I'm always amazed by how the sand picks up the imprint of the pattern! Even the imprint of your bowl and even wood grains in patterns! Enjoy your vids!!
And I was thinking I made the wrong choice by majoring in archeology when I really want to make video games! O_O Props to you for sticking through it though!
That turned out really great! I've truly enjoyed your casting videos. Comparing your skills from your first ever attempt to this one is cool to see how much you've learned. Inspiring stuff!
Someone gave this a down thumb??? Must be your ex-art teacher! : ) I liked the view of the inside of the cope? drag? when you parted them after the cast.
i'm a photographer by trade and the professors and teachers teached us how to judge a picture/art piece as objective as possible. its clearly possible to judge art and if you know how to do it, the results between 2 independant judges come really really close. we did it a lot, in the beginning it was really hard because its easy to overlook crucial criteria and details and also to find out what to actually look for. but in the end, it was totally worth learning it.
Great video as always. The clay bowls were really nice. You’ve gotten good fast. The aluminum bowl turned out nice as well. Seems more special since it was cast from your hand made bowl as well.
I am am artist, and i definitely vibe with you. Great artistic knowledge, funny real life, oops and i learn about my current interest if melting metal.
That is pretty F ing amazing! Love it! Very inspiring My dream is to make a bronze "cast iron skillet". I have been thinking about it sin I discovered They were found in the kitchens in Pompeii . They would be healthier to cook with.. I don't know why we don't see them in use today.. Anyway, that made me think ... You really could use some nice bronze bowls.. would look awesome. Your pattern bowl is perfect for it
Instead of pushing the bowl down into the drag and tilting the whole flask, why not build the drag up so the parting line is slightly higher than the cope/drag split?
I made something almost similar to it, but I used a wax model inside plaster and the result was good too. Here in south América se use that kind of bowl to eat toasted corn.
So far I have saved the black stuff in a separate bin, and I return the red stuff to the normal bin. Swdweeb has a video on reconstituting petrobond with 2 stroke oil, but I have yet to do it. I still have enough good stuff so I havent needing to take that step yet.
aluminium is food safe as long as you dont use acidic foods with it.. because aluminium builds up a passive oxide layer wich prevents your food to come in contact with the metal itself (also why it doesnt corrode and such) a prime example of it used in food related stuff is military eating equipment and milk cans, at least here in good old germany!
On the other end of the metal bowl spectrum, you could try spinning once the lathe is up and running. It's only slightly more dangerous than metal casting!
I think the aluminum came out great (for only one try) I don't think I could do better. Thteresting about your educational path, with mine I started out as a music major and then changed to general education and then went into computers, a field from which I retired from because I couldn't stand the idiots they kept wanting me to train. Great video Paul and I enjoyed your humor.
I think you should do more projects like that. Maybe an entire dinner set including knives and forks. Hahehehaehhae. Seriously though, I like that bowl although eating ice cream out of it sure would make your hands cold.
Nice work really nice finish there I notice you do a lot of Asian culture projects you should cast a Chinese Jian I’m currently in the process of finishing my own atm.
Paul's Garage the gentleman’s sword of ancient China, I used green sand but I’ll probably be investing in petrobond sooner than later, keep posting great casting videos it was you and big stack that just about taught me how to cast.
Some say that something is only art if it serves no useful purpose, which I guess would make a bowl be not art? Not sure I agree though, but then I'm no art expert. I think the clay bowl is prettier, but the aluminium one is much cooler. Can I get a Paul made clay bowl as a patreon bonus? :D
I've heard that same definition but I have never bought it. No useful purpose? What's a useful purpose? A painting can convey great meaning, is that not useful? If I take a painting and hang it over a window, it is now a window shade, is it no longer a piece of art because it has utilitarian value? What if I never use this bowl for anything? No "useful purpose", does that make it art? The things themselves dont change. Even the maker's intentions dont change. Only perfection and definition of the objects by others. I think that definition says more about the people who believe it than the piece of "art" itself. See why I didn't discuss this in the videos hahaha!! I suppose I could give pottery to patrons, the stuff keeps piling up around here...
