Making Metal Mushrooms 

You know what shia labeouf would say, don't you?

I eat em

Right? Good seeing you here man

@@cromeaxe Cast them out of chocolate instead?

@@Rebar77_real that will be super good 😋

Why waste good mushrooms on casting, just buy the terrible ones from the store to use for casting.

@@draconic5129 yes

@@draconic5129 well, those ones didn't look to bad, there are way worse. If you got a good vendor, you get excellent mushrooms. Back in the restaurant i worked in, we had some self grown and always excelent ones from a good vendor.

@@meloney true they don't look too bad, but they're probably not as good as the ones you can grow on your own. At the very least the ones that you grow yourself will be much fresher than the ones at the store.

@@draconic5129 Not necesserly, those we bought at the vendor were cut the same morning.

Indeed

i wondered: why does the spoon not melt!?

@@BrokenGrandma Steel has a much higher melting temperature than bronze. It's basically the same as sticking a spoon in melted ice

@@Mikemk_ melted ice? like water?

@@TheSwiftTiger yes, melted ice is water

Just to trigger people start calling ice solidified dihydrogen monoxide i sware if people know what you are saying and arent trigger something is wrong with them

only need 650-700F for copper to glow while copper casting is closer to 2000F

@@duncanludlow7768 Ok. I was just mentioning that he said it had gotten a "little" bit hotter, while it had gone from almost not glowing at all to glowing a lot.

Its all relitive

@@SuperAronGamerMNO ⁶]y]]

The Shaggy Mane blew me away. That level of detail and at this stage where its just about to turn to goo.

I've found his recent beekeeping videos on his second channel good if you havent seen those yet!

We found the fun guy

He had surgery for a hernia, his grandmother passed, and Buddy is MIA. Its understandable.

@@gabesnooks3549 oh no :( I hope Cody is okay.

@@gabesnooks3549 -- Ouch! Dang.

Oooh, a bunch of unique mushroom cast doorhandles, thats a great idea!

@@yotyytoy9294 yeah, especially if your going for the elf or hobbit home motif. Nature theme in any home makes it more cozy

that is an excellent idea

Why metal from computer parts? probably a lot of lead.

Wait, so is mushroom casting just like a thing that people do? It’s pretty interesting but I’ve never seen it prior to this video.

Dude i wanna buy a mushroom casting from your dad. How much?

@@tylervue306 eh, kind of my dad got started when he saw anthill art RU-vid channel take a break from casting ant hills to doing mushrooms. I am told by my father but there is this whole mushrooming community and there is a small subset of them that also cast them. My dad sells them on Etsy

As a former Jeweler, I can't like enough the suggestion of keeping the mold hot. We often chose 30 to 40 percent of the casting metal's fluid temperature.

@@45nickname I can't order from etsy, I live in australia :(

I have seen footage of a volcanologist collecting lava samples with a spoon(the volcano had some of the least hot lava in the world and it wasn't even obviously incandescing in the video.

breakfast

@@garethbaus5471 It was. You can see in the shadow of his hand at some point

@@Rig0r_M0rtis I was talking about a different video.

Like a very hot tea!

You have just triggered all of my phobias at once.

I would love to see it

Woah

@@Crow.Author photos, mushrooms and tunneling systems within living organisms?

Send mushroom pics

Lol

*Redsmith

Can also change with the type of sand also.

replying to feed the algorithm. Great video on ceramic shell casting by FarmCraft101

This sounds cool, I think this is a hard skill to master, but so rewarding

I was going to mention your videos on casting , You beat me to it.

Check out farmcrafts video. Does a great job @algorithm

What is a mycologist

@@nasdfghidgf8081 fungus biologist

@@aroenweind7244 thank you

Oh dang that’s cool

I'd say slap yourself but honestly I wish I'd thought of it first.

I want to know the average IQ of the comment section on various RU-vid channels. I think Cody's channel might just have the highest.

