This is definitely an important trade to learn. Who cares about else, but to learn farming, building, hunting and creating survival tools to live a loving peaceful life with your loved ones. Thank you so much for sharing and thank God for blessing us with a wonderful man to teach us all a valuable trade.
Laura, Found you because of Adam Booth. I enjoyed this video. Congratulations on the wedding. I have been happily working on mine since 1976. My youngest daughter just married 5/23, making us empty nesters. I fill up my time being grandfather to 32, playing in my shop and church labor. I watch too much instructional UA-cam. Because of Abom79, I now have added Cast Iron Gypsy to my watch list. We live not very far from you. I wish you all well.
You can coat cast iron with pine tar, and heat it up for a really nice dark finish. Then you can apply boiled linseed oil for a bit of shine, and rust prevention. My favorite UA-cam blacksmith did this on some of his work, and it looked super.
Boiled linseed oil? With reactive metals for accelerating the curing process? I think that's a terrible idea. Also, how can you be sure brake rotors don't have lead in them?
I may sound stupid, but it never occured to me that you could have used an actual skillet as the pattern, it's really clever as it already has pattern draft into it. Making it from scratch could be fun, but would be incredibly time consuming. Thanks for sharing and take care!!
Hi, new subscriber, Abom79 sent me. I wanted to thank you for helping Clark and the rest of the folks at the event, it was plain to see that you were indispensable there, and made things so much easier with the pours. Looking forward to checking out the rest of your content, and hope you have a great weekend!
Clark and Windy Hill are fabulous people and places. I think he actually loves teaching others because, in my opinion, the fount of all knowledge for casting. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding and best wishes for a fabulous future together.
I watch Adam all the time but did not see his mention of you. I am shut in so watch a lot of youtube. I was looking for new ones and saw yours and tried it Great program!!!! Am looking forward to seeing all of yours. Adam is a great guy and always entertaining .You are in good hands with him . Good luck and thanks
just got my Rucker straight edge from windy hill today. The cast iron looks to be very high quality. not that I'm an expert but it does have a good consistency to it ...... the casting came out really great too
So pleased the pour wasn't a disaster, I saw the earlier footage with all the flames and didn't know if it was a success. Now I do, and it was. Good trick with the linseed oil finish
Nice pour! and nice to know that there are people like you, Rob and Clarke,Jose and fellows in this world. For whatever reason, watching cast iron being poured makes me want to be a better human being.
It's wonderful to find your channel and Clarke's as well via Adam's channel... I've found all this neat stuff to look at in retirement... Now I just need to be young again so I can play too! ;)
Awesome video, always wanted to learn how to cast and I've worked in a steel mill for 18 years😅...he's so lucky, you have a great personality and pretty too...
I watch the difference in your sand casting and these dudes I watch in India. Making a mold takes them about 6 minutes, all the while they are in tee-shirts and flip flops, one dude is melting the steel sitting about a foot away from the smelter pecking on his phone while non chalantly stuffing broken cast iron in the opening. The guys make 5 or 6 molds and the steel is ready and they pour it in tee shirts and flip flops. I like the video from you and everyone, I lived in USA 50 years and moved over seas luckily I was pre acclimated to the very different ideas about safety and job just get er done. Great video thanks for the time needed to make,edit and post it!
This is very impressive skill of craftsmanship from a by gone era. Good to see that there are people around who value these skills, perfect them over a lifetime, and pass them on to the younger generation. I wonder if the brake rotor steel is suitable for use cooking. Has anyone checked if this material produces toxic emissions in a high heat environments such as stove top, very high heat ovens, BBQ grills, etc. Does it meet the current standards for cooking utensils?
You ask about cooking temperatures! Think for a moment about what you just watched. That cast iron was approximately 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit when it was poured into the mold or over 7 times a typical frying temperature of 350 degrees. Any possible contaminants are long gone. The worst danger from cast iron comes from washing it with dish soap which can penetrate the pores and mix with oils creating a perfect environment for bacterial growth. That is easily cured by NEVER using any kind of soap on your good cast iron cookware. I'm sure that there are several good UA-cam videos on the care and feeding of your cast iron cookware.
