Some projects need degassing, since bubbles can be a problem sometimes. For example, casting resin in a mold, without degassing, means you’ll have to repair a lot of tiny damages on the surface. If you’re casting a soft material, like a silicone, it means you’ll have an uneven consistency of the final piece because of …
Some months ago my friend Capestranus told me he’d have liked to build a boat, but that it was obviously too difficult. Some time earlier than that I had become interested in boatbuilding as a craft I had never tried, and so had passed quite some time studying it, and so I knew that while …
Furnaces are usually tall, hollow cylinders, and mine doesn’t make an exception. This means that the last pair of tongs that we made, designed for pouring, won’t be able to take the crucible out of the furnace, for that, we’ll need specifically designed tongs. These new tongs will share most of their crafting process with …
For my current project I need tongs, and cheap light built ones are available on the internet, but I wanted them to be good for heavier crucibles too, and to spend even less. Plus it’s always a pleasure to get your own stuff from raw materials! As in my last project, I’ve kept it simple, …
I needed to build a bevel jig to make knives’ blades, and for that, there is a pretty standard way to build that kind of jig. Alas, they’re always made completely out of metal, requiring quite some welding and threading, and I don’t have threading equipment, nor anything more accurate than an angle grinder for …