Check Out Our Ingot Mold!

[vandy]

Yup, that is an antique cast iron corn stick pan. :-) Nothin' like golden, um, I mean bronze corn. A great way to clean the grease and dust out too!

Comments

[fjorlief.livejournal.com]

I'll bet the butter melts really fast on those ears of cornbread

[nobu.livejournal.com]

WTF? this is awesome in like five ways, but um... still...

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the grease create molten schrapnel when the molten bronze hits it?
I have a great story about steam press molds we did in college I will tell you sometime.

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

No, it just fired up a little. The molds didn't really trap the grease, so no boom. Better yet, you can go watch our last pour since I stuck a video up on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdH3UMlOBc OTOH my SCA brother had a very traumatic experience with pewter and water once...

[ya-inga.livejournal.com]

Oh that is simply HI-larious

: )

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Mum just found us another pan too, so now we get two sizes of corn-shaped bronze! ;-)

[gulenay-barb.livejournal.com]

So, how are you planning to serve this corn?

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Hot! ;-)

[baronsnorri.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of melting down 12-volt battery elements when I was little--we used muffin pans to pour ouir ingots. Ahh! Those were the high-tech days!!

: )

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

We almost used a muffin tin, but I mentioned wishing for something thicker and voila! ;-) High-tech, yup. Sort of like the coffee can forge - a great thing. Actually, our melt furnace is surprisingly well engineered. But I wanted to make something *nice* and *finished looking* for a change.

[ariadne3.livejournal.com]

Genius! Sheer genius!

Bill will bust a gut when I show this to him.

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll be looking for other entertaining "ingot molds" from now on when I'm in thrift/junk/antique stores. :-)

[sablebadger.livejournal.com]

Clever.

[sigivald.livejournal.com]

I heart cool but pointless.

And I really need to learn me to cast the things.

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Casting is pretty fun and easy. And since you have access to a torch you could already do small things... Eventually when we have the house done there will be neat come and geek out nights.