I watched Adam's video of this. You footage is very cool. I am starting to save brake rotors for melting. Wish you the best on the upcoming wedding. Stay safe during the pours.
I love how in some of the clips, you can see the hot crucible giving off a purple light. I wonder if it's so hot that some of the light it's giving off is in the ultraviolet range? Many cameras are able to pick up ultraviolet light, including phone cameras!
Hey, I tried this! Made a cast aluminum birthday card skillet for my wife. I'm still working up my nerve to try cast iron someday, but meanwhile that's what black spraypaint is for... Thanks for the idea! It came out nice, she likes it, but the 3 A's I used kicked my butt. Stupid little triangles...
Interesting to watch small batch or single pours like this, I work in a foundry where we will pour a few hundred of things like brake rotors or caliper brackets all at once.
Very nice job! I'm amazed that your letters stayed on the pan you used with only Elmer's glue. I believe I herd you say something in the video about adding additional weights. I believe you are correct, that more weights would definitely help with metal running out of your molds. You may also want to set the mold between two plates and bolt it together. I must say.. Rob is a lucky fella!
Hey neat bit of work on the pan! I don't know if you're going to use it or not but I have a feeling breakfast would taste particularly good made in it! (Bonus points for the cat-meo too!)
Dear Laura , That was a great idea to use the sign board letters , Congratulation on your up coming wedding (are you old enough to get married ??) , And I bought one of those hand held vises and jig vises, after seeing you use them , I wish i knew they existed about 30 years ago , Thank you for tacking the time to make this video Pete M
lol maybe. This is my first time on this channel so I'm just talki...typing out my ass but hopefully they've been dating and/or engaged for a couple of years or so. It's extremely hard to hide the crazy longer than that. haaa. verbal vandalism is fun.
I don't know if I'll ever cast iron or steel b/c of the temps but would love to do so. I was online minding my own business when a link to a video came up. That was Abom's Windy Hill experience. I had to watch. Anyway, you mentioned my little hometown of Granite City, IL. That is why I'm here now. Had you not mentioned Granite City, I would not have came to your page even if you are good looking. :) Anyway, I have been to two of your videos. I like what I've seen so far. I'd like to come to a workshop next time you are here for an event.
That's a really cool one-of-a-kind skillet. Really nice how it came out. Been looking up info on casting. Thinking to make things out of bronze. Interesting to see how to do it.
I was laughing because my lady would have taken that and put it on the stove and used it to get that beautiful black. Nicely done. You make me want to get back to doing some more casting. I use petrobond and aluminum, attempting to make simple machines such as dividing heads and such. It is such a rush to pour molten metal and come back hours later to find what surprises are in that sand.
Wow, you made a super interesting and professional video of this project Laura. Love your voice over! Nice to see you already created casted memories of your future wedding, I wish you every luck and happiness towards this special day.
Here by ways of a prompt from Adam. I retired years ago but used to work for a foundry that produced castings weighing several tons (parts for a steam turbine generator). We used to make things for home in our dinner hour. Have fun Laura, but be careful.
Great job, I'm impressed! Very cool looking skillet with such a good idea of putting your wedding date on! I've gotta say though, please consider not using gloves when using the angle grinder. If the material is caught up in the spinning disc, it's got a high chance of pulling your finger with it, especially using it with no guard. Maybe hold it a bit further back with gloves, as I know the sparks can hurt! We were always shouted at while at the training school whenever we used gloves on any rotating machinery, bench grinder, angle grinder, drill press, etc. We never thought of it until it was pointed out, and we were showed the gruesome after images of when it went wrong.
Gloves and angle grinder is not a huge deal, leather gloves and abrasive disks don't catch very easily. Put something in an old glove other than your hand and try it - it'll just bounce off and maybe grind a hole through it - not the violent catch you'd get with a metal lathe or even a drill, because there's no real teeth to a disk. Taking the guard off though is a good way to lose fingers - I've seen that happen and had to put co-worker fingers on ice and drive him to the hospital because he was "inconvenienced" by the guard. Don't be like stumpy. put the damn guard back on.
