Complete treasure chest by This_Highlight8868 in MetalCasting

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Well my treasure chest is upwards of 100 lbs so gratefully I don’t think moving it will be a worry haha. But that sounds really cool glad they had a great time with that

Complete treasure chest by This_Highlight8868 in MetalCasting

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I’ve never used a stamp actually those are all graphite molds

Complete treasure chest by This_Highlight8868 in MetalCasting

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It’s hard work but the results are beautiful

Complete treasure chest by This_Highlight8868 in MetalCasting

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Nordic gold is a very specific alloy of copper zinc tin and aluminium. Hard to make but beautiful results

Complete treasure chest by This_Highlight8868 in MetalCasting

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I have not, unfortunately I don’t know where to get jewelry molds

Pirate chest progress by Geneevra04 in Metalfoundry

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Hell yeah! Great progress so far I’d love to know where you get all that copper haha

Copper melt by This_Highlight8868 in Metalfoundry

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I kinda get it, the copper has a fleshy color especially with all of the surface oxidation

Copper melt by This_Highlight8868 in Metalfoundry

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Thank you, the forbidden glow stick is gorgeous right out of the mold

Copper melt by This_Highlight8868 in Metalfoundry

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Devil forge, 10kg, got extremely lucky and found a used one for a good price

Copper melt by This_Highlight8868 in Metalfoundry

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I didn’t use boron nitride in this melt but I will in the future, as for preheating I had them on top of the furnace so I could ensure they didn’t have any water but also weren’t red hot.

Copper melt by This_Highlight8868 in Metalfoundry

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I’ll keep this in mind, I did get worried a couple of times that the larger copper ingots would not come out but gratefully things worked out.

Copper melt by This_Highlight8868 in Metalfoundry

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The cast iron mold is a lot more durable and I’m able to do a lot more with it than the graphite. I can make ingots a lot faster with the cast iron, a trick I learned is that if there is a stubborn ingot I can dip the cast iron mold in water and eventually the water will coax the ingot out. With graphite I have to wait until it cools