Slowly but surely, only one part left to cast. I'm trying really hard not to redo the castings now that I'm getting better quality stuff, but if I do that I'll never get the thing done
try to recreate Orichalcum. I've used a different ratio and have tried to recreate it my self. Made a small knife. However I do not believe I got it correct. So ill give you the composition I made and see if you want to tinker with it. Fe 5%+ Ni 5%+Cu 55%+ Zn 35% + Pb 3% and a small amount of charcoal which was said to give it a carbon content making it stronger. But was unsure of the amount.
Another thing Orichalcum was used as a currency. So a small coin would be ideal. I just wanted to see the edge retention and it did perform very well and was extremely strong however this vs carbon steel. It was only a scratch away from being just as strong. That's why I believe I got it wrong, its supposed to be basically a "brass on steroids". Anyway thank you if you want to see the knife just go to my gmail. Jacobchesser99@gmail.com
Yes this would work with silver. In my very limited experience with big lumps of silver, it casts easiest of anything I've used. Usually silver bowls are formed from sheet, though. There is a coppersmithing channel I used to watch where the guy did silver too. It was cool
Is the reverse gravity feed necessary if you don’t have the extra thicker material at the “bottom” of the bowl? If I just kept it level on the table would it still work? You’re making me feel like more of a noob lol
Not necessary but it helps prevent turbulence in the flow which can mix oxides in and trap air, leading to air pockets. If you want some good details on casting practice check out the channel swdweeb, he's running a good series on it
Aluminum is definitely not food safe, especially if you're going to be eating anything that has any acid in it (like tomatos for example). It won't kill you just by touching it but bare aluminum can leach out into food and water with repeated contact. (hence why aluminum water bottles are made less commonly now, and when they are they have plastic or polymer liners like pop cans)
Oh that is such a wicked idea 💡 and it would make for an interesting video detailing the processes involved to camouflage it the same as the pottery bowl.
I went to uni with the intent of studying drama... didn't quite get in, had to write a letter as to why they should accept me over (I think) one other person. Then decided to study "the classics", Archaeology, Philosophy and Latin... guess which one I majored in? Yep... Philosophy... so I see your oops and raise you a non functional degree. Have read many more books on paleoarchaeology in the last few years and have decided I really should have focused on that instead. Ah well. This video also feeds into my earlier question about casting an R2 dome... it's probably about four times the size of your bowl (or more... I'm not sure of scale)... but that upside down position is what I was thinking and your bowl turned out great... so I am hopeful (though I really need to get things together so I can even build the forge... foundary... I forget which is which, you know what I mean).
too bad the aluminium isnt the best for eating out of , it would be the perfect bowl for youre 2 year old , she cant break it i think this cast went so good is because the cast piece doesnt has pockets in it that traps air i wonder if you can coat it in enamel think it could work as you can buy enameled pots and pans made from aluminium and it would make it food grade though i would make a second casting first just in case it doesnt work
Ive considered casting my own kitchen ware too, given how fast we go through the more breakable stuff. But considering I can only do aluminum and zinc, I decided against it. Aluminium and zinc dissolve very rapidly in anything acidic (which includes plenty of foods), and there is such a thing as too much zinc and aluminum for your body, and I would not really want to have to worry about it. It can even be a concern with copper base metals even though they do not dissolve in acid nearly as fast. Seems if you are not willing to risk melting your face with the cast iron (much harder to OD on iron), casting kitchenware isnt that attractive. There is always pewter I guess, but I dont like the look of that...
@@PaulsGarage Yeah, tin is supposed to be a food safe material; but aesthetically cast iron was much more what I had in mind than a wannabe victorian silverware look... maybe I should just try it, with some patterning on the outside who knows what look can be achieved...
