I strongly like your philosophy. trying without knowing for sure, that's when you know more than you knew yesterday. You are the pro -master!

Just found your channel whilst researching how bronze sculptures are made- I'm a sculptor and going to be going to university for art soon and I'll have the facilities to do metal work, casting, and ceramics there. So far I've made do with whatever materials I can use at home, air dry clay, textile scraps, I've even weaved using trash bags, and made some effective pieces out of garbage, I really believe in resourcefulness in art cause I see some people intimidated by sculpting because they think they need all these inaccessible and expensive tools and materials when you can use whatever stuff is lying around. That being said, the prospect of having access to the workshops and materials and being able to create on that next level is just so exciting. I really love the way you show your whole process and include all the mistakes you made along the way, because it makes me feel less overwhelmed about learning a whole new skill set. Really inspiring stuff!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Good luck with your education! I wish I had a teacher. Trial and error is my teacher for now.

Wit the lathe. Keep the steady as close to the wood as possible. It limits the chance of the chisels kicking under the wood when turning and also gives you much more control. maintain both hands above the chisel. Cheap chisels work great if sharpened correctly. Lathe work can be a lot of fun

I've been watching your videos for months! Got my first bronze melting setup! Learning so much from you, and so encouraged by how you arent afraid to fail at a project. It's going to be such a fun hobby for me.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

That’s awesome. Be safe but don’t be afraid to fail.

Love that you have shown all the little issues and obstacles and how you overcame them.

it's great that you appreciate how difficult this process would have been 3000 B.C.

Great video! I've just started pouring a week ago and a sword is my end goal, thanks for all the tips and do-nots!

Hey, I have a partial answer to how ancients may have cut the sprew or however you spell it. I can’t post links here but the title of the video is “casting a Bronze Age winged axe” In the video, he simply knocks the sprew off

There is a plunge router type holder for Dremels, it is made of plastic and doesn't cost much but it works really well. If you use that and a fluted carbide endmill you can get perfectly vertical edges. I use this set up for doing inlays and have had this system for a couple of years

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

Sounds like what I need. Thanks!

@mevk1

5 ай бұрын

Routers have same plunge capabilities and larger motors removes more wood. Routers do for wood what milling machines do for metal. With jigs and a router you can make most anything out of wood. At lower speeds I have even used a router to occasionally mill small amount of aluminum with small carbide cutting bits. @@lundgrenbronzestudios

@calicamo1

5 ай бұрын

Your patience is unbelievable. Great detailing!

I like that you’re explicit on things you try to

Great job! Your work is the best!

Love it! ❤ you should be proud about it! You worked so hard. Bravo!👏

Admire your persistence and determination. Came out very good.

Nice one Lucas, hugely inspiring as always. Love how you include everything … the good, the bad and the ugly. As a student I learn much from you by the way you including rectifying mistakes and re-pours. Maybe one day when I try larger castings I remember what you have shown so I have less failures in my future endeavours. Thanks for the fascinating content … Nick

Superb build and video

when I made swords and knives I first started by making a wooden sword or knife. I used old hardwood flooring planks as a base. I actually had people buying the wood swords and knives as well as the steel swords and knives.

Good on u guy!!! Keep up the work! Props!

Good work my friend...

thank you for sharing

Beautiful and tnx

Very nice!!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

😆

For the trinity symbol.. I went to a dentist.. and they ordered some very fine assorted bits. Makes amazingly fine detail

That's awesome.. Great work once again! Thinking you should sell that to me also..lol

Good work, man. I noted that you do not have vents at the tip in vertical casting. It is possible to get good results in vertical by venting at a few points. The same applies to horizontal

Nice to see the progress you made throughout the video and what you've learned. Something to keep in mind if you would make more bronze swords in the future is that historical examples are often surprisingly light ranging between 0.5 to 1 kg even for the bigger swords in the spectrum. Another thing you might want to consider would be to pin the edge with a bronze hammer rather then a modern steel hammer. In any case great video!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

I would like to hold a real sword to feel what they are like. I don’t know how they would make them so light!

