Pouring the Tally Ho Capstan: Final Pour Unabridged Version 

This capstan project has been just as compelling as the Tally Ho boat build. I feel like I just finished watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy! Thanks for taking the time to film / explain / share these videos. I'll admit that I know nothing about foundry work and it was hard for me to understand the specifics of all of the challenges involved, but these last few videos were very insightful and it's clear that this project went to the right crew for the job. Congrats to everybody involved!

Congratulations! A worthy piece of hardware for Tally Ho.Thanks for sharing the process with all the ups and downs. Truly inspiring.

Steve, don't worry yourself over us in the comment section. It is pretty obvious this is a really difficult pour, and a one time pour at that. Just do what you do, I am loving the whole series. Those who complain about the length apparently don't know how to watch a RU-vid video.

I watched the final pour on Clarke's channel and that crucible was NASTY FULL ! ..... gave me the "willies" just watching the pour ! Good to see Clarke's dad , Mr. Easterling show up for the final product . Once again, thank you Steve for all your contributions !

To hell with the "I know better" mob who never done nuthin! Well done guys!!!

Great to watch the progress on this. Glad you were able to help out Clark to a successful conclusion.

Amazing work. Never had any doubt. Funny, you had told us way out it was successful but the negative nannies kept firing away. Thanks for sharing!!

There's a boat builder out there who really appreciates the effort and time you took to help in his dream. You're deserving of recognition . Great job .

Total respect for the skill, patience and dedication to get the job done from 🇬🇧

Good seeing Clark with his Dad … always nice to see a Dad and Lad picture

I know a little about everything, so I know better than to think that is easy. When I saw the original crack a Keith’s my heart dropped, because I knew how difficult it would be to remake it. The boys came through in the end, it’s not over yet. All kinds of “fun” can happen in the next step. Thanks for sharing.

You know, as progress is made in design, new material, new production methods you simply can't say: Oh, we will do that because they did that a hundred years ago. Time changes everything. It is almost reinventing what they did in the olden day. They were the artisans of their day, and every project they did they did learn. Thank you for showing that learning process. ❤

Thanks for taking this on. Hope your patience wears off on me.

Steve, it was worth the wait-I knew you were waiting until Clark was able to publish his completion video before publishing yours. Now I gotta watch Keith machine it. Have a beer on me!🎉

Steve you have a great gift at story tellings. The extra work you have done to provide context and detail into the nuances and challenges of this pour have showcased the difficulty and skill needed to pull off this project. Hats of to Clarke, you, and the other members of the team that helped make the Tally Ho capstan project a success. I look forward to watching more of your content as well. Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant, brilliant watch. 35 year old school machinist here, loved every minute of it, and not going to tell you how to do what you do!! Thank you so much for your contribution to the Tally Ho project, this has been epic. ♥♥ Hope Leo gives you all a ride on her.

I had an uncle who was a pattern maker. I was always impressed with the beautiful finish on his pieces. Now I know why.

What an incredible amount of patience and willingness to keep trying. I have cast small things and can't even imagine this complexity.

From the pattern making to the casting and on to the machining the craftsmanship has been very rewarding to watch. Leo has the right team on the job, great work guys!

Thankyou please explain as much as is required, it appreciated.

👍on Clark's Tally Ho sailboat ride!

Thanks man! I love a seasoned sense of humour and you can talk all you like; you earned it with your dedication and support. Tally Ho! Let's get em! :)

I am happy to hear that you are aware of the fact that some RU-vidrs don’t like talking. It’s those same people that can probably make that Capstan in one pour, well don’t worry you guys are getting great practice and soon you too will be as good as those other guys. No matter what you do or say, there will always be people out there that are smarter than you, if you don’t believe me just ask them. You guys are doing great work, I hope Leo at least takes you all out for a ride on the boat when it’s finished. Leo is going to end up with a million dollar boat that only cost him $1.00. Blessings to you all, happy Palm Sunday. ❤

Clark and the others like you are just plain great. Thanks for leaving up the printed for we the hard of seeing. The molds seem to take forever to make Fails are just part of the game eh. Patience is a real virtue when it's time to do the tapping. Rush it and we have to start over. No If's, and's or but's. Molds are a cruel thing. It is a rare day while pouring I don't learn something new. I have only been at it for 8 years now, LOL. You fellas, Keith and Leo are quite the bunch of great professionals at what you all do. Onward eh, (yup I'm a Canuckian, LOL EH)

You got some splainin' to do Lucy. Love these videos, well done. Again the skill and knowledge that goes into this outstanding.

Thanks a bunch Steve. I have followed along since the start. I cast but at a smaller size. One ounce Troy silver up to 15 ozt. No difference aside from size.