@@markfryer9880 Let me balance out that one-liner with a huge rant: Considering I am a city boy that does his casting on his apartment balcony I havnt quite convinced myself yet casting iron is a sane idea... so pretty sure casting stainless isnt in the cards for me. If we are to take the black body radiation equation seriously, with its 4th power and all, those few extra hunderd degrees you need for casting stainless will make the radiant heat from molten iron feel like a pleasant glow in comparison. I think im happy to leave that to the pros. I once tried to figure out why it is that chrome is so bad for you but all the stainless in our kitchen is somehow fine with everybody; and I found little in the way of health data either way. Sure its not that soluble, but yes it is super toxic. No chrome epidemics have been detected as far as i know though; so I guess its fine... under normal use? But yes your stainless pans do leach... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284091/ The antimony in typical pewter is also only safe in the sense that under normal use, it probably wont find a way to get it out of the tin and into your body. Allegedly. Though if anyone has better luck finding any actual empirical data on the matter, let me know. You can also do tin-bismuth with a little bit of zinc for an antimony free pewter with good properties (only need 1% zinc so it could only dissolve from the surface, not the bulk). But that would melt away if you pour frying fat into it, so also not the ideal all-round kitchen material... Iron and glass make my the happiest, in the sense that they give me the illusion that I fully know what I am doing to my food or myself. Aluminium oxide barely reacts with acids though; and it seems from some googling that a 'properly' anodized aluminum vessel does not add a significant amount to your diet even when cooking acidic stuff for a long time. Alu anodizing is actually quite DIY friendly. So that may be the best DIY option overall? That is, if you can reconcile 'DIY' and 'properly'. TLDR; making your own cookware is hard. If anyone does find the silver bullet alluded to above, let me know.
One correction from the end of the video... A Lumina was actually a shitty sedan made by Chevrolet that was so bad in fact, then also made a "modern" minivan with the same name (at the same time). Ha ha ha. I kid - great vid.
Hahaha I had a friend with a lumina. He riveted a sheet over some rust holes, duct taped over the rivet holes, then spray painted over that. Good stuff.
@@PaulsGarage Depending on where in Wisconsin you lived, I think I may have seen your friend's masterpiece growing up. I lived just north of Milwaukee through undergraduate in 2004. Between you and Ben Heck, you make me somewhat proud to tell people I am from WI.
I have a schooling mistake that will probably top yours. I went to college and became a certified machinist. I've been driving a semi for 12yrs now. Never had a machinist job. Something went terribly wrong with my life choices
@@markfryer9880 I had a job at a machine shop when I was in college running a bandsaw, with the promise of being moved to a lathe after I finished college. Never got moved after over a year after college. My father-in-law was working at halliburton and convinced me to get a job there, they would pay for my CDL class and I could make some money. So I did. I quit during the recession and drove OTR for a year, then went back to driving oilfield hauling water/condensate. Body is shot now. 2 years ago, caught Lyme disease at work, that triggered rheumatoid arthritis. Beginning of last year, was in a wreck hauling condensate. Messed up my back and it took about 8 month for the rheumatoid to develop in my back after. 2 years of daily pain so far. Plus rheumatoid is a CDL killer. I'll probably be done driving within a year
Homie, stick that in the freezer and put your ice cream in it! Aluminum is a great heatsink. Silicon is totally safe to eat off of and you even have it in your body a little bit. The warning you get from people is only with breathing the powder.
@@PaulsGarage Do it man! I'm guessing it's better than clay. But maybe they don't use it industrial levels because they would have to replace all the time. I saw a knife maker use aluminum to harden a metal (Google aluminum quench plates). I love your channel man, keep up the good work. I hope you do the experiment.
Nice. Been planning on casting some pie tins in a different metal. Wife uses them for plates so Meat Juice and stuff doesn't run off nor do any of our eight cats 'fish' something off the plate. [[They don't do it to me because...JALAPENO'S! Art? Yeah, BTDT. Photographer for 30 years. I photo for ME. Like my work? COOL. Don't like my work? There's Millions of others Photographers out there so go like *Their* work. :)
I took a photography class once. I had some rough time developing my own photos on the schools ancient, thrashed machinery, but my old camera was sweet. It was an ME Super, all metal and stuff. That was fun
College was a bunch of mistakes for me. I did go into art, animation. That industry died a couple of quarters before I graduated. Thanks the the 2008 recession. Then decided to get MBA. That now is worthless degree. Employers see it as not proving you know business. Ya your not the only one who made mistakes.
Haha like all the millions of people who rode out the recession by going to law school. I know a bunch of people who did that, it's now a super-saturated market. 50 applicants per job opportunity, pay is in the gutter, etc...