Perfect! Excellent combination of voice over explanation of what you are doing, background music that doesn't get in the way, content, and the dialog is all you! You love us? We love you too! Oh, suggestion: let Bones get a little screen time too, and don't forget the screen creds for him! See you at the next pour.
I'm envious of you. I have always wanted make a casting. I've been a machinist since the mid 70s. I worked for 2 companies that had their own foundries. I never got the chance to do that. Good job! If you can't stand the heat, get out of the foundry. Next time, can you do an Anvil?
Nice! There is a guy in england who uses brake disks for cast iron skillets. I could totally see the one hanging on the wall, but I think it would also be nice to have one or two to use camping or backyard bbq. Also, since you are married now, your gypsy days are over, time to change your handle.
I was wondering how you was going to make the skillet, but you did and it looks great and I have some skillets which I use for cooking and can't do without them due to where I live here in Arkansas and the weather conditions we have leaving us without electricity during each year. I gave up on non stick cookware since I had to replace them every two years or less and have just a steel wok and using my cast iron skillets to cook in.
The dates may not be set in stone, but it's definitely cast in iron.
It's poetry😌😌
This is definitely an important trade to learn. Who cares about else, but to learn farming, building, hunting and creating survival tools to live a loving peaceful life with your loved ones.
Thank you so much for sharing and thank God for blessing us with a wonderful man to teach us all a valuable trade.
Laura,
Found you because of Adam Booth. I enjoyed this video. Congratulations on the wedding. I have been happily working on mine since 1976. My youngest daughter just married 5/23, making us empty nesters. I fill up my time being grandfather to 32, playing in my shop and church labor. I watch too much instructional UA-cam. Because of Abom79, I now have added Cast Iron Gypsy to my watch list. We live not very far from you. I wish you all well.
You can coat cast iron with pine tar, and heat it up for a really nice dark finish. Then you can apply boiled linseed oil for a bit of shine, and rust prevention. My favorite UA-cam blacksmith did this on some of his work, and it looked super.
Boiled linseed oil? With reactive metals for accelerating the curing process? I think that's a terrible idea. Also, how can you be sure brake rotors don't have lead in them?
Can we get name drop for that UA-camr so they can get the proper recognition and a new subscriber(s).
@@ryanhoyt2210 Absolutely, his UA-cam channel, and real name is Torbjörn Åhman. Both his craftsmanship, and video editing is top notch, in my opinion.
Hell yes! Love seeing women working with metal 👏
I may sound stupid, but it never occured to me that you could have used an actual skillet as the pattern, it's really clever as it already has pattern draft into it. Making it from scratch could be fun, but would be incredibly time consuming. Thanks for sharing and take care!!
3D print with any font you want!
@@nickbrannon3251 So obvious!! I'm not saying I'll ever actually make it. But if I do, you've saved a LOT of work.
A good man will make 40 in a day
No castings shrink so it would be thinner than you want
Hi, new subscriber, Abom79 sent me. I wanted to thank you for helping Clark and the rest of the folks at the event, it was plain to see that you were indispensable there, and made things so much easier with the pours. Looking forward to checking out the rest of your content, and hope you have a great weekend!
Clark and Windy Hill are fabulous people and places. I think he actually loves teaching others because, in my opinion, the fount of all knowledge for casting. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding and best wishes for a fabulous future together.
Clarke is such an invaluable source when it comes to cast iron.
THats a lovely project. You and Rob will look at it for many, many decades to come.
I watch Adam all the time but did not see his mention of you. I am shut in so watch a lot of youtube. I was looking for new ones and saw yours and tried it Great program!!!! Am looking forward to seeing all of yours. Adam is a great guy and always entertaining .You are in good hands with him . Good luck and thanks
Congratulations Laura, both on the Skillet. and of course, the occasion that is the reason for it!
This video was fun to watch !
Thank you for showing us a little bit of how castings are made.
just got my Rucker straight edge from windy hill today. The cast iron looks to be very high quality. not that I'm an expert but it does have a good consistency to it ...... the casting came out really great too
very stinkin' cool! thanks for the good watch, and congrats on your upcoming hitching!
