Japanese Traditional Metal Casting

[waterchildtera]

how radio active is it ?

[silversculptor]

A beautiful piece of work. Looks to me like the metals are first shibuichi (a Japanese alloy including about 20-25% silver and most of the rest copper)  then bronze. The furnaces would be fired with coke/charcoal, melt at about 1000 degrees C, powdered charcoal added at the end to scavenge oxygen producing a reducing atmosphere for a nice clean cast. And the colours in the finished piece brought out by polishing the surface then using "rokusho" patination.

[menotami]

Why not some good, appropriate traditional Japanese music instead of the crap music??

[ServoliniFireOnWood]

what was in the first little casting? Fe??

[lowtechlou]

あなたは、金型が行われる方法のプロセスのビデオを確認してくだ­さいできますか？あなたはまた、砂の芯を作ったのですか？



[BoingotheClown]

That just looks like ordinary sand casting to me ... ... but what was that metal in the small crucible that was added first?

[dx80cruiser]

That must be at least 100deg C

[trvekvltBurzum]

@dx80cruiser you ment 1000 degrees Celsius.

[SMsmelter]

@dx80cruiser its much, much more than a boiling wather

[commandZ3R0]

9 people are angry World War II veterans

[maxinpains]

@commandZ3R0

Being angly on our strongest U.S. allie force? My god! I fogot & believing that Histry channel drama still continueing!! LOL

[motasan46]

ありがとうございます。

砂型の砂は どのような砂がよいのでしょうか？

海 山 川の砂 アルミを鋳かけようかと思案中です。

[AxelTiger]

what is the cup (crusible?) made from?

[ab48726]

Nice job! That was a thirsty mold!

[Cstrife234]

is it charcoal, or coal?

[keneyed209]

what type of flux ?

[thusalwaystotyrants]

cowboy bebop

[syoli23]

y they dont use gating system?

[rerla88]

wanted silicon metal......

[ebikeofacookbook]

Thanks!!

[ewigkase1]

Japanese Patinas and Japanese Metalsmithing Patination. is this one book or two books

[marshallspikebanana]

Tank! From Cowboy Bebop very cool....

[raginpixie]

some of the music is from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack

[andishavlik]

oops, I commented from my boyfriends page. HE wanted to know about the music, I wanted to know about your work. Thanks.

[mpolzkill]

Thank you Eitoku Sugimori, what were the different kind of metals? Beautiful finished object.

[tTatmosT]

i'm not sure but i think it was aluminum and iron....

[acerkiwi]

was brass or bronze

[gatolupas]

Is this available with commentary in English? I'd like to know what he is doing. What's the slag he 's scooping out? Is he making Shakudo? Great music, but I want to know!!

(what was that musik, anyway?)

[homemarks]

that music is from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack

[rsolveira]

That's quite impressive & beautiful.

[madehipster]

sugoi! totemo jouzu to omoimasu.