@@PaulsGarage What makes it worse. My area here in the Seattle. They are hooked on personality as being the key factor in hiring. Introvert need not apply.
Dude - that is WAY cool! Great job! I can't say which I like better - I love the clay one, but the aluminum one is SOOO DANG COOL too!
I agree!
Try sandblasting the cut mark, it should make a nice texture difference.
The clay bowl looks awesome btw.
Furst impression, love the metal 🥣
Lovely work, both on the original bowl and the casting! Definitely going to try this myself once my furnace is set up and running.
I'm always amazed by how the sand picks up the imprint of the pattern! Even the imprint of your bowl and even wood grains in patterns! Enjoy your vids!!
Me too! It's pretty amazing the detail especially using petrobond.
Every time I wonder about casting something you end up showing me how! Beautiful cast 👍
Good job Paul. I enjoy your casting videos.
Wow, we were on such similar paths before a whole bunch of Oopses.... And look at us now!
Haha we both ended up on UA-cam!
And I was thinking I made the wrong choice by majoring in archeology when I really want to make video games! O_O
Props to you for sticking through it though!
The best way to make a mistake is to commit fully!
I have a bachelors in archaeology even worked in it for a few years I’m working on a bachelors in CS now it’s never too late to change career
I like both. I hope the clay video will show all the steps.
Amazing detail on the casting! Awsome job 👍
I freaking love the yellow subtext post processing thoughts, I guess you know what I mean great videos
Thanks! Yeah those are fun to add
You had me at "... and I will die alone and sad" 🤣
Haha it was a *bit* of an over dramatization. My wife isnt a fan of poor castings but I don't think she would leave me forever alone because of it
Great job 👍 Paul
Thanks!
Great bowl! I like them both! The bowl came out great!!! I think Bob approves the aluminum bowl too :)
He better! No mistakes after all...
Wow, that bowl turned out great!
Thanks! I'm really pleased with the surface finish, I think I'm finally getting the casting quality I want
That turned out really great! I've truly enjoyed your casting videos. Comparing your skills from your first ever attempt to this one is cool to see how much you've learned. Inspiring stuff!
Someone gave this a down thumb??? Must be your ex-art teacher! : ) I liked the view of the inside of the cope? drag? when you parted them after the cast.
What a great casting.
Thanks! I agree
Lovely casting mate 😃👍
Awesome! You might get away with skipping that feeder IMO. Both bowls look great.
Just around the feeder I can see a spot where it was thinking about shrinking... I might try it again without a feeder and see if it gets any worse
@@PaulsGarage Perhaps putting the feeder in the centre would make clean up area easier to blend in.
Thanks for the link to “Casting the Future”. I have the pattens ready. I am anxious to try out the L gates and spinner. Not this weekend, RAIN.
Paul,
Love your stuff you and sw got me into metal casting. Can’t wait until I’m on your level.
i'm a photographer by trade and the professors and teachers teached us how to judge a picture/art piece as objective as possible. its clearly possible to judge art and if you know how to do it, the results between 2 independant judges come really really close. we did it a lot, in the beginning it was really hard because its easy to overlook crucial criteria and details and also to find out what to actually look for. but in the end, it was totally worth learning it.
That casting turned out REALLY well...
Ps, looking forward to your bottle opener :D
yes the 2019openersopen is next week, Looking forward to see many people's awesome vids, hope I get mine done in time :-D
Bottle opener? Dont you mean bottle openerS?
Great video as always. The clay bowls were really nice. You’ve gotten good fast. The aluminum bowl turned out nice as well. Seems more special since it was cast from your hand made bowl as well.
Thanks! It's fun making pottery, I even got my wife interested. Shes still not interested in metal casting though :*(
I am am artist, and i definitely vibe with you. Great artistic knowledge, funny real life, oops and i learn about my current interest if melting metal.
glad that this one worked so well!
absolutely an art! brilliant work!
Thanks!
You're progress is awesome, this channel is so underrated
That is pretty F ing amazing!
Love it!
Very inspiring
My dream is to make a bronze "cast iron skillet". I have been thinking about it sin I discovered They were found in the kitchens in Pompeii . They would be healthier to cook with.. I don't know why we don't see them in use today..
