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I would go for the bronze
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C'mon John, go for the gold. Ooops, am I not on the olympic site?
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pattern with a couple coats of rattle can paint and the just added wax fillet, co a couple more coats of paint and I should be ready to pour tomorrow afternoon for sure Tuesday morning but may wait till Wenesday when my coffee drinking buddy shows up.
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have the pattern ready to mold up and pour but the winds blowing about 30 MPH so no metal casting today.
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02-19-2013, 09:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-19-2013, 09:02 PM by dallen.)
poured the backing plate today, whats funny is the metal went in the furnace yellow as gold and came out of the mold looking a lot like copper and the stuff I used was all the same color and not a bit of copper in it. Anyway heres the photo
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