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woodpecker effigy copper celt or warclub
swamp monkey:
Here are some pix form the day of the casting. We let it cool over night before even trying to touch it.
swamp monkey:
we put talc powder on the molds so they would be easy to separate from the sand and keep its shape. The talc seems to react with the copper to give the surface that gray color. File it and it looks coppery.
chamookman:
Way cool ! Bob
YosemiteBen:
That is so way cool! Wish I had resources around here to do that...! oh yeah, and time!
swamp monkey:
thanks fellas. I owe a lot to Jackson High School's metal shop teacher Mr. Stover. His open, willing nature made this possible.
One of the benefits of making a mold of each blade is I had the model to work off of when crafting the celt handles. This allowed the handle to be nearly done before I even cast the metal version. Below is a pic of two handles in progress with the model inserted for fit check.
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