I set myself up using my camping cooker, and the casting ladle that Katje kindly gave me. This process works quite well, and with just one person, and the ladle resting on the burner it’s quite easy to get into a rhythm turning out coin blank after coin blank. The mould I made out of the piece of soapstone Katje lent me allows hanging tag so the blanks could also be used as blank medallions. This afternoon I hope to find my Drakkar Die set and try stamping a coin or two.
Anyway… Time to run… Got arrows to Fletch, and still have to get ready for Harvest feast, as well as hang washing out, find Dies set and Ummm Oh yeah… Eat lunch…
Very impressive! That looks like it would be quite fun. Now, let me see….
-Camper burner: check
All my plans for home-counterfeiting are dashed!
-Breadboard: check
-File: check
-Metal mallet: check (although they got us to use the wooden woolly ones in Silversmithing)
-Pliers: check
-Leather gloves: check
-Pewter: will silver (for casting) do? ‘Tis all I have
-Snippy snipper things: check
-Soapstone: I could improvise.
-Ladle: mmmm. no ladle.
I knew there was a better use for a kitchen than cooking. Will not be thinking twice when I next grout mosaics, do lampworking or cut out my garb on the floor in there.
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Nope, silver burns too high.
What’s the ladle made from?
Well, you can get the sopastone from lens mills in canada. Shipping is a bitch though, but you can’t get the kind you need here in oz.
asmetals.com.au for the pewter.
It’s a blayney invention, it’s a fence post cap de iodized and welded to a bit of steel.
But, lots of people use like turkish coffee pots and the like!
Ah yes, ta. That (aemetal) website’s come up a few times today in relation to casting … and for jewellery.
Turkish coffee pot. Got it.
Hee, ae/as, you understood me! YAY!
Thought you were going to bed….