I went to HS in the 70's, and we learned how to do castings in shop class. Also did lost wax casting in a jewelers class. Love this stuff..nice work.
Me too. Can you imagine: they let us pour molten metal in school!! And use dangerous tools!
@@frankhoose Yeah we had a foundry in our metal shop in High School. I poured aluminum castings all the time. That was back in 1983.
That looks like a really fun weekend
WOW! Cool! You got married on my birthday! Congrats! Great video! Good info to know!
Great to see you Clark. God bless you always 🙏❤
Wow, that did come out really great, but boy its a lot of work! And mucho dangeroso
at least you did comments I had no Idea what you had cast on that day so cool and thought outside the box.
I really liked how that turned out! I like cast iron skillets!
So pleased the pour wasn't a disaster, I saw the earlier footage with all the flames and didn't know if it was a success. Now I do, and it was. Good trick with the linseed oil finish
Nice pour! and nice to know that there are people like you, Rob and Clarke,Jose and fellows in this world. For whatever reason, watching cast iron being poured makes me want to be a better human being.
It's wonderful to find your channel and Clarke's as well via Adam's channel... I've found all this neat stuff to look at in retirement... Now I just need to be young again so I can play too! ;)
Nice, hope to visit Clarke and Schloss Furnaces, after completing some patterns.
Awesome video. Just can't get enough of casting.
Awesome video, always wanted to learn how to cast and I've worked in a steel mill for 18 years😅...he's so lucky, you have a great personality and pretty too...
Laura, your cast iron skillet really turned out great, I enjoyed watching your video, &. thanks very much for sharing your video.!.!.!.
This was a beautiful video to watch. If you cook all your meals with a cast iron skillet, might as well make it a special one. I love it!
A good dog is one who has to be right in the middle of what you're doing. You've got a damn good dog there.
Just fascinating! I have not poured iron yet. That turned out GREAT!
I watch the difference in your sand casting and these dudes I watch in India. Making a mold takes them about 6 minutes, all the while they are in tee-shirts and flip flops, one dude is melting the steel sitting about a foot away from the smelter pecking on his phone while non chalantly stuffing broken cast iron in the opening. The guys make 5 or 6 molds and the steel is ready and they pour it in tee shirts and flip flops. I like the video from you and everyone, I lived in USA 50 years and moved over seas luckily I was pre acclimated to the very different ideas about safety and job just get er done. Great video thanks for the time needed to make,edit and post it!
That casting turned out very good. Nice work.
This is very impressive skill of craftsmanship from a by gone era. Good to see that there are people around who value these skills, perfect them over a lifetime, and pass them on to the younger generation.
I wonder if the brake rotor steel is suitable for use cooking. Has anyone checked if this material produces toxic emissions in a high heat environments such as stove top,
very high heat ovens, BBQ grills, etc. Does it meet the current standards for cooking utensils?
You ask about cooking temperatures! Think for a moment about what you just watched. That cast iron was approximately 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit when it was poured into the mold or over 7 times a typical frying temperature of 350 degrees. Any possible contaminants are long gone. The worst danger from cast iron comes from washing it with dish soap which can penetrate the pores and mix with oils creating a perfect environment for bacterial growth. That is easily cured by NEVER using any kind of soap on your good cast iron cookware. I'm sure that there are several good UA-cam videos on the care and feeding of your cast iron cookware.
I watched Adam's video of this. You footage is very cool. I am starting to save brake rotors for melting. Wish you the best on the upcoming wedding. Stay safe during the pours.
Those would make a great wedding gift . great idea .
WoW ! Absolutely brilliant!!! That’s a work of art 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
Robs a lucky dude! Congratulations to you both
wow wish i could do that its more than a skillet its art absolutely beautiful
Love this, won't try this at home, but had to watch the whole video. Well done.
Sustainable. In 50 years we will be digging up all the landfills to get at the awesome raw materials we threw away. Thanks for this.
That’s what I’ve been saying for several decades!👍🏻
I love how in some of the clips, you can see the hot crucible giving off a purple light. I wonder if it's so hot that some of the light it's giving off is in the ultraviolet range? Many cameras are able to pick up ultraviolet light, including phone cameras!
