I thought this video was great and ordered a coin. Got it the other day and was impressed with how well they turned out. More detail than I was expecting. Great job!

Love the video, and love your editing. Very educational and entertaining. Great job as usual. 😊

Your creativity and ingenuity never cease to amaze me! They look great!

“Best two out of three?” Had me laughing 😂 I really enjoy your videos, you have a lot of perseverance when you face adversity and I can appreciate that. Keep up the great work.

I think the patina coin looks the best. The lost wax turned out really good. It's still amazes me how some people are so blind to the evidence to events taken place. I really like how you put this video together!!

Love your vids. You might just have gotten me inspired enough to try casting myself!

Hilarious. These coins are awesome. Love how the lost wax ones came out. You really should do a statue of your hand without crickets!!

Quality as always! Love your work and channel!

I think this is your funniest by far. I love the editing.

I love your casting videos man, especially the lost organics experiments.

I love the humor.

The editing for this video was a lot of fun to watch. Thank you

This is the first of your videos that I've come across. Any time I watch something like this, its more about learning the craft then the content. I've been melting silver and copper for just a little over a year now. I look forward to watching and learning from you. Thank you for the great video and showing me how you make a sprue tree. 😊

Wow, you really nailed it with those coins! I also love the patina version, it's gorgeous! You had me laughing with all those small in between video's of the presidents 😂 it's a real fun video to watch en very interesting to see how you make all that stuff. Hope to be back at it very soon too. Shed is almost done, but have to do some works on the outside to keep water away and in my watertank 😂😂 Have a great weekend buddy 👊🏻

Awesome video, well done!!!

Loved this comparison of different casting methods and it surprised me how good it turned out 👍 Greetings from Denmark.

I really enjoy your videos. I've learned a lot from you. I do sand casting but haven't tried lost wax. I'm really anxious to try the lost wax. I think the patina coin looks great. Keep up the good work!

Your editing was on point, bravo 👏

Super cool! The patina ones look the best.

I LOVE the ones with the patina. Ironically, it makes them look like actual presidential inaugural medals! Great job on these!!!

Nicely done. I have had a lot of success casting coins from cheap masters I buy online and packing them in delft clay for the molds.

How fun! They look great.👍

This really shows the difference in the detail you get with investment casting vs. sand casting. Keep up the good work.

This was a really funny video. They way you cut in the clips was great!

Very cool , always enjoy your videos.

I was wondering how you were going to get the heads from both coins onto your casting - then you showed us TWO ways of doing it. Exceeded my expectations on all fronts! Thanks for this great video!!

Love the videos, and love the way you did this one, truly classy IMO. Those with the patina turned out amazing, and as always great work. FOR REAL! REGARDLESS OF YOU STANCE, GO VOTE WHEN THE TIME COMES.

Great video yet again!!

Cool coins, good job!

From Vietnam, really enjoy your editing.

I am actually surprised how well the sand casting turned out. I know it captures the print lines of stuff I have casted, but I didn't think it would do the fine detail of a coin like that. Thanks for sharing the process.

Love your video! Patina is my favorite! :)

Thanks for making a comedic political video!!

Fun project with awesome results!! !Great video as Always!!! Melt Happy Pour Safe My Friend!!! 🤙🤘🤟😎💚

Again great video, love your commentary as always, as I'm from UK the politics don't affect me, but would love one of these, so I'm in it to hopefully win it.

Very professional on all aspects -congrats again! If I win promise to send me one of those amazing patina/lost-wax versions.

The edits are amazing lmao

I love the presidential clips! very entertaining.

15:44 - Very nice work. However the date range on the DJT coin really should have been 2017-2029. Also acceptable would be '45,46,47'. ;)

Great job.

Great video!

Great video and your other video about the nine things you didn't know also - the only thing I would recommend is for your new ultrasonic that you don't place a heavy tree on the bottom but find a way to hang it that will give it much more efficiency

Another great video

Very informative!

Great video.

