I pour molten bronze into a casting system that ends up against tempered glass (we call it toughened glass in the UK). We get to see inside the mould (well inside the mold as if the cope was glass).
I cast my channel name just in case some cool footage occurred... i was fully expecting the glass to explode everywhere! Mistakes were made but overall things were pretty good!!!
Also today's video served a few other purposes...
To have a bit of fun doing something unknown and possibly create a cool little intro video clip for the channel. Inadvertently i may have also discovered a method of toughened glass 'engraving' - this is the first time i've heard of anything engraving tempered glass.
Oh yes... as it was 'a bit of fun' with a high chance of failure i didn't record any talkie pieces to camera, which meant editing this thing took a quarter of the time a video of this length normally would.
Also i could concentrate my editing time on the interesting shots and edits, rather than spending my time removing beer belly's, um's and er's (these three things take up 90% of my time lol).
So if you enjoyed this 'different' video, please let me know, as i'm keen to do more of these. I'm starting to see why this style of silent(ish) video are so common on RU-vid. They are a simple kind of thing. I really enjoyed the change.
Since i've shot the video i have changed my mind about the letters. It's the little stalks - they are cool looking :) i might keep them (until i need the bronze that is).
PLEASE LIKE, SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE :)
A few guys have mentioned Andrew Martin in the comments, he has some really cool videos of casting against glass, in fact i'm all most certain now in retrospect, that when Perry (swdweeb) told me about one of them a few months ago, i must have squirrelled away an idea to try something similar. Here is one such video (go sub he's great!): • Foundry 9: Glass Flask 1
and finally thank you so much, all of you, I've particularly enjoyed doing the videos recently and i think it's because i'm changing things up a bit and trying new things and you are giving me great feedback and telling me you're enjoying the new stuff.
And that's always been the point of my channel... to try new things and have fun trying them!
15 сен 2024