Anyway, that made me think ... You really could use some nice bronze bowls.. would look awesome.
Your pattern bowl is perfect for it
"Where's the fire in that." Sounds like a good life motto.
Agreed! Fire good.
Fire great
@@PaulsGarage Not in Australia during a long hot summer. Bushfires are very bad news.
Instead of pushing the bowl down into the drag and tilting the whole flask, why not build the drag up so the parting line is slightly higher than the cope/drag split?
I think both bowls look great Dude! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Alum. shrinkage is 3/16" per foot BTW..
That sounds about right for the shrinkage I got. And thanks!
@@PaulsGarage There actually rulers scaled for the various metals. Mrpete222 showed off a whole set that someone gave him.
Nice work. You should anodize and color that aluminum bowl!
I'd really like to see videos of you making pottery and glazing it!
I just might do that!
I made something almost similar to it, but I used a wax model inside plaster and the result was good too. Here in south América se use that kind of bowl to eat toasted corn.
Lost wax is a great method too. Toasted corn? Is that like pop corn?
@@PaulsGarage some diferent, is the corn used to feed the chickens, but we use to toast the same corn for Human. Delicious.
Can you please show what you do with the Sand after casting? Can you reuse the blackened sand?
So far I have saved the black stuff in a separate bin, and I return the red stuff to the normal bin. Swdweeb has a video on reconstituting petrobond with 2 stroke oil, but I have yet to do it. I still have enough good stuff so I havent needing to take that step yet.
aluminium is food safe as long as you dont use acidic foods with it.. because aluminium builds up a passive oxide layer wich prevents your food to come in contact with the metal itself (also why it doesnt corrode and such) a prime example of it used in food related stuff is military eating equipment and milk cans, at least here in good old germany!
On the other end of the metal bowl spectrum, you could try spinning once the lathe is up and running. It's only slightly more dangerous than metal casting!
Only slightly? Sign me up!
I like both you did a great job sir!!!
Thanks!
wow your really good now! great job!
Thanks!
Well done
Thanks!
You're getting good at that.
Thanks!
Can you give us Green sand formulation.
I think the aluminum came out great (for only one try) I don't think I could do better. Thteresting about your educational path, with mine I started out as a music major and then changed to general education and then went into computers, a field from which I retired from because I couldn't stand the idiots they kept wanting me to train. Great video Paul and I enjoyed your humor.
Live is certainly an adventure, that's for sure.
I think you should do more projects like that. Maybe an entire dinner set including knives and forks. Hahehehaehhae. Seriously though, I like that bowl although eating ice cream out of it sure would make your hands cold.
Paul, Great vid, and I think both bowls are assume !
Thanks!
6:27 did you just reference Doctor who?
possibly but not intentionally. I've watched a lot of doctor who, a reference might have snuck in subconsciously
Paul's Garage lol alright! Just wondering. Long way home was from Peter Capaldi's reign as the doctor. When he finally returns to Gallifrey.
Could you do a lost foam cast to get the bowl shape you want?
It's possible if you could make a decent bowl in foam. I have yet to see a lost foam casting with surface finish quite this good though
I also write on my fridge but added a layer of clear packing tape and use dry erase markers.
10:20 I don't think I did actually, because it's not in the playlist. I think I see it in the recommendations though.
I am glad you chose this instead of becoming a nun.
It was a tough choice. Those nun outfits are pretty awesome.
@@PaulsGarage Yes because you can get away with anything even murder as no one ever suspects a nun. You might have to do away with the beard though.
Very cool!
Nice work really nice finish there I notice you do a lot of Asian culture projects you should cast a Chinese Jian I’m currently in the process of finishing my own atm.
I had to look up what that is, looks pretty cool!
Paul's Garage the gentleman’s sword of ancient China, I used green sand but I’ll probably be investing in petrobond sooner than later, keep posting great casting videos it was you and big stack that just about taught me how to cast.
