Someone's missing...

[F.C.]

Whatever happened to "Silverforge"? He come aboard hard driven and determined, a ball of fire with a full tank, then pffffffttt.... Like within a couple weeks he phizzled like a damp match get'n struck. I don't even think he got a furnace up and lit, did he? Or, did he wander over to the AA site and got sucked in with that crew's obsession build'n the perfect burner?

Haven't heard from a few, really... i.e., Nudge, Latz, Rocco, and others. Rasper's a bit overdue, too... curious how his sculpture is come'n along.

Fc

[Rasper]

Silverforge disappeared from AA as well. Latz and Rocco are here. Rasper? I think he's off playing golf.

I am putting the finishing touches on one of my girls. The other one is ready to mold. I want to mold both at the same time. When I open the polyurethane rubber I like to use it all up within a couple of days. This hot humid air I live in is death to opened polyurethane. I have a spray can of the X-Tendit that is supposed to help prevent this, but it doesn't help much. Here is the China Doll



And ready to mold.





It takes a lot of clay to make clay dams like this, but I had the good fortune, back when Dick Blick was selling Kleen Klay for a dollar a pound, to buy about fifty pounds of it. Kleen Klay has since gone out of business. It's sulfur free so you don't have to worry about rubber molds.

Richard

[F.C.]

Very nice, Richard... She's a beauty.

[latzanimal]

I'm around. Not as often as I'd like.. but I'm here. Just don't always have something to say..

Lookin' good Richard...

[dallen]

someone keeps opening the door they just don't stay, the view count on my shaper threat is almost 50000 views, someone besides myself is looking at it.

But I get to wondering the same thing where are the people, be nice sometimes to read about others projects.

[Rasper]

Projects seem to run in cycles, as does everything else. On my two metal shaping forums, five years ago there were a lot of guys building fantastic cars; now there are maybe two. People seem to be hunkering down right now.

The Old Testament addresses this quite well. (There is a ton of brilliant stuff in there if you can wade through the verbiage.) "There is a time to sow, and a time to reap)—and so on.

Richard

[latzanimal]

My life has been side tracked with honey do projects. Struggled for almost 4 years putting the wife through school and now that she's graduated and back to work, she wants to get the house fixed up. Put a new floor in the ding room and living room so far. However, been a big damper on MY projects.

Just found out I'm going to be a grandpa, we'll see how that affects things…

Got 2 drums ready to turn. Had plans to sell my bike and buy a cnc, haven't even dusted the bike off yet. Still sitting on 50 or 60lbs of bronze that I want to melt into a shell…. the list goes on….

[Jammer]

What kind of drums are you going to turn? I'm still kicking around ideas on pouring a bronze shell. It always comes down to volume, have to have two large furnaces going. I've thought about using a cupola for bronze but I think it might mess it up for going back to Iron. It would have to be cleaned out really well.
No, I don't have a cupola furnace, it's still in my head.

[latzanimal]

I have a couple of wood shells I need to turn at the moment….

Looking closer at the companies who were last doing it, they were pouring a shell somewhere between .75" and 1" thick, then lots of time on the lathe..

[bunyip]

Howdy everyone, must admit I have been missing for awhile.Sold our 11 acre property in Victoria & bought a house with excellent shedding near Mount Gambier in South Australia.Hope I can now get on with my bone carving but most importantly get some jewellery cast in a variety of metal.Only just managed to get back on the internet yesterday; had the devil's own job getting that sorted ( Frank, you would have been proud of the fight I put up to get the net connected)!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers Trev.