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patternmaking

  1. Tobho Mott

    New patternmaking and sand casting project: Dice Dungeon

    In Dungeons & Dragons, rolling a natural 20 on an attack roll with the 20 sided die (d20) is an automatic hit that deals double damage. A natural 1 is an automatic miss. We call them critical hits and critical misses, respectively. Some nights things just don't go well. Clearly this is the...
  2. Tobho Mott

    Today in Tobho's foundry

    I had 3 molds put on my shed for a few days, waiting to get poured in cast aluminum... So today I went out to fix that. Discovered my nemesis the red squirrel isn't quite done messing with me. It was bad enough when he crammed my whole corner shelf full of rotting walnuts a couple weeks...
  3. Tobho Mott

    Tips/Techniques Super easy durable cast aluminum match plate patterns

    I've seen people cobble together steel spacer frames and backfill the seams with sand and pray to Vulcan for no leakers in order to cast metal match plate patterns before (Mr. Pete has an old series on his youtube channel showing this way), but the hack I came up with to save time and effort is...
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