Nice one Martin - you are officially the Elder Statesman & Senior Benchmarker of the community, and I am sure we all wish you a speedy recovery. Get well soon.

Thank you Martin! Congratulations to all the those that participated and especially to those recognized here. They were all fabulous.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Sw, My one regret is that I did not have more prizes to give as so many deserved them... Martin

Thanks again Martin, I'm honored. I will wear it with pride!

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Dennis, My pleasure mate - let me know when it gets there should be close now!... Martin

👏👏👏👌😊

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Dion, Thanks... Martin

OMG thank you so much Martin and Nigel! That is VERY generous of you, i will try to put that huge cruicible to good use. All the openers were awesome. It was a great fun collab. Well done Perry too, for making it all happen.

@swdweeb

5 жыл бұрын

Congratulations Julian. Well done.

@JulianMakes

5 жыл бұрын

@@swdweeb cheers buddy! i can't believe it, so chuffed i've never won anything! :)

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Julian, Its now packaged up and should be posted next few days... Martin

@JulianMakes

5 жыл бұрын

@@olfoundryman8418 ooh thank you so much martin! i'm very excited thank you :)

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

@@JulianMakes, I say, contain yourself there lad - or you might wet your pants 😱🤣… Martin

Wonderful prizes. You’re a good man for giving prizes and helping out with the challenge.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

John, I was unable to get involved but the prizes were something I could do to assist and I am glad that it has gone so well and that people seem to agree with my choices... Martin

I think that video sums it up nicely. As you say, so many amazing designs and I know from I own piddly little effort, quite time consuming in the design, creation and making the video to present it. All done in a very friendly and supportive way. I certainly saw videos from folks I have never had any contact with, before this event. And a big well done to the Winners and Perry and Martin

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Smallcnc, Thank you... Martin

Your generosity is commendable. Keep a positive thought, my prayers are with you.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Mav, Thank you - I am trying to stay positive but sometimes its not easy... Martin

Good choices, and good on you (and Nigel) for offering to send prizes! This whole thing was just too much fun, both as a watcher and a participant.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Tobho, Yes, I rather thought that it was a good bit of fun too - stay tunned there just has to be more!... Martin

Congratulations Julian... That octopus was truly a work of art. WELL DONE :) Ps, looking forward to the next collaboration

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Kraft, From the rumours that I have heard you should not have too long to wait.. Martin

Praying for a speedy recovery, Martin!

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Mister, Thank you, but its a very slow process... martin

Great choices, Martin! You did have a tough job. Being new around here I was astounded at the results of the challenge. Quite nice prizes.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew, There was a lot of very good entries to choose from. I think Perry was well pleased with it all.... Martin

I have just taken a look at Julian HG's octopus - not only is it a fabulous thing, but it is a highly uplifting video! Congrats to all - from concept to delivery!

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Andy, To be honest Julian scares me! For someone quite new to casting he has come on fast and where he will be in a few years is scary... Martin

@andycoombes

5 жыл бұрын

@@olfoundryman8418 Indeed - he is smart - and I noticed in the detail that the knowledge gained online from people like yourself has had an enormous effect.

You made great choices with the winner IMO and it's awesome that you did this giveaway and thanks for the advise you been sending me I super appericiate it and plan to give credit soon ;) Congrats to all the winners. I look forward to any future project and anyone looking for a collab hit me up! CHEER!!!

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Matt, I am well pleased with the general response to the winners - I was worried that some people might object to my choices but in what I think speaks very highly of the community involved there has been overwhelming support and no dissention at all. Regarding future challenges I understand that moves are in the works so keep an eye on our good mate Swdweeb…. Martin

Kudos! Glad to hear you're doing well and hope you're improving.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Craig, Improvement sadly is very slow, so slow in fact as to be debatable, but as they say one foot in front of the other... Martin

Great stuff Martin. Thanks for sharing

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Rupert, My pleasure… Martin

Good to see a video from you, well wishes and all.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Jesse, I should have another out in a week or so and thank you for your good wishes... Martin

Martin can you do a video on your foundary, what fuel etc. All the chemicals/ additives you use when casting aluminium.