These side jobs of things being done for tally ho are awesome! I can't think of another large project that has so well showcased what goes into some of the trickier pieces being made. My point is this so well documents each step of making these parts that it preserves the knowledge at least in part. I would love to see this whole project as a branching dvd / web page multimedia experience

After Tally Ho's sea trials I am sure Leo would be proud for you to enjoy a cruise together.

Triumph through perseverance! Well done, gentlemen!

Very informative. Thanks for taking the time to explain all the details. I can understand that it's a process, with multiple adjustments toward the successful pour.

Hello Steve. Thank you for making this video. You are very articulate in your descriptions and commentary. I had to laugh when you talked about Clarke going barefooted In fact, I have planned, to do that this spring, when the weather warmed up, and I start molding again I’m sure my feet would be uglier than clarkes.

The thing about a master craftsman is he can make a complex job look simple.

Congratulations on your success! You guys ROCK. Remember opinions are like butt holes everyone's got one and they all stink.

Good honest skilful hard-working people. Thanks for showing how casting is done. Learned a lot. Joe

Just a few old men playing in the sand , bet they wére glad to get home ! Great work . Hi from the land down under

Great you were able to help Clark out on this and document it for history.

Describing, explaining, demonstrating are all signs of one hellofa good teacher. Keep it up.🤜🤛

Nice, and Leo will give you a ride anytime you want.

Any project will always attract a critical audience. Reminds me of a mob of cockatoos that used to watch the outdoor picture theatre in Onslow Western Australia. These birds would sit in the gum trees behind the seating and give a running commentary on the action on the screen and during some gun action the noise would make it impossible to hear the dialogue. Almost as entertaining as the movie itself. This effect is just a fact of life. Great video.

Great result, and great video as well. Don’t let people tell you not to talk to much. It is how others learn. I did some small brass and bronze pouring, but looking at this size, the temperatures involved to melt the metal? Luckily I only ever had one accident, and the damage was survivable. But people have no idea about how impossibly much energy is stored in molten metal. So kudos to Windy Hill Foundry and you as well. And hope Leo appreciates it as well.

Great teamwork, seeing all that experiance that have had failures to gain knowledge about what works and doesn't .

It’s great to see a trade man that enjoys his trade well done 👍

Hi Steve, I was in your neck of the woods today. Had breakfast at the barn. We are looking for a house with land. Two week trip. The power hammer is working great. Thanks for sharing the videos with us. Bryan.

I've never done anything like this nor know what it is you are doing other than making the capstan but i will say you guys are all professionals and obviously know what you are doing.

Great job. Staying positive while having to redo is tough. Ice cream, beer and pizza in your future!

You have shown a very raw video of the making of the capstan. The reason it looks so much better or easier in other channels is because they only show the part were everything went perfect. A friend who is a vidiographer, invited me to downtown Nashville where he was filming a new addition of an old historic building. A big company with a bunch of professionals. Plumbers, electricians, carpentry, masonry. A carpenter didn't measure correctly, or used the wrong cut. An electrician blew a fuse, they to recalculating water preasure because they couldn't get it right. Everybody made some mistake at some point and had to start over again. Not to mention how much time was wasted with peole walking around waiting for something to get done. Very frustrating watching workers walking around waiting or on breaks. I think more time was spent on editing than filming. The vidoe looks like if everybody was precise, efficient and finish in a fraction of the time. If you would have just done 3 videos. Part 1. Initial pour; Part 2. Tweaking mistakes; Part 3. Getting it right.😉. Comments? Darn, you guys are just impressive! Masters of the craft! Who needs a big company when there are people like you! Avoid all those who don't know that even big industries don't always get it right the first time, and there's always people walking around on their phone waiting for something else to be done.😂

Thanks for the bonus footage!

Bravo. Now we can all breathe again!😁

That is true old school fabrication, thanks for guys.

Respect for your craftmanship! love your videos.

Good to see this come to a fruitful conclusion 👍Thank you for helping out Tally Ho!

fantastic achievement and great perseverance without which nothing is possible!😊👍

It is nice to visualize the patience required and appreciate the complexity. I was holding my breath too. Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations for your victory in this hard won battle! Great job!

I really appreciated the narration in part 3. I could not visualize how the mold segments and inserts were integrated into the final casting. I have to tip my hat to the perseverance you need. I would have invested too much emotion into the preparation for each pour to cope with the disappointment when things don’t work out quite right.🙏

That was a complicated pouring , highly respect to you and Clark and all the others. Greetings from Germany.

