells and made allsorts of crafts over the years with the shells ,never any thing this good. Would love to try this.
You must've been one helluva fun father to have while the kids were growing up. I'm more creative than the average, but though I always thought Baby Bell cheese wax was cool stuff I'da never thought of saving it to use for something on my own. What a cool project and informative video. My 10 year old grandson introduced me to you, he loves the scambaiting videos most. We love watching them together, and all of the rest too. You're such an interesting guy!
Hey! I just started melting metal this month, what wonderful timing. Maybe I'll be able to try this And if you want a good cheap way to melt aluminum, I use a charcoal fire in two buckets with a layer of sand in between, a metal pipe elbowed in the bottom, and a hair dryer connected with pvc fittings. It doesn't even need a lid to melt aluminum if you set it up right.
Those are very well done! My brother used to cast pewter pieces for his customers, but the cost of pewter put him out of that part of his business. With the metal now costing well over $40 /lb. and the requirement for 7 lb. ingots minimum, he can no longer afford to do that because like everything else these days the customers want everything for pennies no matter how much the raw materials cost. He used to make the "master" part using a 3d printer and then the master was impressed into raw rubber which was then vulcanized. Once the rubber was vulcanized, he would cut his vents into the mold, set it up on the spin caster and then pour his pewter in. Using his stereo lithographic printer, he was able to cast medallions with very small legible text on them for various customers. In addition to the spin casting, he did some sand casting as well and created his own casting box. He cast his own latches and used those to hold his sandbox together and used to cut the sprue and vents into the sand using very sharp sculpting tools.
Oh this was right up my alley! I often use impressions in my art, and I've taken moulds of all sorts of stones/shells/ammonites/treebark etc. I've never tried metal casting but I cant wait to see what your shells turn into. My first thought was doorknobs haha!
It just confirms my suspicion, that 90% of people on any given channel subscribe for the personalilty of the creator, not the actual content. The content is, what first attracts them....but they stay, because they enjoy 'hanging out' with the person.
So it's been three days, I had a notification for your veggi burger video but this went unnoticed, silently crept into my feed without me seeing it, I was Soo exited when I checked your channel and it was just sat there unwatched and alone, I've been craving a shrimpy videos for ages 👍🙂
A fun video. Thank you. And you have two interesting ornaments. I am surprised at how similar they look. I was expecting the inner one to be much smaller.
I love pewter. It's a lovely shade of gray. Not as brilliant as silver, but still pretty! This turned out really well, especially for someone just "Having a go." My landlord would probably tear my head off if I replicated this, though.
Interesting little project, and I think I'm in agreement that the sprue should stay on. They might make quite interesting little door-knockers (maybe more practical with a larger shell), or perhaps a door handle, or even the top for a stamp/seal.
Hmmm, im curious as to what will be made out of resin... something useful. Maybe successively larger shell segments for a demonstration on how these creatures build their shells?
The casting looks like a lot fun. I like that wax, but it makes awful candles. They smoke like mad, but it makes good fire starters when smudged around onto small sticks.
This is the second video I've watched today that has had melting pewter in it! (How to Cook That debunked casting your own power plug in molten metal which was uploaded today too)
The pieces you've got out of this remind me of the king and queen in a chess set. Perhaps you could explore more shells, make a whole chess set out of pewter casts?
if I had to guess because you said you were going to make something useful, well then decorative bedpost? Door knobs? or perhaps the ends on a very fancy toilet paper holder.
You can use Kinetic Sand (children toy sand) for casting, it hold pewter rather well and it is mostly reusable, as the waste is very small per casting.
@@neopalm2050 Not entirely, no, because you just create "a mold" to use once and then just keep using the original form to recreate the mold; it will also not do inner shell casting, for obvious reasons and I'd imagine even outer shell cast would be difficult due to the shell narrowing down at the top. . But if you need to do one instance of casting or don't mind quickly re-creating the 'mold' every time, kinetic sand can be very useful and it is much less fiddly than silicon to work with in this way. My recommendation was more on general side, in case if Mr. Atomic Shrimp wants to experiment with casting more but doesn't wish to do a separate silicone mold for each attempt.
