Thread: Casting & Stabilising Demo

Thank you to Neil, John and Tony for the presentation and demonstration yesterday. It was a great day amongst wonderful people. Neil's presentation was very professional with a thousand little tips that you will see on the DVD. There was so much knowledge to take in that I am going to have to sit and watch the DVD just to pick up on what I couldn't take in.

I will try and get the DVD done this week. It will take a while as I have a bit of edting to do to get it into subject order. I am happy to send anyone a copy who wants one but don't forget to PM me with your name and address and I will put you on the list.
I have no idea how to upload anything onto UTube but I am sure we have an IT expert somewhere out there who can do it after Neil picks out the bits and pieces that he wants posted. The full DVD will be well over an hour, probably 2.

Thanks also to Neil and John for fixing my pressure pot.

Sorry I couldn't stay for dinner but I had to get back to Brisbane before it got too late.

Greg

I will arrange uploading to both U-Tube and here when I get the video

Thanks for a great day yesterday guys, really worth the effort in getting there and I learned heaps. Few more areas of the casting I need to try now !! very addictive it is !! Also need to try casting some silicone molds thx John and make a clear vacuum stabilising pot.
Greg's cakes were delicious and Neil's Coffee was pretty damn good too

Cheers Guys for a fantastic and very informative day.

PS. Greg I will send on some photos of the finished blanks cast yesterday when I pop them out of the molds.

Thanks.

Tony.

Ok everything is out of the molds/pots. To start off with here are all the mixing cups for all the different colours




Then there are the products, clockwise from top left - silicon molds made by John, 10" long copper braid blank, sheoak seed pod slab with watch part blank below, cholla cactus full blanks in yellow (and some copper as I ran short), pepper grinder blank (I'll have to turn it to see the timber ), flouro green short blanks (pine cone/banksia/cholla - blanks were longer than mold), small flouro green cedar pod slab, dead finish bark blanks (cast in ancient copper and stabilised), flouro orange cedar pod blanks (cast and stabilised).




The sheoak seed pod slab cut into blanks, and the flouro green cedar seed pod slab cut into blanks (yes they are that bright )




Now to turn a few just to show you, back soon

Tony will have to post photos of the resin multi colour blanks.

How refreshing and informative, thanks to all of you, and for your reports , pictures and Videos to come, it is in this manner that we all learn and go to the next level, Amos

Just did a quick turn and CA finish of 4 blanks. The flouro orange cedar pod, this was done with glitter and unfortunately a white tube, knew I should have used the orange nail polish. The others are the Dead Finish Bark, flouro green pearlex cedar seed pods (my new favourite ), sheoak seed pod in copper pearlex.

Certainly letting mother nature come to the fore with these art pieces ,if that doesn't inspire some imaginative new casting endeavours then I don't know what will Beautiful as always Neil, I ran out of time and got too cold in my shed to finish anything from the casting session ,but tomorrow hehe, cheers ~ John ,
And Greg got your pot lid here,tested ok so pm for address and phone

Wow !!

Those blanks turned out looking absolutely fantastic Neil. Makes mine look pretty ordinary. The blanks that I cast should look nice once turned though, unfortunately no time at the momment but I will be sure to let you all see them once they are.

They all came out really well. The turned blanks look phenomenal. I am waiting to see the colours really come out in Tony's blanks.

The video is half done. Loading it to the computer had to be in real time so that slowed it down a bit - 190 minutes. Don't know how many games of solitaire I got through waiting for that. It's cutting back well with dead time being removed to relieve boredom for viewers and to try and crunch it all onto 1 DVD. All the questions, answers and tips remain.

Looking forward to seeing all the different things turned. I will probably glue up a flouro green Banksia and Cholla cactus tomorrow night maybe. I've laso been thinking of small portions of flouro green/yellow/orange pearlex in a solid black medium slab There is a pen on the IAP site at the moment with just faint gold streaks in black that looks really good to me that gave me the idea to try.

Or maybe some silver or gold leaf if you can embed without mixing and breaking it too small hehe, cheers ~ John

I turned up one of the banksia and one of the cholla today, both in flouro green.




I also did my own resin slab cast with the flouros. It turned out better than I expected, so couldn't resist turning one of the blanks up, just a black chrome Streamline. Just a quick photo on the kitchen bench, sorry about the glare.




I did take a video of the process, so hopefully i can work out how to edit it then i can post it too later.

Nice one Neil,
Looks like a picture from the Hubble telescope, some strange named nebula (Neilis Uranus)....

I also cast 2 small banksia's yesterday in yellow transparent.
I'll let it have another day to cure before turning him up.

The ones I did with clear in the mould are still soft and gooey, Must have got mix wrong, didn't think so as I used digital scales and used 1.5% catalyst.
It'll go off in a week or three. And must have been on slight angle in the pressure pot as its not level, Think I can save it.

Adding to the results from sundays session at Neils, a pine cone in lime green glitter flouro ,the pics don't show the glitter but its the same as Neils green above Try and do the green nut one tomorrow Cheers ~ John