Some say that something is only art if it serves no useful purpose, which I guess would make a bowl be not art? Not sure I agree though, but then I'm no art expert. I think the clay bowl is prettier, but the aluminium one is much cooler. Can I get a Paul made clay bowl as a patreon bonus? :D
I've heard that same definition but I have never bought it. No useful purpose? What's a useful purpose? A painting can convey great meaning, is that not useful? If I take a painting and hang it over a window, it is now a window shade, is it no longer a piece of art because it has utilitarian value? What if I never use this bowl for anything? No "useful purpose", does that make it art? The things themselves dont change. Even the maker's intentions dont change. Only perfection and definition of the objects by others. I think that definition says more about the people who believe it than the piece of "art" itself.
See why I didn't discuss this in the videos hahaha!!
I suppose I could give pottery to patrons, the stuff keeps piling up around here...
How is the gingery lathe coming? (I saw the castings in the background)
Slowly but surely, only one part left to cast. I'm trying really hard not to redo the castings now that I'm getting better quality stuff, but if I do that I'll never get the thing done
@@PaulsGarage Well you only need to recast items that require a superior quality for strength and or surface finish.
try to recreate Orichalcum. I've used a different ratio and have tried to recreate it my self. Made a small knife. However I do not believe I got it correct. So ill give you the composition I made and see if you want to tinker with it. Fe 5%+ Ni 5%+Cu 55%+ Zn 35% + Pb 3% and a small amount of charcoal which was said to give it a carbon content making it stronger. But was unsure of the amount.
That's interesting, I'll look into that
Another thing Orichalcum was used as a currency. So a small coin would be ideal. I just wanted to see the edge retention and it did perform very well and was extremely strong however this vs carbon steel. It was only a scratch away from being just as strong. That's why I believe I got it wrong, its supposed to be basically a "brass on steroids". Anyway thank you if you want to see the knife just go to my gmail. Jacobchesser99@gmail.com
Would this work with silver? I’ve spent about 6 hours learning ways not to make a silver bowl lol
Yes this would work with silver. In my very limited experience with big lumps of silver, it casts easiest of anything I've used. Usually silver bowls are formed from sheet, though. There is a coppersmithing channel I used to watch where the guy did silver too. It was cool
Paul's Garage awesome! I’m going to try this. Thanks so much for the reply.
Is the reverse gravity feed necessary if you don’t have the extra thicker material at the “bottom” of the bowl? If I just kept it level on the table would it still work? You’re making me feel like more of a noob lol
Not necessary but it helps prevent turbulence in the flow which can mix oxides in and trap air, leading to air pockets. If you want some good details on casting practice check out the channel swdweeb, he's running a good series on it
Paul's Garage thanks for the advice and will do. Really appreciate it.
Now you're ready to cast a bell
Aluminum is definitely not food safe, especially if you're going to be eating anything that has any acid in it (like tomatos for example). It won't kill you just by touching it but bare aluminum can leach out into food and water with repeated contact. (hence why aluminum water bottles are made less commonly now, and when they are they have plastic or polymer liners like pop cans)
it would look cool if you anodized the bowl.
Nice bowl. Now paint it to look like clay and surprise people with it when they pick it up. 😁
That would be interesting
Oh that is such a wicked idea 💡 and it would make for an interesting video detailing the processes involved to camouflage it the same as the pottery bowl.
Or Paul could make a second pottery bowl and paint it to look aluminium.
or use the aluminum bowl as a mold to form another ceramic bowl. Endless possibilities :)
I like the clay one better. Though both are very cool
I kinda do too, its more useable too
I went to uni with the intent of studying drama... didn't quite get in, had to write a letter as to why they should accept me over (I think) one other person. Then decided to study "the classics", Archaeology, Philosophy and Latin... guess which one I majored in?
Yep... Philosophy... so I see your oops and raise you a non functional degree.
Have read many more books on paleoarchaeology in the last few years and have decided I really should have focused on that instead. Ah well.
This video also feeds into my earlier question about casting an R2 dome... it's probably about four times the size of your bowl (or more... I'm not sure of scale)... but that upside down position is what I was thinking and your bowl turned out great... so I am hopeful (though I really need to get things together so I can even build the forge... foundary... I forget which is which, you know what I mean).
I hope your game of thrones and ice cream night goes well!
Thanks! Depends on how the show goes I guess, but the ice cream Is good regardless
Who arted in here? You did Paul. It was you.