Wow, that’s such an interesting fact about us light and cameras! Wouldn’t it be interesting if it was that hot?!
I do a lot of camping with me mates and our wives in Australia. I would love something personal like that made up.... good job.!!!
I'm Brazilian foundryman. I love this!
A transformational event (for you) in many ways. I enjoy your work very much. Happy Nuptials to y'all.
This is absolutely amazing, Now I want to make a skillet!!!! Thank you for sharing!!! #love
If you end up making one please let me know, I’ll love to see how it turns out!☺️❤️
Great idea, I have some sign letters and a small skillet too... :)
Congrats on your upcoming wedding!
Hey, I tried this! Made a cast aluminum birthday card skillet for my wife. I'm still working up my nerve to try cast iron someday, but meanwhile that's what black spraypaint is for... Thanks for the idea! It came out nice, she likes it, but the 3 A's I used kicked my butt. Stupid little triangles...
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. May your marriage wear like iron, and feel light as a feather.
Interesting to watch small batch or single pours like this, I work in a foundry where we will pour a few hundred of things like brake rotors or caliper brackets all at once.
Chineese iron.
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. If you both can make it through 2020, the rest of your lives ought to be a piece of cake.
Omg! Love this idea! That is super cute and functional!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Nicely done Video 👍 skillet came out awesome
Nice job! I wish I could do something like this.
I like how the edging on the letters came out very crisp.
Very nice job! I'm amazed that your letters stayed on the pan you used with only Elmer's glue. I believe I herd you say something in the video about adding additional weights. I believe you are correct, that more weights would definitely help with metal running out of your molds. You may also want to set the mold between two plates and bolt it together. I must say.. Rob is a lucky fella!
Hey neat bit of work on the pan! I don't know if you're going to use it or not but I have a feeling breakfast would taste particularly good made in it! (Bonus points for the cat-meo too!)
Ok you answered my question :*)
Great looking cast iron pan.
wow bring me back to
high school.. thanks
be safe
Congratulations on the wedding! Nice work on your pour.
That was great, keep it up. Enjoy your day. I came here through Abom and now I’m here to stay.
Dear Laura , That was a great idea to use the sign board letters , Congratulation on your up coming wedding (are you old enough to get married ??) , And I bought one of those hand held vises and jig vises, after seeing you use them , I wish i knew they existed about 30 years ago , Thank you for tacking the time to make this video Pete M
Nice job on the skillet it turned out nice. Have a great wedding day. ATB Stay safe. regards from the UK
Congratulations on your wedding tomorrow, all the best.
Rob is one lucky man. Hope you have a great future together! Turned out beautiful.
lol maybe.
This is my first time on this channel so I'm just talki...typing out my ass but hopefully they've been dating and/or engaged for a couple of years or so. It's extremely hard to hide the crazy longer than that.
haaa. verbal vandalism is fun.
Great job! I love the casting videos, and the finished skillet was awesome. Shout out for Rob and Bones, great support crew!
Good to the the start to finish of this project.
That’s cool. I know some people that make the sand molds for people and that’s all they do for a living
Hi
Where can I buy the moulds ?
I don't know if I'll ever cast iron or steel b/c of the temps but would love to do so. I was online minding my own business when a link to a video came up. That was Abom's Windy Hill experience. I had to watch. Anyway, you mentioned my little hometown of Granite City, IL. That is why I'm here now. Had you not mentioned Granite City, I would not have came to your page even if you are good looking. :) Anyway, I have been to two of your videos. I like what I've seen so far. I'd like to come to a workshop next time you are here for an event.
That's a really cool one-of-a-kind skillet. Really nice how it came out. Been looking up info on casting. Thinking to make things out of bronze. Interesting to see how to do it.
Abom's arrival for *you*!
Also that boy is the bestest of boys.
It takes a lot of efforts to make one. Next time I buy one. I won't complain on the price. Thank you!
I was laughing because my lady would have taken that and put it on the stove and used it to get that beautiful black.