A few thoughts on your processes With the ultrasonic cleaner, cut the coins off first then do them, it can take a few cycles and too many things in the bath at once can make it slower, so move the bits around between cycles. Also the liquid they're submerged in makes a big difference to the ability to remove things. For the silica acidic solutions work well, and can also help remove oxidation (I've not experimented enough with various things to give exact specifics on what's best, there's a bunch of commercial solutions that you can get specifically for different tasks, the msds sheets usually give up what's actually active in them to give ideas if you want to make your own) When removing junk from the coins in the cleaner, you'll get a buildup of silt on the bottom of the cleaner pretty fast and that quickly impacts the performance of the sonic waves. So I always use water in the cleaner, then put the items into a glass jar that has the actual cleaning solution in, the waves go right through glass nicely, and the silt is easier to remove and doesn't make messy work as can literally just pour liquid into another jar and continue. For your moulding technique, maybe consider using the fancy Castaldo rubber sheets (others brands are out there, but castaldo is most available in the UK and I think US) there's some super cheap no name rubber strips I get from CousinsUK that's £11 a kilo, called "Natural rubber Strips, Far East" which is considerably cheaper and for my method of using it, works great. To use those sheets you're supposed to waste a ton of money on a super overpriced heat press that has hot plate on either side that clamps down with a screw to make it squish, namely a Vulcanizer. Mould wise, you cut pieces to fit the mould, lay a few sheets down, put your item in then sheets on top, you can add dimples n shit and a mould release so it's an instant two part mould, I'm lazy and enjoy cutting them tho. Normally, you'd throw that into the vulcanizer and Cook it for a period of time. Personally, I can't afford to blow money on toys like that, so I made an alternative method that works good for me :) Take two sheets of steel, cut them to fit over the mpukd frame, leaving an inch or two past the edges of the frame. You then drill in holes around those edges. How big the frame is defines how many you want. You can use sandcasting to make hour frames from wood, then use belt sander to make top and bottom very flat. For use, you put the filled mould frame on the bottom sheet, (make sure there's rubber a few mm at least above the level of the mould) and put the other sheet on top. Then push your bolts in (you could just weld them in place I guess) and use nuts to tighten down the plate. You want it pretty tight on all sides, I follow engine block tightening patterns, to balance out the pressure and don't fully tighten on first time, then use a ratchet to crank them down nice and hard (you'll have to get the feel for how much is needed, but tbh I usually go all the way as hard as I can, its not needed to, I just like to cos I'm lazy lol) Now, to make the rubber cure, you chuck it into a preheated kiln, and leave it there resting at a period of time and temperature you'll have to work out yourself. Go by guidelines at first, then adjust to balance, it'll take a little trial and error for each rubber type. If you leave it too long it absolutely will turn to foul smelling black gunk, so I usually err on side of caution and do them fairly short times. Once its done, I'm lazy and just drop it in a bucket of water to cool off quickly, and then unbolt and remove the mould then cut cut cut! If you do give that method a go for fun, I recommend using the smallest mould frame size you can bother with to start so minimising waste and using shit you don't care about in case of mush. Oh, and drill a hole in the side of the mould frame, so the rubber has somewhere else to escape, it'll help a lot. And when putting object in the frame, add a object to act as a sprue that's not gonna get pushed out the hole, but lining up to it, it'll not be visible immediately, but it'll be right next to the hole and make a perfect injection spot. When injecting wax, I buy a LOAD of disposable syringes at a time, ones appropriately sized for the stuff I'm making so I'm not taking up too much wax. I use a hot pot filled with water, and the wax in a container that rests inside it and taller it (balance of water to wax as it'll float if too light) then play with setting to get wax right temp (trick with dimmer switch to fine tune heat works here too) I'll then just quickly suck up the needed volume and inject. They will break eventually, after 20-50 uses, sometimes more, so just ditch them when they break and get a new one, they're cheap consumables for me. When injecting, I use pieces of wood with the same style as the metal sheets, and use bolts with wing nuts to hand tighten to right pressure so I can quickly inject, let cool for a few seconds then remove and add next mould (I usually make 3+ so there's time for each preceding one to fully cool so the part can be removed as I loop to the start) I find this to work as well as professional setups. A lot of pros use either their bare hands to hold in place, or just two sheets help together by hand force alone, but after getting molten wax on my hands and body a few times I gave up learning that way and use the wood press thingy. With your mould making for regular silicone. Consider you can use sticy wax to stick the sprue to the thing, and use wire through a hole in the sprue to dangle it in the cup then add all the silicone in at once :) For polishing, consider using diamond polishing compounds, they're fairly cheap and you don't need to use much on each Spinny fluff ball, they'll let you get mirror finish pretty quickly. Just use the ultrasonic and degreaser, then quick rinse in water to clean off the previous gunk before going onto a finer grit Hope these tips come in useful and loving your progress and awesome level of finished products man, you're getting more awesome every video!

Great work.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

You are the winner! Email me your address at lund1060@gmail.com and I will send you your coin.

Priceless. Either you or one your whiny viewers turned me into KZread. I got another badge of honor from these clowns. Love it!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

Ha! It sure wasn’t me. It must have been one of my whiny viewers. Although based on how many people have unsubscribed from this, what I thought was pretty middle of the road video, I’m surprised there are any whiny ones left.

@jagboy69

7 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios I was pretty sure it wasn't you, but I tried to give the whiners the benefit of the doubt which is more than they ever give us. Don't feel too bad, I got hammered on my build the wall short video. The mistake I made was using my channel to sub to OTHER channels and I post from the same account! Shadow banning is very real, I'm just sticking around for the class action lawsuit some day. lol.. F-YT

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

@@jagboy69 yep. I have two accounts each in different emails. But they track everything so if they wanted to hammer me they could. This channel I try to keep “non political”. I’ve been wanting to make a Tesla emblem and and “transitioning” one of my cars to an electric car. Not sure how that would go over.