Tkzz for all the teachings,.,.I enjoyed every video made about this part,..,.,Tali Ho is a Fancy Gal.,,.she loves perfection ,...and all the videos were perfect for Her story,.,.,PEACE

A thin, flexible and tip controlled fiber endoscope with adequate lighting will provide vision into the remotest corners of your moulds.

"...sorry, can't help myself". That one got me hahahaha

The whole thing looks like a blast !!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you for taking the time to show the process thoroughly.

Great work 👍🇺🇸

Fine work fellas!! 😊👍 👏👏👏

I love your determination and striving for a perfect job. Good job!

I did some foundry work back in High School, mainly just aluminum. Oh boy I had fun but it was hard work and a lot of molds. I feel Clack there has forgotten more than I ever knew. This was a hard one and the amount of times he and the guys did this over is not all that much. Great work guys and props to a man that knows his job and dose it well.

I think you guys did a fantastic job 💯

Thank you for doing this. That was a very challenging casting - so not only do you need the skills- you also need determination and a tad of bloody mindedness.😉👍

I have none of this guy's skills or experience, but I recently tried making a two part mould so that I could make a forged carbon fibre part and it is a nightmare even for a small part. Making parts by using a pattern to make a mould and then casting the part from that mould seems to me to be a process that has it's own failure built in at every step, and you are lucky when it works, I admire the tenacity to keep going in the face of adversity. (sorry if the spelling of mould and fibre is upsetting - I'm in the UK 😁)

When I used to build balsa wood models (about 45 years ago) I would paint them with something called Dope. I would put coat after coat on, sanding between them. In the end I wound up with a glass smooth surface that I could then paint. (my P38 was a thing to behold) I know you are done and it does not matter at all now, but could you have used dope or epoxy coating to make a smooth surface? Clark dancing a jig on the sand, with you and Keith Rucker as back up dancers. - now that would be TikTok worthy.

Great job guys! Better than Bernini !!!!

Great work! Greetings from the netherlands

The phrase "Bit of more than they could chew", springs readily to mind, but hats off to your for your perseverance and your eventual success.

A saw horse with some plywood and my 77 Yamaha RD400's tank bag stuffed with rags offered a stable resting platform with finicky mold separations and... I recalled a surgical opt out right before my sciatica leg fire turned 6.

Don't be so hard on yourself... Problems are sent to test us, the art in the genius is to get over them.👍🤔

Clark I understand completely I work in a foundry and free hand patterns suck

Loving your work ✊

Fantastic!!!!!

Thanks!

Thanks for explaning the unseen Details .. like many other Jobs .. some Things take longer even if it look easy .. it is not ! Sure Experience helps but it's not always the main Way .. sometimes you need an "creativ Detour" to fix it

Really good seeing you guys put that together, still dont know quite what it is yet but ill find out, just like when Leo was pouring the keel but so much more complicated, well done.

Congratulations on a job well done 👏

more power to you guys great job 👍

Great work, a real tribute to the old-time craftsmanship! Truly amazing what they were able all this time ago. Are you going to make a spare one? Since you now seem to have the process locked in?

Nice job! Glad you kept after it! One question as hard as it was to pull the pattern off the bottom could you have made the bottom out of the CO2 core material? I'm sure complicated.

But, but. I like it! Thank You. 😊

Wow superb

Nice work and don't let the keyboard bullies get to you

When I was a kid there was no RU-vid. There were plenty of WW1 vets and WW2 Vets and Vietnam was on. Stories were told and You could spot a Phony a mile away! Us Kids Knew Marines are Stationed at Camps and Army is stationed at Forts and We knew all the names of the Navy ships, because most of our Parents were Vets, that grew up in the great depression. kids these days think they are experts in everything but have no hands on experience with anything. When My Sergeant asked Me If I could drive A jeep I said yes and I figured it out in less than 30 seconds although my only experience was riding a motorcycle. My Parents could do anything, kids these days want something for nothing sometimes.

6:48 HeHe 😂 I just love your structural testing “lab” that is a sure way to check if something was good 😊… I’m sure it’s a lot of fun running the tests through the lab 😂😂😂❤

Steve, I learn more while you are talking. 😂

"Do you guys want to see Clark runnin around barefoot on a mold?" Internet: "Has he ever been on the internet before?"

this has been a fascinating process, keep the long videos coming! tictoc versions are for twinkies

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How has Clark not wrecked his back?

very good video steve

Talk away I like your videos.

Great result! Just a curiosity, is there any reason you couldn't use the co2 activated silicon sand for the main mold itself?

oh make it longer. I want to see it all. every dirty detail. 😁

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Thanks ! Is it possible to see the machining being done or the finished product ?