Casting Coins on a STOVE!

Foundry sand I use!

The Pewter from this vid.

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[GPandzik]

Quick safety tip: If you're working with pewter, make sure it's newer pewter (say, since the 1980s or so), as older or antique pewter was made with tin and lead (as opposed to modern tin, copper, antimony, and bismuth alloys), and lead poisoning is double-plus un-cool. I'm all for reusing and recycling, but make sure you're doing it safely!

[davideldridge]

Instead of a black wash, you may want to try a Patina solution. It will give the natural darkening to the metal which will be permanent and not wear away as easily as paint. It also still allows you buff off the ridge to keep the shiny highlights. and you can dip item in the solution, so faster than painting with a brush.

[sufferedenuf]

Years ago, I saw a guy fling coins onto the beach. He showed me one. They were doubloons that he made to spoof tourists so he could watch their reaction to finding them.

[winterknightwarden]

I wish you had shown the dremal carving of the blocks, but I can't argue with that Lazer method. Thanks for this.

[Yarrgoth_the_Gae]

Regarding the "use a pan you don't care too much about" part, I've seen cookware at thrift stores for dirt cheap. So if like me you're rather limited on your current cookware supplies and not interested in risking buggering any of them up, you could probably shop around and thrift a nice enough pot to get the job done for cheap

[CalliopePony]

I like the simplicity of the wood and sand mold, and I want to try it. But I suspect that repeatedly screwing and unscrewing the wood pieces would mean that it wouldn't last very long. Eventually the screws would wear through the wood, and they would get loose over time and not hold together. What I might try instead would be to drill holes through the wood, pass long bolts through them, and use wingnuts to tighten and loosen the pieces as needed. I think that would last longer and be simpler to open and close the mold.

[TwilightRage]

You should make some Gallium coins as pranks. Hand one to someone only to watch it melt in their hand... then you laugh. Perfect for a trickster type character.

[pufthemajicdragon]

You said pewter and I got worried. But the pewter you sourced is lead-free. You might wanna let people know in the future - don't melt lead pewter (or lead anything) in your kitchen. And whatever you melt, be mindful of fumes and do it outside or in a vented workshop.
If you're using pewter already, it's soft enough you can stamp it far more easily than other metals you've tried. And stamping can go a lot faster than pouring, so if you've got a lot to make that's the way to do it. Some metals soften as they warm up before they melt, so you can even do a combo approach pre-heating the blanks or the stamp to get a faster and better impression.

[oldwaysrisingfarm]

Foundry sand is sand and clay...and oil or water. The clay component is bentonite, aka clumping kitty litter! Good on you for sticking with it!

[graywolfdracon]

I'd happily watch more coin videos. So explore more ways to make coins. More options is always a good thing.

[JarlSeamus]

Terrific intro to sand casting. The Sprue is actually the hole you pour the metal into, the other hole is a vent. Otherwise, fantastic! Nice job

[jakeaurod]

You can attach the funnel and vent shapes to the coin or a copy of the coin made in wax or plastic. Then, the imprint in the sand will include them and you won't have to make them manually each time. Also, they can be smaller and thinner so that they can be more easily snipped off instead of looking like a tumor growing around the edge of your cast coin.

I'm not sure if you'd need a release agent for graphite, since graphite is itself used as a lubricant. Also, I hear Zamak is a good DIY casting allow, but I think it requires higher temperatures.

As for future methods to try... I wonder if you would want to try making fantasy coins out of cast resin with fancy glitter or powders to make them sparkle or glow in the dark in whole or in part. I can imagine you setting up a UV/Blacklight at a sacred site or near a magical object and the coins would begin glowing as they are powered up and activated. You could probably do that with lots of magical objects.

[HDBrown-wcxt]

Looks great. Probably reverse the image of the fox and crow. Have them pop out instead of be reset. Yes show all the techniques.

[rogueshadow]

I have some experience in casting jewellery, you want to keep the heat on the metal as long as possible before you pour it, so having a small torch to keep heat on it as you pour it will help it from cooling too fast. Also for safety, having a flat bord on the sides of the mold to cover the sand will make sure that the sand stays in place just in case it's not packed in enough for larger molds.

[theartsypixie]

I use the wooden plugs as furniture lifts. My chaise lounge was too low so I grabbed a 2x4 and drilled out 4 plugs stained them to match the wood accents and screwed them to the legs and covered the bottom with felt so it didn't scratch my floors.

[HairMetalKaren]

The feeling when you finally nail something that has been a pain in the butt for years... It's euphoric!

[riuphane]

This is super awesome and a great solution to what I want to do.
One suggestion with the laser engraved graphite, make the pattern negative to it stands up rather than being sunken in

[drschonify]

I want to see your take on wax/lost resin replacement casting, but that graphite was slick!

[ConnorMainwold]

The channel townsends Did a video casting Musketballs using a soapstone mold

[Therealravencry]

Now that you've nailed casting coins, could you show how to cast a branch of coins or make a coin tree mold like how the ancient of cultures would cast a dozen or so in one pour?