Mold is fungus

@@graham1158 Correct.

@@The2x4 yeah, I just raised the average IQ of this comment section by 20 points by being here. It does now for sure

Or a tin alloy like britannia.

BONDO! Lol

*More than you want to know: Maybe pre-heat your mushroom in an autoclave/oven to allow penetration. Your artwork is now a giant heat sink. Also immerse it in sand as it cools to slow the process as diff metals cool at different rates and you don't want something contracting fast outside something contracting slowly as it cracks it in half.*

the bronze mushrooms are clearly natural formations. it is currently believed that they are but the discarded armor of large, living mammals. the "dinosaur", as it has been named, molts its husks as it grows, and they surely did not have feathers.

@@boldCactuslad Nah, they'll make it into a conspiracy. *The alien 911 was an alien inside job made by alien communists.*

fossils are just the stone casts of Bones and we don't assume that animals were made of stone, on the other hand we also aren't aliens.

And molten metal.

Lol I'm kinda giggling at this because it can be interpreted in more than one way 😂

@@raffikkiz 😏

@@raffikkiz I mean it was 7/10 yesterday haha

Not if you plan accordingly and use proper materials

@@imdrunken Always finish work to be done, very rarely comes out perfect.

@@electronicsNmore yeah always some sprues and vents...but other than that if you do it properly the rest of the piece should need very very little work

@@electronicsNmore we have a foundry at the school I work at and I am the technician in the glass shop. My specialty is moulds....

@@imdrunken I've cast a bunch of items over the years, but only show one on my channel, a brass turtle. It came out excellent, but a lot of finishing work. The majority of items for decorative purposes will require a lot of finishing work.

As many hours and as much specialized tooling went into this, 100 bucks is way too cheap. For all the aspiring artists out there, don't sell yourself short. Your time is valuable- make sure you're charging for it!

I doubt it as they are indistinguishable from painted plastic. I already saw such faux-bronze statues.

He probably has 50-100$ in materials alone. Would be better off electroplating imho.

Plastic ones probably already exist for a few dollars.

@@donbrewer6865 never tried to sell his artwork. Jk man. I'm just saying, it's not the easiest thing to do.

and the mercury swamp

Be great for gaming. Do it in lead or tin pewter, and paint!

Play let it die, it's all weird shroomage doing all kinds of weird but mostly helpful stuff lol also it's fun

I mean in zelda theres ironshrooms which buff your defense

@@tysanbyrd7532 Is that the online F2P/P2W Dark Soul's inspired game with the skateboarding grim reaper?

Ok so im almost 100% sure your joking but i can totally see that being a saying in the modern age just because people are weird

im only joking if you can prove there hasnt been a chinese lord without garden full of bronze muchrooms few thousands years ago ;)

@@ARM0RP0WER "people are weird" - says a man that choose to be using a rainbow colored pony with tail as his avatar picture.

@@Hello-qq2to i am a person so its still true

No no , he just really obviously likes mushroom chemicals.

dont check my watch history

@@nazmussaquib4686U SMART KID U ALREADY DELETED IT

Mushrooms are alien's spying gadgets.

Username checks out.

Wabi-sabi makes the world beautiful.

its just worms

Yeah and if the metal scrappers get wind of his address you might see the end of his metal mushroom empire as well.

Virgin other youtubers Chad Cody:

It’s aids

What is TikTok? I'm being completely serious.... not sarcastic.

@@samuelmuldoon4839 did you ever use vine or do you currently use any social media

@@samuelmuldoon4839 It's basically RU-vid for high schoolers and people with no attention span, because the videos are all required to be like < 3 minutes. Most are ~1 minute. There are some videos with interesting content, but the vast majority of it is cringy fake pranks and mental/self help "experts" who don't have any qualifications. Not worth sifting through the trash to find the rare uneaten sandwich.

can slap a good price tag on it just because of that.

