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  1. Tobho Mott

    New member - Ottawa area metal caster

    Hello again!
  2. Tobho Mott

    New member - Ottawa area metal caster

    Hi! Sounds like a great setup for cast aluminum, have you got a lot of heats on that lining yet? Should last a good while for aluminum casting. Maybe we can check out each other's casting setups some day (once I get my mess tidied up). I think you'd melt your diy lining getting iron to...
  3. Tobho Mott

    New member - Ottawa area metal caster

    I've bought Everdur (silicon bronze) from Sculpture Supply in the past. I still have a little. I see it's a lot more expensive now. Tempting to try alloying some myself if I can find the silicon and manganese... Bill Jurgenson told me he used to buy everdur ingots from a company called Alloy...
  4. Tobho Mott

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    I'm just glad I'm not the one in charge of welding it up! The difference in alloy between the cast A356 and the tig wire and the extruded plate sections is a concern, hopefully he'll be able to mask any obvious colour changes with patination and other surface treatments. He has started...
  5. Tobho Mott

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    That's awesome, I would have loved to see that. The big furnace above came from an art foundry near Niagara Falls, where Bill Jurgenson cast silicon bronze sculpture for a number of artists for 4 decades as well. Including some very large pieces. Although he specialized in lost wax casting...
  6. Tobho Mott

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    That's an A25. Biggest one I've ever used. My 12x16 casting shed is too small to run my really big furnace that takes an A70, where would so many (or such big) molds go? A6 for scale But I've got the gear.to.handle it (with a gantry crane) once I finally save up enough to build a bigger...
  7. Tobho Mott

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    Looks great! Interesting technique too. 3D printing has definitely been a useful tool for me here as well. Every one of these were cast using 3D printed patterns. Most are cope and drag flask sides... Well not these shoebox lid accents Casting class toolkits This was the last of those...
  8. Tobho Mott

    Casting aluminum

    I'm curious what it looks like too. Also wasn't sure if "in the works" meant yes he has found a foundry or yes he has a pattern ready. :) Jeff
  9. Tobho Mott

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    Not easily! :) It's different than anything else I've worked on, that's for sure... My first time using 2-man crucible tools, that's been fun. Jeff
  10. Tobho Mott

    Casting aluminum

    This sorted yet? If not, I'm wondering if you have got a foundry pattern prepared. I'm way out in Ontario, definitely not near Calgary as requested, but whoever ends up with this job will need to know. I checked the member map we have on another forum where I mod (thehomefoundry.org), but...
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