He who smelt it dealt it
love to get that hammerhed :)
try making a brass bell
Bronze bell. Paul can make his own bell bronze alloy. Go Paul!
Reaaaaally nice looking! Great job! (For both bowls actually) This channel has changed, where's pitting and embedded sand and all :D
Pitted surfaces are great and all, but I prefer buttery smooth!
Pitted surfaces are great and all, but I prefer buttery smooth!
You remind me of the guy who voiced “mind of freeman”
New Ginger Video Friday! Yaaaaay!!
No better way to start a weekend!
Ya know what would go great with the aluminium bowl? An aluminum cup made the same/similar way. But then again that might be to much of a challenge. 🙂
too bad the aluminium isnt the best for eating out of , it would be the perfect bowl for youre 2 year old , she cant break it
i think this cast went so good is because the cast piece doesnt has pockets in it that traps air
i wonder if you can coat it in enamel
think it could work as you can buy enameled pots and pans made from aluminium and it would make it food grade
though i would make a second casting first just in case it doesnt work
Nice job but I don't think you should eat from it seems I heard it's bad for you
Ive considered casting my own kitchen ware too, given how fast we go through the more breakable stuff. But considering I can only do aluminum and zinc, I decided against it. Aluminium and zinc dissolve very rapidly in anything acidic (which includes plenty of foods), and there is such a thing as too much zinc and aluminum for your body, and I would not really want to have to worry about it. It can even be a concern with copper base metals even though they do not dissolve in acid nearly as fast. Seems if you are not willing to risk melting your face with the cast iron (much harder to OD on iron), casting kitchenware isnt that attractive. There is always pewter I guess, but I dont like the look of that...
Old copper cooking vessels were often lined in tin, that might be worth trying. Tin has a super low melting point too
@@PaulsGarage Yeah, tin is supposed to be a food safe material; but aesthetically cast iron was much more what I had in mind than a wannabe victorian silverware look... maybe I should just try it, with some patterning on the outside who knows what look can be achieved...
Or you could just get ill from the non stick surface coatings.
Stainless steel is the way to go.
@@markfryer9880 Let me balance out that one-liner with a huge rant:
Considering I am a city boy that does his casting on his apartment balcony I havnt quite convinced myself yet casting iron is a sane idea... so pretty sure casting stainless isnt in the cards for me. If we are to take the black body radiation equation seriously, with its 4th power and all, those few extra hunderd degrees you need for casting stainless will make the radiant heat from molten iron feel like a pleasant glow in comparison. I think im happy to leave that to the pros.
I once tried to figure out why it is that chrome is so bad for you but all the stainless in our kitchen is somehow fine with everybody; and I found little in the way of health data either way. Sure its not that soluble, but yes it is super toxic. No chrome epidemics have been detected as far as i know though; so I guess its fine... under normal use? But yes your stainless pans do leach... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284091/
The antimony in typical pewter is also only safe in the sense that under normal use, it probably wont find a way to get it out of the tin and into your body. Allegedly. Though if anyone has better luck finding any actual empirical data on the matter, let me know.
You can also do tin-bismuth with a little bit of zinc for an antimony free pewter with good properties (only need 1% zinc so it could only dissolve from the surface, not the bulk). But that would melt away if you pour frying fat into it, so also not the ideal all-round kitchen material...
Iron and glass make my the happiest, in the sense that they give me the illusion that I fully know what I am doing to my food or myself.
Aluminium oxide barely reacts with acids though; and it seems from some googling that a 'properly' anodized aluminum vessel does not add a significant amount to your diet even when cooking acidic stuff for a long time. Alu anodizing is actually quite DIY friendly. So that may be the best DIY option overall? That is, if you can reconcile 'DIY' and 'properly'.
TLDR; making your own cookware is hard. If anyone does find the silver bullet alluded to above, let me know.
You should stop airing about your dirty laundry! Lol!
Clay for oatmeal and aluminium for keys.
Aluminum is used for cooking and should be safe to eat out of but problems to arise if you get to much aluminum in your diet.
One correction from the end of the video... A Lumina was actually a shitty sedan made by Chevrolet that was so bad in fact, then also made a "modern" minivan with the same name (at the same time). Ha ha ha. I kid - great vid.
