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woodpecker effigy copper celt or warclub
Zuma:
Way cool swampy. 8) You really get into it. Thanks for sharing
the spoils of your hard work and research.
Have you been here? Cool rest stop on I55
Jodocus:
great work and pics, thanks alot for showing. The result is really good.
Stoker:
--- Quote from: swamp monkey on March 25, 2016, 07:11:25 pm ---Thanks Stoker. We used a furnace meant to melt lower melting point metals like Aluminum. The metal shop teacher has the students cast aluminum items like a C clamp and then tool it. Copper melts just under 2,000 degrees F. An average campfire by comparison is roughly 1,500 degrees.
My hat goes off to Mr. Stover and the Jackson High School for letting me work with them. I may post some pics of the pouring a little later.
--- End quote ---
Very cool to work with skilled people.. A lot to learn.. My father in law used to sand cast aluminuim and has a furnace very simialer to Mr. Stover's only home made.. I tryed to talk to him about it but the dementia makes it almost impossible. It's great that this art form is pasted on to the young. To many times knowledge goes away.. Awesome prodject
Thanks Leroy
Patches:
Cool! I could not see the photo very well on my phone. It looks great. I can see how you are thinking that is more of a war club. that thin blade would definitely create an opening in a cranium. Even puncture heart and lung with that length. Beautiful work!
Neal
swamp monkey:
Thanks fellas. I will try little wood working just to see how it does. However, I won't be trying it out as a war club unless mythbusters comes back with a Mississippian mound builders special episode. ;)
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