@ahab145

5 ай бұрын

@lundgrenbronzestudios there are some modern makers that make faithful reproduction of bronze swords like neil burridge (he even got a great KZread channel) You can also take a look at Museum's website to see weights and measurements, for that I'd recommend the British museum as they often include those together with other helpful descriptions but other museums do a good job too most of the time. One thing I know is that sometimes, especially on earlier swords they were cast from the tip of the blade down. Apparently that would help with getting more detailed on the handle as metal don't need to flow quickly from there but I don't fully understand that part as I don't do casting myself, that might make more sense to you though

@Atanar89

5 ай бұрын

@@ahab145 Do you remember where you got the information of the tip-cast sword from? Because I know exactly one stone sword mould (with 4 sides) and the mould from the tip was appearently only used once and then made unusable.

@ahab145

5 ай бұрын

@@Atanar89 I've heard it on Neil burridge's channel, specifically on his 4th episode at around 5:35 minutes

Showing your process is definitely the way to go. Very interesting video! I like how you designed it! P.S. I got my metal melter for Christmas. I haven't used it yet. But my first step should be a test fire, right? With just an empty crucible? What should the gas be set to?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

Temper your crucible in the oven at 400° give or take for a hour or so first. Then it should be ready to melt things with. I typically run my propane with a pressure meter and run it between 10-20 PSI. Lower for things like aluminum and higher for bronze. You’ll have to get to know your furnace a bit. Have fun be safe!

Looks great!! How many hours did you have in the finishing portion? A lot of work. 😊

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

Not even a clue but many hours I know that.

Casting has fascinated me since junior-high shop class when we poured (not sure of the right term here) "displacement" castings using styrofoam left in the mold. Are the inclusions from air bubbles that get trapped or possibly by drafting in air as it cools?

Not sure what they are called, but I've seen tubers use some special chunky carbide disk-like cutters to gouge out large areas of wood quickly. I use a band saw to remove big chucks of wood quickly. Saw or router with jig(s) makes precise. That set of carbide cutters you have should be great for hand milling of bronze. Coincidentally, I used one last week with my HF "dremel" for the first time working on my car's exhaust system to remove a surprising amount of mild steel. Maybe try slower speeds for better control. Also, burring bits come in two varieties single cut for softer metal and double cut for steels, however I only had a single cut bit, and it worked fine in mild steel at low rpm. Just a guess but maybe try a double cut bit for better control. I did notice that bit bounced a lot on metal's hardened outer thin edges, and bit cut smoother on clean thicker inner metal? Bronze as cast may have a thin outer layer that is harder than rest of casting? More experimentation needed. Farm tuber cast a huge cannon using vertical casting -others swear by horizontal. I like your combo method. a less turbulent fill, but still using advantages of gravity (very smooth). Remember seeing another tuber who travels the county and lets participants make, mold and vertically cast swords, replicating how it was done in the bronze age. Both your swords are beautiful and should be displayed proudly on your mantel !!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah I saw that guy cast that cannon. That was a big job. I’d still like to make one some day. He had a metal lathe to really clean it up nice. Maybe some day I will get one.

spear next !

So beautiful 🥰🥰🥰🥰 👍

A couple questions from a guy who knows nothing about casting. 1) Could you have done a vertical pour from the tip to reduce pressure since the bulk of the metal, which is in the handle, would be down low? It would have meant more cleanup, but still. 2) What do you estimate the total weight of the metal needed for the sword was? Thanks

He wasn't bitter that she had moved on but from the radish.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

I don’t understand that one.

Excellent job. How many pounds of bronze did you use on this pore? Just out of curiosity, what state do you live in?? It always looks cold:)

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

The blade was 4lbs 3oz but I think I melted around 9 lbs and just poured the rest into an ingot mold. I live in Minnesota. Yeah. It’s cold a lot.

Dont forget them hash tags too in the description, sure that will help the algorithms too!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

You think hash tags make a difference? I don’t know that I’ve ever used them.

You can make an oval on a lathe but you need to use two centres so the finished cuts are off centre and you cut a longer diameter circle on opposite sides. You can be certain the old timers knew all the tricks, casting hundreds of swords to outfit an army you can garauntee they cast them the way you did. Bronze is as hard as steel but not as tough, that was the only reason people moved on to using steel. The iron and bronze age overlapped a lot its likely that iron chisels were used long before anyone found a way of making enough iron for weapons Very cool project, Something tells me that like blacksmithing the two most expensive parts of the hobby are the metal and the fuel to heat it up.....

@TalRohan

5 ай бұрын

and happy new year

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

That’s a clever trick with the lathe. I would have never thought of that!

