We set up a complete working foundry at a local festival. During our demonstrations we made sand cast brass pieces. [...]
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The entrance way hardware on your home may seem like a small detail. In reality it is an important consideration. When deciding on hardware for your home, brass is always a good selection. It is available in many finishes, has a long life and is easily maintained. Before you purchase, you must be prepared for [...] Shayler Engraving and Your-Door-Knocker.com will be conducting an outdoor open air foundry demonstration. It will take place at the 8th annual Charlestown Township Summer Festival, August 7, 2010 from 3:00 – 5:00. Equipment demonstration and instruction in patterns and mold making will be offered. Weather permitting we will actually melt brass and pour castings on [...] Like many others, when we thought about a foundry, our mind’s eye immediately pictured a steaming hot crucible pouring rd hot molten metal into a mold. That, we imagined, was all that takes place in the foundry. Granted, the pouring of the metal is probably the most exciting part, but it is a very small part nonetheless. There is a lot of work to do to get to that point. [...] It has been some time since the last writing. This is because we have been extremely busy bringing our small foundry online. [...] The foundations of our current products are not evolved from new technology. The skills have been around as long as man has been working with metals and wood. [...] Over the years I have worked on thousands of brass door knockers. This was the first time I experienced the actual birth of one. [...] The brass door knocker selection offered by Your-Door-Knocker is produced in foundries by the sand casting method. This method involves pouring molten brass into a mold made of sand and letting it cool to form a casting. [...] Our experience in the foundry making our brass door knocker didn’t start in the foundry at all. As a matter of fact there is a lot of work to be done before the foundry work can even begin. First of all we need something to cast. We call this the pattern. It seems that our [...] The posts have been scarce lately as I have been spending a good deal of time in the foundry with the development of our latest brass door knocker design. Two years ago I would have never imagined actually creating our own castings. Until now we have sourced our castings from production foundries many located [...] |
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