Nicely done. You make me want to get back to doing some more casting. I use petrobond and aluminum, attempting to make simple machines such as dividing heads and such. It is such a rush to pour molten metal and come back hours later to find what surprises are in that sand.
Brilliant result
Congratulations on your marriage! I just saw this video today, and saw the 7/12/2020 date on the skillet. I thought, wow, that's today!!!!
Very ,very nice. I would love to give that a go!
Congratulations to the newlyweds.
Wow, you made a super interesting and professional video of this project Laura. Love your voice over! Nice to see you already created casted memories of your future wedding, I wish you every luck and happiness towards this special day.
Here by ways of a prompt from Adam. I retired years ago but used to work for a foundry that produced castings weighing several tons (parts for a steam turbine generator). We used to make things for home in our dinner hour. Have fun Laura, but be careful.
Great job, I'm impressed! Very cool looking skillet with such a good idea of putting your wedding date on!
I've gotta say though, please consider not using gloves when using the angle grinder. If the material is caught up in the spinning disc, it's got a high chance of pulling your finger with it, especially using it with no guard. Maybe hold it a bit further back with gloves, as I know the sparks can hurt! We were always shouted at while at the training school whenever we used gloves on any rotating machinery, bench grinder, angle grinder, drill press, etc. We never thought of it until it was pointed out, and we were showed the gruesome after images of when it went wrong.
Gloves and angle grinder is not a huge deal, leather gloves and abrasive disks don't catch very easily. Put something in an old glove other than your hand and try it - it'll just bounce off and maybe grind a hole through it - not the violent catch you'd get with a metal lathe or even a drill, because there's no real teeth to a disk.
Taking the guard off though is a good way to lose fingers - I've seen that happen and had to put co-worker fingers on ice and drive him to the hospital because he was "inconvenienced" by the guard.
Don't be like stumpy. put the damn guard back on.
The skillet turned out nice Laura.
Beautiful job. It's something I've always wanted to try. I can't believe anyone would give a thumbs down to this video
Perfect! Excellent combination of voice over explanation of what you are doing, background music that doesn't get in the way, content, and the dialog is all you! You love us? We love you too! Oh, suggestion: let Bones get a little screen time too, and don't forget the screen creds for him! See you at the next pour.
I'm envious of you. I have always wanted make a casting. I've been a machinist since the mid 70s. I worked for 2 companies that had their own foundries. I never got the chance to do that. Good job! If you can't stand the heat, get out of the foundry. Next time, can you do an Anvil?
Nice! There is a guy in england who uses brake disks for cast iron skillets. I could totally see the one hanging on the wall, but I think it would also be nice to have one or two to use camping or backyard bbq. Also, since you are married now, your gypsy days are over, time to change your handle.
Nice work! And good to see Adam doing his first pour there!
Damn..we did casting in junior high. I did a brass belt buckle. Why didn't I think of this?
Absolutely awesome, I'm glad I stumbled across your video - you're very talented!
Very much impressed, the skillet turned out nice. I would like to have one.
Congratulations! What a great way to memorialize your wedding.
Flapper wheel..... I'm assuming that that's going to be just straight up decor..... AWESOME 👌...
That skillet project came out outstanding! You do have a good skill in metal work. Thanks for sharing.
awsome. I love it! dang, thats good sand. Also, might be the biggest crucible I have ever seen!
This is way cool. Kudos!
So cool Laura. Thank you for the video.
I was wondering how you was going to make the skillet, but you did and it looks great and I have some skillets which I use for cooking and can't do without them due to where I live here in Arkansas and the weather conditions we have leaving us without electricity during each year. I gave up on non stick cookware since I had to replace them every two years or less and have just a steel wok and using my cast iron skillets to cook in.
Excellent video - best wishes to you and Rob for a wonderful life together!
That skillet turned out awesome! Can't say that I blame the dog for wanting some camera time also, He's quite the handsome pooch.
Why wont that pot melt ?
Inquiring minds want to know.
It gives a whole new meaning of playing with fire.
Thanks
Interesting. Thank you. Lovely little frying pan. Cheers from Canada :-)
The skillet turn out nice. The pup says "but mom you know I am the star of your you tube channel".