@TalRohan

5 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios it s easier if you do four at once but just screwing your work piece to a four by four gives you the same sort of effect ...cut one side turn it over and do the other ....vibrates a bit so its not for the feint hearted

21:28 engraving chisels

"It worked better in my mind than it did in reality." Yeah. I know that technique. 😉

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

😆

@KingfishStevens-di9ji

4 ай бұрын

As one learns techniques and becomes proficient, that goes away and what you create will exceed your initial vision.

@freemanmetalworks1698

4 ай бұрын

Somedays, I'm just happy that I didn't set myself on fire. 😏@@KingfishStevens-di9ji

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Looks great - have you filmed chopping a watermelon in half with it yet?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

Haha. No. Last time my view rate dropped when I cut stuff so I figured most people just want to see the finished product and that’s it.

One thing to remember when making replica tools and especially weapons, like your Harbor Freight chisels they were mass produced and only as good as they needed to be to get the job done. If your workshop was casting 100 swords a day, for a war then all of the pits and scratches would not have mattered. As long as it wouldn't break in battle that's all that mattered. Todd Cutler (link below) has a great video on the topic. As he says, if he made his replicas to actual medieval standards he wouldn't be able to sell even one. We have gotten so used to machined mass produced items that we cant comprehend the quality of hand mass produced products. kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6Zsxc-Ohd2TnZs.htmlsi=LDIwFKGbwVepzMkn

@lundgrenbronzestudios

2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Can you try to make the sword of Achilles

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

I could. That’s a pretty detailed design.

@mevk1

5 ай бұрын

You still could spruce it up with jewels, carving, etc...@@lundgrenbronzestudios

Walio how about using foam???

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

I’ve never tried but maybe it would work.

Try mixing your paint. Half paint, half paint thinner.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

4 ай бұрын

For what?

Archaelologist with a specialisation in European Bronze Age here: The swords you posted that look like really "heavy and bulky" hilts are actually cast onto the blade with a hollow core. Edit: They wighted about 800-1000 grams, your sword is a mighty chonker. And ChatGPT lied to you, the blades have for example 1,4 cm thickness at the heft (at 4,1 cm width).

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

Fascinating! I’d love to hold a real bronze sword to get a feel for it. I didn’t know the handles had a hollow core. Have you written a book about these types of swords?

@mevk1

5 ай бұрын

If you have seen recent developments in golfing driver's equipment it appears they drill several large holes into the driver heads and have various weights to add if needed. This allows for precise club-head weighting based on golfer's strength for maximum distance - weighting system also compensates for hooking and slicing tendencies. @@lundgrenbronzestudios

@Atanar89

5 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios I don't publish, but I have a lot of literature and pictures on hand I can send your way (most of it german though, but there are solutions furtunately).

you ever thought about making tiffany bronze lamp bases hhh

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

I’m not really sure what that is but I would like to make a lamp.

@mevk1

5 ай бұрын

Genuine tiffany lamps made by Tiffany and Company(still a dynamic business) about 100 years ago have sold for a million dollars. The knock offs today still very nice, sell for a couple hundy. Stained glass another cool craft really makes the lamps pop. @@lundgrenbronzestudios

Where the balance point on that wooden blade was, was good. However once its bronze, that bronze handle is going to be titan heavy and it'll upset the balance towards the rear. I'm paused at 6:55 so lets see if I'm right eh? (Proceeds to watch.) No update on the outcome other than appearance? C'mon bro. At least display the balance and chop few things. For science!

when using AI, just remember, it lies, it lies a lot and it doesn't know it is lying! It wants to give you an answer and so it will, be it a true answer or a false, it will give an answer. In this case, it probably wasn't lying, but just something to be aware of!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

5 ай бұрын

I had a comment earlier from a guy who seemed to know what he is talking about who said chat GPT lied to me. Haha.

I am guessing that steel ball peen hammers didn’t exist back then. Perhaps the ancient makers used hard stones?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

4 ай бұрын

They probably used bronze hammers.

try an aluminum copper bronze 10% aluminum 90% copper

@lundgrenbronzestudios

2 ай бұрын

That’s one of the strongest bronzes.

@haylspa

2 ай бұрын

and it's more Gold color then normal Bronze or Brass.. you can also still work harden it, and cryo treat @@lundgrenbronzestudios