Love Casting

Aluminium and copper foundry. The furnace is fed by charcoal and wood.

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My sixth variant of propane furnace for aluminium scrap melting and casting into simple forms.

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My second aluminum casting with a homemade electric foundry. See www.budgiemetalworks.ca for info on how I built it and other details. Thanks for watching!

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An A8 crucible of cast iron

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Chris casting iron with his Artful Bodger’s Waste Oil Furnace, see www.artfulbodgermetalcasting.com for more details

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DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!! An overview of my aluminum foundry. Only cost me about $30 bucks at Ace Hardware. Got some scrap aluminum at a welding yard for free and tried to mold them into ingots using a wal-mart muffin pan.

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How to make a casting from making the sand mould to the finished item. The video has been edited to fit the 10 minute time limit of You tube. It takes much longer than this!

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Video by Robert Clarke. A bronze casting demonstration held May 2008 at Glendarragh Studios, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
http://www.umha-aois.com

“Umha Aois” (Irish for “Bronze Age”) is an ongoing experimental project organised on a volunteer basis by a committee formed of artists & archaeologists. Through research and experimentation we are attempting to rediscover our Bronze Age ancestors’ casting methods, and in the process empower the artists involved with unique approaches to working in bronze.

This video demonstrates our discovered techniques to date, using bellows to power a small charcoal fired furnace, melting bronze in a hand made crucible, and casting into a clay mould. The mould is broken open afterwards to reveal a typical Irish Bronze Age axehead.
Please note that although we are striving for “authenticity”, some aspects are still in development, such as the lifting tongs, forged by Umha Aois member Mary Jane Verniere. Also we have not allowed “authenticity” to stifle any creative ideas, and as such we do not pretend that our methods reflect any specific time period or place, but rather we strive for a reproducible approach to working small scale bronze with ‘primitive’ technologies, taking the Irish Bronze Age as our main inspiration.

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In part one I made the sand mould. Now I melt metal and complete the casting.

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How to make a greensand mould using a loose piece.

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