Thread: Casting Scales from Silver Gold Brass etc.

Interesting stuff,wgt might be a concern tho,I remember when gold was $32 an ounce

I thought the same thing about the wieght. But I am not good enough at shaving to know the difference. It will never be as light as wood but all I can do is give it a shot. I was thinking I could do some engraving to get the weight down and experiment to see how thin I could get the scales. Or do a skeleton scale where you could see the razor through the side. We will see I guess.

Very good idea. Im iterested in seeing how this pans out.

Have you thought about aluminium?

I can see not getting to fancy with your experiment but without some sort of artwork I think that it is making it harder than it has to be to cast plain scales. With the amount of work to shape the wax you could already have a set from a sheet of metal.

I would shy away from the single piece idea. How are you going to run the sprues and vents from the mold? With two pieces you can put everything in the relatively hidden inside for less clean up. Soldering the halves together would be easy and unnoticeable.

Make your wax as smooth as you can because one of the neat things with investment casting is you get out what you put in. If you do it right every scratch will be reproduced perfectly.

I look forward to your results.

Tim

Originally Posted by 32t

Have you thought about aluminium?

I can see not getting to fancy with your experiment but without some sort of artwork I think that it is making it harder than it has to be to cast plain scales. With the amount of work to shape the wax you could already have a set from a sheet of metal.

Tim

Yes I have, but I'm not really interested in doing something that I know that I can do. More so learning something that I've never done.

This is just the first attempt and I'm sure if it works out I will make more intricate designs.

To be honest tho, it took longer to write the original post than it did to get the wax shaped. I had maybe 45 minutes of work into this.

Just pushing the envelope. That's all.