Making a Bronze mini sculpture for a friend who is a Mail Snail 

Lost wax casting is the way to go when casting figures like this, unfortunately it does require some equipment that I do not have... yet 😋

Hay Ian

The craftsman is definitely a good show steady crafting ✌️

An honour indeed Ian !

OMG!! I am a big fan of your work! I would like to make you one too, would you like a Bronze mail snail?

There is a whole lot of science behind getting a good quality sand casting done, I went over the basics and still cut some parts out as I did not want a 90 minute video 😂 Thanks for watching Sharky! 👍👊 I was looking at some cool shark models earlier for a possible future casting but that will be for when I get my 3D printer up and running!

Hey thanks for watching, this was a fun project, don't forget to check out the Crafsman! I bet your kids would like his channel, awesome small DIY crafting projects 👍👊

That is not a bad idea, maybe I'll try that in the future 👍 And yes Sharky is a cool bottle opener 😋👍👊

Beer in the shed in the Rain, does it get any better 👍

Thanks Tobho Mott! I was actually thinking about that, although I don't think I'll be making that many of them, unless there is going to be a large demand, I'll have to check with The Crafsman if that happens though 👍👊

You and me both! 😅 Thanks for watching 👍👊

The only reason I made this is so that I may one day receive an Ian Matthews sticker 😂😋👍

@@ralphmourik 😳

Thanks Thewulf 56, this was a fun little project, good thing I got myself a new Dremel 😋👍👊

Welcome to the insanity that is my midlife crisis! 😋😂👍

So I was not the only one with this idea 😋 I was actually thinking this would not work with sand casting and lost wax would be te only way, but looking back now this whole project can easily be done in a day even with all the grinding and polishing. Thanks for watching, and please film your castings and upload them, would love to see them! 👍👊

🤔 you got one after a year. What ya on about.

@@Man-in-da-shed 🤣🤣🤣 I know I am one of a few who own your Signiture Sticker (very rare) and I really do love you old friend but I already wait for more than a year for your IM Sticker.... 🤣🤣🤣

Hello HazyDaze! Thanks for watching 👍👊

no worries it was a good vid...

Yes hopefully it will arive this month, I will do a live unboxing and setup, look for the notification 👍👊

Hi HotMetal, thanks for watching! the sand I use is a home made mixture of very fine aquarium or birdcage sand I got at a pet store and grounded up kat litter witch is bentonite, about 85% sand and 15% bentonite powder, works just as good as pertobond, maybe even better, no smell, no fire and about 10x cheaper. 😋👊👍

This was actually a short project for me, making the mold was about 40 minutes while the metal was melting, the pour is only a few seconds, 15 min to let it cool and dig it out, the grinding and sanding and polishing was the most work off course, although using the grinder instead of my Dremel because it broke sped things up a bit, think that took me about 5 hours all together, I had 2 hours and 30 minutes of video, the editing took me about 2-3 hours. So I guess about 11-12 hours of actual work for the whole project.

@@ralphmourik Nice! Yes I thought it looked like a long video editing process!! My trip to the recycle centre took hours to edit because of all the blurring out and speeding up! Anyway, it's great for us to be able to watch it from strat to finish.....now just got to wait patently for you to edit your next dumpster diving one lol🙂

Yes the bentonite clay in the sand is sticky so the talc helps release the pattern from the sand and keeps the halves separate indeed 👍

The whole project, start to finish, including editing was about 12 hours, I would say grinding, cleaning and polishing was about 5-6 hours 😅👍

Happened completely by accident, I was looking up something related to the video game Minecraft about melting metal and I stumbled upon a video by The King of Random: the Mini Metal Foundry, I made my own version of this DIY furnace and started melting cans.... and I was hooked!! 😋👍👊