Loading ...This weekend is apparently known as the bank holiday weekend.
While every other youth went out to poison themselves with drinks containing ethanol (chemical name for a type of alcohol, for the err *special* people reading my blog), what do me and my friends do…?
Make bronze by melting and combining copper with tin!! That’s right! We’re the true non-conformists, the faggy kids who talk about being rebels yet do what everyone else does… we laugh in their face! *muahahaha*
Anyhow back to the making bronze thing…
It involves digging up some clay, rummaging through skips/construction sites to find copper pipes/wires and purchasing some lead free solder (mainly made out of tin).
The clay is carefully washed and moulded into the shape of a crucible.
Next we chop up some wood to start the fire in the forge, once that gets going we put in some charcoal, followed by placing the crucible in there to dry up the clay and to test whether it will hold.
When the clay crucible passes the test, copper (broken down pieces of pipe/wire) is placed in the crucible, when it melts we chuck a small amount of tin in and you end up with bronze!
Here are some photos from a session we had a few days ago…
Left to right (for whoever cares…) Nick, Abdul (me!), Paul, Chris
The yellow thing in the middle is the forge where we light the fire and stick the metal in:
A close-up
of the crucible inside the forge with some copper wire in it:
Abdul
wow. that must be fun.
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sarah
May 2nd, 2005
It was
I’d go to Chris’s place to make bronze over going out clubbing/drinking etc anyday!!
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Abdul
May 2nd, 2005
hmm..is that a green anvil i see?..fascinating stuff indeed
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xcentric
May 2nd, 2005
It is
Thats where we… well chris :P… hammer hot/molten metals into shape…
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Abdul
May 2nd, 2005
Dear God,
Please dont let him cut his hair.*you wont baby tarzan,will you?*
(rotfl)
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sanu
May 3rd, 2005
you like my hair then?
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Abdul
May 3rd, 2005
oh youu wish =P
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sanu
May 3rd, 2005
good going….
pretty interesting stuff..
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Saroosh
May 3rd, 2005
bah! your just jealous of my lovely straight hair!
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Abdul
May 3rd, 2005
it is indeed
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Abdul
May 3rd, 2005
shut up,mines longer =P
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sanu
May 3rd, 2005
what did ya make out of that bronze? just a piece of metal or did u shape it into something ( sword, knife, dildo ? )
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Frankey
May 4th, 2005
haha made a ring
something simple to start off with… might move to more complicated things as we perfect our technique of making moulds etc.
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Abdul
May 4th, 2005
Anyone actually wearing it? :p
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Frankey
May 4th, 2005