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Home Lost Wax Casting On The Cheap: Step One, Casting Bench
I really want to be able to do some lost wax casting at home. I have wanted this for years, but the sticking point has always been cost. I could go out and buy brand new casting equipment, and have...
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Home Lost Wax Casting On The Cheap: Step Two, Wax Tools
You want to carve wax, you need wax tools. There are some rather dashing and lovely tools available on the internet, problem is they all cost money, money I am trying to avoid spending. A quick...
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Home Lost Wax Casting On The Cheap: Step Three, Alcohol Lamp For Wax Carving
Another really handy thing to have is a source of heat for wax carving, adding sprues, and other waxy business. This can be as simple as a candle, but I wanted something a little more old school, but...
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Home Lost Wax Casting On The Cheap: Step Four, Kiln Vent Hood
In my ongoing quest to build my own DIY home lost wax casting set up and not burn my house down, or asphyxiate myself I figured I would need a kiln vent. Kiln vents come in two kinds, top vents, and...
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Home Lost Wax Casting On The Cheap: Step Five, Vacuum Plate
There are two kinds of casting people normally do at home in regards to lost wax. They either use a centrifuge, or a vacuum plate. In a centrifugal setup the hot metal is poured into a special...
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Home Lost Wax Casting On The Cheap: Step Six, The Kiln
Sooner or later I had to tackle the big problem in home casting…the Kiln. I don’t know why I was so afraid of this step, perhaps it had something to do with the idea of building a box that can easily...
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DIY Branding Iron
A friend in the bakery business wanted to be able to brand her bread to give it a little more flair. So I whipped up this quick and dirty bread brand. Cut out the T from 16 gauge brass, it was the...
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Thing A Week 13: Silicone Tea Cup Covers
My girlfriend drinks a lot of tea…like she usually has multiple tea cups going at the same time. And she has these little things she puts on the tops of the cups to help each tea bag brew up nicely....
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Home Made DIY “W” Cookie Press For Short Bread Cookies
This job had to be a bit of a rush job, but I think its going to work great. Its a short bread cookie press, you roll out the cookie dough, press this into it then bake. Get the “W” into a vector file....
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