today's casting

[dallen]

I've been working on this for a spell now, first I made a couple of small flask that I posted pictures of which let me ram up one of the grip panels in each one, but I was still having problems with the finish being the same and other things, tooo many to mention, one of which was if I rammed up both halves in one flask I was dealing with like 40 pounds of sand.

So I made a flask thats only about with both halves together about 4 inches deep and like 5.5 X 8 which is a lot less sand to have to deal with. sorry no picture of the flask just one of the pattern. the as casted finish on the flask was slick enough that the sand would not stick in it so I used a woodruff key cutter and cut a couple of slots partially down the long side. next one I will just use a drill and pock mark the surface .



next photo is of the outside of the scales, sorry I didn't do any clean up other then to cut the sprue and runner off.



third photo is of the inside which I had a lot of failures before figuring out that I needed to use graphite as parting dust on the bakelite grips, this seems to let the oil bonded sand turn loose a lot better.



This set is good enough that I would actually sell this pair to someone.