Southern Illinois Iron | Iron Pour Vlog | SIU Carbondale
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2024
- In this video I once again attend an Iron Pour in Carbondale at the Southern Illinois University.
Huge thanks to Faculty, Staff and Students for their hospitality and for hosting this event every fall!
It was a pleasure to attend and I made cast iron waffles!!
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Video Editor: Laura Mullen Vermilye
Music Credit: Epidemic Sound
If you're new here welcome! My name is Laura Mullen Vermilye and I am an iron casting metal artist. Being a cast iron artist is an interesting - and at times tough journey, but the rewards far exceed all challenges. While working with cast iron to create my art I am exposed to an amazing community of artists who are as dedicated and passionate as I am. The cast iron art culture is a major influence in my life and on my work and I want to share this artistic adventure with anyone who is interested in seeing hard working people make amazing art with a hot and dangerous material. To do this, I make vlog style videos on this channel that chronicle the artwork that I am currently making and my journeys in Metalsmithing and iron casting. In between casting and metal art videos you may also see some behind the scenes footage of me roaming around the heart of the Midwest and the Ozarks. Thank you to all you folks that are as interested in my small metal project as you are in my cast iron art! Thanks for tunin' in, and as always - I love you. - Навчання та стиль
The pouring was immersive. A choreographed dance with molten iron.
You truly got to see it from my point of view 🤩
A trick/ technique I do with some sand castings is I poke a few 1/8" vents using a TIG welding rod in the sand before the resin bonded sand hardens. I noticed the waffle casting had some trapped air spots. The 1/8th inch vents are easily chased off.
Great idea! I only put one vent at the very top and I noticed that on one of the iron waffles there is a hollow spot where I cut off the vent. I suspect that the vent was not big enough to help the casting account for shrinking when it was cooling. You’re right, more vents will help there be more metal areas for the iron to pull from! It’s comments like this that really make me feel like posting online is worthwhile!☺️🔥
I graduated from SIU in 1989 with Tom Walsh. We did iron pours back then. It's nice to see the foundry again. My studio was in there. The sculpture foundry has changed quite a bit. We had a large brick car kiln and noticed that's gone.
Wow!! Tom Walsh is a legend to me! And you are too, now that I know you studied with him! Yeah, the casting area is much smaller than it once was and there is not as much focus on it, but it’s still in the curriculum and they have a great ceramic shell area and two huge burn-out kilns!
I did my MFA graduate degree with Walsh. I don't know if you remember but I did my under grad and the University of Iowa with the grandfather of cast iron sculpture, Julius Schmidt. Both great programs. I enjoy your content. Keep up the good work! @@CastIronGypsy
Using the concrete floor and masonry blocks for your sand molds is genius!
I saw other people doing it at an Iron Conference and immediately bought 20 blocks when I got home! It was only $40 and I use them so much!
Always enjoy the pours, making the molds was interesting. At the foundry where I worked in the 70's there was always a section that was done that way. There were done on the same machines that made the shell cores
Wow that’s fascinating! I always love when you write about your foundry experiences!🔥🔥❤️
I've seen waffle irons before, but never iron waffles...😂 Awesome!
I’m excited to make more! Maybe I should try to cook a waffle in between two of my iron waffles?!🧇
@@CastIronGypsy it seems like the logical thing to do...
I think this might be one of your best videos yet. Great perspective on the pour and good pacing.
Wow, thanks for the comment Mark! If I’m getting better at this it’s because you and other folks like you are watching and keeping me encouraged, so THANK YOU!😊
Looked like a great time. Thanks.Kimber
It was so much fun, SIU Carbondale is possibly my favorite place to pour iron 🎉❤
Thanks for watching and writing 😊
Great video Laura. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks James, thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it!☺️
Awesome
Thanks!
Those waffles would make nice trivets for a wood cook stove.
Heck yeah!🔥😆
Good
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So you heat them up and pour batter on them and get a waffle machine? ☺
That looked like so much fun. The final results worked out great 2x👍
I’ll have to try making waffles with the cast iron waffles now!!
Now I want waffles. But those would definitely break your teeth!
Woof you are right!!
Where du ell is dis place? I wanna go!
This was in St Louis, Missouri at Webster University, but they happen all over the world!
So that's why those panels were backwards! I went through the whole vid thinking "Those are backwards! Why are those backwards?"
Relax, dude. They know they bidness!
(And I'm skipping the obvious "My waffles come out like that.")
Hahaha- it’s because they were printing shirts with them😝, it took me a second to realize what ‘panels’ you were talking about!😊
Looks like the new Waffle House waffles. I prefer the older tighter honeycomb pattern because it makes a crispier more ice cream cone type waffle.
Awesome! I worked at a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream location in Georgia to get through graduate school and we would make those kinds for the cones. Maybe I should try to cast an iron waffle cone!?!
Ice cream probably wouldn’t last long in it… unless it was chilled!