Hahaha I had a friend with a lumina. He riveted a sheet over some rust holes, duct taped over the rivet holes, then spray painted over that. Good stuff.
@@PaulsGarage Depending on where in Wisconsin you lived, I think I may have seen your friend's masterpiece growing up. I lived just north of Milwaukee through undergraduate in 2004. Between you and Ben Heck, you make me somewhat proud to tell people I am from WI.
I have a schooling mistake that will probably top yours. I went to college and became a certified machinist. I've been driving a semi for 12yrs now. Never had a machinist job. Something went terribly wrong with my life choices
Haha at least that's a practical skill?
How did that happen if you don't mind us asking?
@@markfryer9880 I had a job at a machine shop when I was in college running a bandsaw, with the promise of being moved to a lathe after I finished college. Never got moved after over a year after college. My father-in-law was working at halliburton and convinced me to get a job there, they would pay for my CDL class and I could make some money. So I did. I quit during the recession and drove OTR for a year, then went back to driving oilfield hauling water/condensate. Body is shot now. 2 years ago, caught Lyme disease at work, that triggered rheumatoid arthritis. Beginning of last year, was in a wreck hauling condensate. Messed up my back and it took about 8 month for the rheumatoid to develop in my back after. 2 years of daily pain so far. Plus rheumatoid is a CDL killer. I'll probably be done driving within a year
@@PaulsGarage Maybe as a hobby machinist. Everything is going to cnc. Rheumatoid arthritis screwed me over on being able to run production lathe
Wife wants to know we’re to fine bowls for sell.
I dont currently have a place to sell pottery, maybe in the future
Barbie the Welder uses Etsy.
Anthropology is fascinating, but not a hot career path choice
it's almost the worst career path lol
Homie, stick that in the freezer and put your ice cream in it! Aluminum is a great heatsink. Silicon is totally safe to eat off of and you even have it in your body a little bit. The warning you get from people is only with breathing the powder.
Is it a better heat sink than clay? That would be a good experiment
@@PaulsGarage Do it man! I'm guessing it's better than clay. But maybe they don't use it industrial levels because they would have to replace all the time. I saw a knife maker use aluminum to harden a metal (Google aluminum quench plates). I love your channel man, keep up the good work. I hope you do the experiment.
Thank you for making videos. I enjoy them. That sounds weird. I bet you are weird and uncomfortable to meet but awesome
Thank you for watching! Glad you like them
Porosity! Chug
Down the hatch!
Nice. Been planning on casting some pie tins in a different metal. Wife uses them for plates so Meat Juice and stuff doesn't run off nor do any of our eight cats 'fish' something off the plate. [[They don't do it to me because...JALAPENO'S! Art? Yeah, BTDT. Photographer for 30 years. I photo for ME. Like my work? COOL. Don't like my work? There's Millions of others Photographers out there so go like *Their* work. :)
I took a photography class once. I had some rough time developing my own photos on the schools ancient, thrashed machinery, but my old camera was sweet. It was an ME Super, all metal and stuff. That was fun
I passed out in the photo lab at school. They put the extraction fan in several weeks later.
Remember, "Art" is a window washer
Does he charge a reasonable price?
@@PaulsGarage www.uwalumni.com/askabe/art-the-window-washer/
almost certainly foodsafe
The bowl itself doesnt taste too bad, I suppose
College was a bunch of mistakes for me. I did go into art, animation. That industry died a couple of quarters before I graduated. Thanks the the 2008 recession. Then decided to get MBA. That now is worthless degree. Employers see it as not proving you know business. Ya your not the only one who made mistakes.
Haha like all the millions of people who rode out the recession by going to law school. I know a bunch of people who did that, it's now a super-saturated market. 50 applicants per job opportunity, pay is in the gutter, etc...
@@PaulsGarage What makes it worse. My area here in the Seattle. They are hooked on personality as being the key factor in hiring. Introvert need not apply.
I'd be homeless then.
@@PaulsGarage We have a lot of that. Sadly.
the first comment is from Brazil!
Can confirm first
Silicon? Hazardous? Better not drink from a glass then...
Eat out of it, no high acid foods, don't cook with it.
Good idea, i dont think it would work great for cooking anyway
please stop talking