@@Fuzzycat16 I would pay big monies for something like that especially considering the artist is Cody himself

Morels are hollow. They would be hard to cast in plaster. Maybe 3d print one.

@@pimpnick4920 good point, you need to fill the morel with something first or it will implode. Maybe more plaster?

*More than you want to know: Archaeologists could tell it was post Jul 16 1945/first nuclear detonation because this lost wax/plaster casting involves blowing atmospheric air at molten copper/bronze/silver(pipe solder?), radioactive isotopes that never existed before Trinity Project (Jul 16 1945 Alamogordo New Mexico) inclPlutonium 239, Strontium-90, Caesium-137, and Technetium-99also found their way into nearly every piece of copper/bronze/silver produced. Could you do it in an Argon gas environment and fool them? Probably for that test alone but there might be something in welding argon that tips them off IF they ever tested for it. My guess is that no one tests for it, but control your temperature because with current methods you may be getting material hotter than ancient methods and burning out impurities that exist in ancient methods and are visibly identifiable.*

Actually I bet people have done that before with other things.

I have a hard time believing you Florida man. The only thing right with the world is Cody making metal mushrooms.

@@hawnshill7441 Please let's just believe the lie together for a moment. Please.

I mean, it *is* stainless steel. It makes a good dross skimmer because its thermal conductivity is so low.

@@tissuepaper9962 yeah, it makes sense, but it _feels_ weird :D

It is that down-to-earth lack of pretension about Cody that I love. You could by a $4000 tungsten core spoon with graphite coating... or "just use a kitchen spoon" which does the job just fine.

😂

The edge of the mushroom was higher than the rest of the body, too. a riser or two would have helped the gas escape instead of getting trapped there

I want to see the confused archeologists in a few millennia. "How did all of these mushrooms grow right next to each other, and how the heck did they turn bronze?".

@@OrigamiMarie if they're smart enough then this would just be classified as "Cody"

@@XVIIstarPt_ oh yeah, I suppose they would quickly figure out that certain areas just have a lot of interesting objects made by people.

Shrigma male comment

Geez you're a Fungi

Good one

Lol

god damn you >:( Just take my fucking like

It’s the heat. 😉

this begs for... dum dum duuuuuum, hot soup challenge

@@theCodyReeder Ah, chili peppers. I see.

I wish he did, would make for an interesting vid

@@mouwersor definitely. But RU-vid would strike him within seconds :/

@@MichiGombocz then he would upload it to bitchute

@@bitterlemonboy but he does not have a channel there, or does he?

That's NileRed's next project.

Man, I wish had all those tools.

Mushrooms are cool man! Bronze sculptures are also cool man! Bronze sculptures of mushrooms are doubly cool!

@@cr4zyj4ck Hell yeah, man!

cody IS the bronze shroom

It varies greatly depending on the mushroom's habitat and/or proximity to roads and sources of heavy metals

Different mushroom ;)

Yeah, sorta like a pinecone or flower, but tastier.

"Fruiting body" I believe is the correct term. ;)

The subtitle just assumed what the viewers were doing - (it was correct)

It is an option, just not a very good one. you'd need to bake at very high temperatures for days. Use a lot of energy.

I suspect the heat would damage the cast even more, and eventually you'll have a fragile thing that turns into a pile of dust when you try to handle it, instead of a paster mold. Though maybe a lower, slower evaporation run would work?

Before someone tries to tell me how stupid I am yes I am aware that's not soup, I was making a joke. You might not find it funny, my job is not to humor you but my wife laughed and that's good enough

HOI!

@@sinfulldreamer Hoi. Wan tem flake? I has many.

Exactly what I was thinking

tripped over by a mushroom

Tripping hard on mushrooms

Well, they deserve it for wanting to destroy living things for their sole amusement

@@raffaeledivora9517 I see what you're saying but kicking mushrooms really isn't that big of a deal. If anything I guess you're helping it spread its spores around with that kick lolol.