@olfoundryman8418

4 жыл бұрын

Mani, I will see if I can put something together in the wasy of a video about what I use but really it isn't much. It may take a while as I have a few things on the list... Martin

Wishing you good health sir.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Volcker, Thank you for your kind wishes - at the moment at least things do seem to be improving... Martin

Some well deserved winners with some great presentations. I wish I could have spent more time to work on mine. I almost bought a small foundry set up which some shop put together but decided not to use. I'll kick myself for a while as it was a decent (maybe incredible) deal, but sadly I just don't have the space right now. Maybe I'll be able to do something more substantial in the next challenge. In the meantime my research project has new summer tasks thanks to an unplanned schedule change, I have a 24 inch rock saw to put back together for my father, a small mountain of dirt to toss with my temporarily working trommel, upgrades to plan out for the trommel, etc... I really need to say no to taking on more big projects sometimes 🤣.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Ask, I think that "almost" will come back to haunt you - it sounds like you missed a good deal - sometimes you just have to grab what life puts in front of you and go with it. You never know you may need that small foundry to repair that 24 inch rock saw - Man that's a biggie! Actually made a trommel many years ago to comply with my fathers request that I sieve his several cubic yards of compost. I used a large wire cage for a 10 gallon glass bottle covered it with chicken wire. Mounted on a crude frame and drove it with a "spare" mower engine - sieved the compost in a couple of hours! Ah, the long lost energy of early teen years 😢.. Martin

@askquestionstrythings

5 жыл бұрын

@@olfoundryman8418 that "almost" is definitely haunting my dreams already. Fortunately the rock saw is mostly a reassembly job. I'll need to put a new piano hinge on it and put a new view port in, but that should be the worst of it. My father also has an old artisan split bed lathe which a new nut on it's lead screw. I toyed with the thought of casting the odd shaped bronze nut and flange, but I'm thinking I might try having it 3D printed in metal through a reasonably priced prototyping company. It should still be cheaper than buying the correct ACME tap and easier than trying to figure out making a tool and trying single point threading. That's cool that you built a trommel. Sifting compost is one reasons why I had been long planning to build one. I miss that energy of my teenage years too, I ended up spending a summer moving about forty 55 gallon drums filled with rocks. I had the energy to empty each barrel and move them one by one from one side of my father's place to the other in preparation to build a new garage.

That belt buckle is beautiful!!

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

JR, Thank you. It was made a long while ago but possible commercial sensitivities prevent me from actually saying who made it 😏… Martin

Man ,,,I need to pay closer attention to the videos alert ,,,,didn't know about this till today 😢

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

J C, There was just so much going on with the challenge that it was hard to see it all - I kept finding new challenge videos for days and even then I may have missed one or two, but I hope not . Next time there might be something similar on the go (might not be too 😏) so keep your eyes open just in case... Martin

@Scott-wl2zh

5 жыл бұрын

@@olfoundryman8418 I definitely will,,,unfortunately I had not been on you tube for so time and I didn't realize I had notifications turned off ,,,but I have them on now for the next go round ,,,have been viewing the challenge videos off and on all night ,,,elegant and whimsical designs ,,,Quality and imaginative examples of the ( church key ,,,as I called it in my youth lol ) bottle opener ,,, 👍

Hope you're doing well, Martin. Miss your videos

@olfoundryman8418

4 жыл бұрын

Net, Thank you for your good thoughts. I am still standing as they say but would like to be a bit more energetic! I have a 4 part video series in preparation 3 parts done and working on the fourth - first part should be out in a week or so... Martin

@networkcrasher

4 жыл бұрын

@@olfoundryman8418 It's ok. Without your health, there's no videos - so by all means, work on yourself before you bother with us and the videos. Meanwhile I am going back and re-learning about tilt casting.

WOW! a H.D. item made in the USA! getting rare this days

@andrewmartin4258

5 жыл бұрын

Umm, I believe it was made in Australia.

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew, I am not saying where its made!. 😏... Martin

For the blacksmith you could make a brass hammer

@olfoundryman8418

5 жыл бұрын

DP, Full size I assume you mean? Nice idea - soft brass or medium or hard bronze?... Martin

@dpworks7751

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I mean full size, and I would think that the Medium would be best for most work. Going with the hard bronze may result in chipping.