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Went to a rock & mineral show today. Those shows, like air shows are very cool to me.
Anyway, there was a vendor with cast brass and copper shapes. Kinda got me thinking that I might try my hand at casting something.
I found plans on-line of how to make your own smelting furnace. Cool, very cool.
I've been looking on-line for ingots and other stuff to melt down so I can cast stuff but a lot if not all of the sites say, "contact for quote".
Is it that the cost of these metals vary that much from day to day that they can't put the price they want on their page?
Anyone have any tips on making molds of basic geometric shapes to get me started so I can go on to more complex stuff? I'd really love to do a pyramid and a sphere.
Anyway, there was a vendor with cast brass and copper shapes. Kinda got me thinking that I might try my hand at casting something.
I found plans on-line of how to make your own smelting furnace. Cool, very cool.
I've been looking on-line for ingots and other stuff to melt down so I can cast stuff but a lot if not all of the sites say, "contact for quote".
Is it that the cost of these metals vary that much from day to day that they can't put the price they want on their page?
Anyone have any tips on making molds of basic geometric shapes to get me started so I can go on to more complex stuff? I'd really love to do a pyramid and a sphere.