@jagboy69

7 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios Buddy, you can drive 50 electric cars and you won't make a bit of difference against the 40thousand gallons of jet fuel I burn a year flying just a couple people around. People are slowly waking up to the electric car lie. It may work for some people, but not for most. It's a failure on all fronts. If you do buy a tesla, WAIT a little longer, the market if falling out the bottom right now. You'll save thousands.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

@@jagboy69 haha. Oh I would never buy one. I live in Minnesota and it gets cold. Those batteries would be such low power so fast. And I live where people protest mining all the time and still want electric cars that take a ton of mineral resources.

Big fan here! I would love to win that coin!

That is awesome ! Making coins is what I really want to try. You make it look easy but I know it isn't.

As every video its great to watch, especially that you show your try and error.

‼️you are a #metalcasting Rockstar‼️ I love your work… 👏

I really enjoy the interspersed presidential comments

Who'd have thought he'd need mold release to cast teflon don

I like the home brew wax injector but maybe not sophisticated enough. I found it more difficult to get a complete wax without air bubbles than to get a complete bronze casting - sometimes you actually need better venting for wax than for metal since wax has higher viscosity, less weight and more surface tension than metal, maybe...?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

You are right. I actually got more bubbles when trying to use the injection. But pouring it seemed to work better.

This was a great idea! I love the idea of a trump / biden coin. You always have great videos.

I really appreciate the step by step instructions! Do you think you could make a video going over all of your tools/machines with a monetary break down? I'd like to start casting myself and I'm curious how much money I need to set aside. Thanks!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

I have a video called “is metal casting profitable”. Or something like that. I’m still working on it. But I will go over costs and if selling this stuff is profitable.

Pretty cool

Patina one looks the best.

I love your videos... I hope you don't mind me asking, but what type of wax do you use?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

4 ай бұрын

I use microcrystalline wax.

@RonR2

4 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios Thanks! I make miniatures and your videos have inspired me to try some casting, keep up the great work!

Nice

About a 2 years ago I started sand casting coins. The past 2 Veterans Day I’ve made coins for veterans in the branch of the military that they served in and gave them to them. All of them were touched and one even came to my house to learn how I made them. I let him make his own challenge coins.

You ever look into using petrobond? That being said I was in a commercial foundry; the prices petrobond fetches these days is crazy. Though I remember as a kid being surprised that the bronze picked up my fingerprints off of the wax profiles used to radius the bottom of our runners. You've got that old school investment down! For ceramic shell are you using a premix like R&R's suspend-a-slurry or the Remet approach?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

Yes I do like petrobond. As a matter of fact I used it in this video. I use 190 mesh. Picks up detail pretty well but lost wax is hard to beat. I to use R&R suspenda slurry but I’m more of a fan of investment.

A very god video 😁👍

I need 1 of them coins

Where do you get the copper you use to make the bronze? Ive got 50 pounds of brass, but I'm not a fan of the zinc fumes and want to switch to bronze, just haven't figured out the best way to get it

@noviceartisan

7 ай бұрын

You can get copper from the right scrapyard, old motors, copper wire after removing plastics even recycle old coins made of bronze if that's your end goal xD

@mevk1

7 ай бұрын

Back in the day you could walk in your local non-ferrous foundry and they'd sell you cut up gates, risers etc. The few I visited usually had good selection of clean alloys at fair prices, and if not too busy were happy to answer any questions, though one unscrupulous foundryman sold me some silicon bronze contaminated with lead. Today with all the safety litigation concerns it may be best to call first, if you can find one.

You did an excellent job on the video. I love how you added snippets of the candidates through the video. That was quite funny. I was giggling the whole time! The idea of coins is a really good one. Even if you wanted to do other characters or animals, etc. Now you've had practice. It can only get easier from here.

I saw some things in this video I thought you might appreciate, How was it made? Lost-wax bronze casting | V&A Victoria and Albert Museum

Hi! Do you use factory made silicon bronze alloy or do you smelt on your own ?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

Both. I make my own sometimes but I also buy silicon bronze.

@priyamtiwari5992

7 ай бұрын

Which grades of copper and silicon do you use and which flux?

I want a coin!!!

i love bronze

Very nice!

🤙👍

great use of comments from both of the... well we'll go with presidents.

Patina coin all the way. 😁

Honestly i thought this was remarkable i purchased 2 of them

If I don't win one, I may like to buy one.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

You may I have an Etsy link. But you can wait to see if you win too. lundgrenbronze.etsy.com/listing/1602290767

@user-ml1fr8kk4c

7 ай бұрын

Sold out. Maybe next time.@@lundgrenbronzestudios

Are you selling any?

@lundgrenbronzestudios

4 ай бұрын

I just posted a few to my Etsy store lundgrenbronze.etsy.com/listing/1602290767

Please can i have one of the coins

If U are not sure what to vote do this...

oh god not election season again. Also to everyone saying biden is old, they're both old. A difference of 2 years out of 80 is nothing.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

6 ай бұрын

Age and aged are two different things. Some have dementia and others don’t.

@biged621

6 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios True but really its just partisan blather and another excuse for some news expert to plug a book. Trump supporters will say biden has dementia and vice versa. All I'm saying is I wish 4 years passed a little slower. Dont take any of this as me not liking your castings though. They are genuinely awesome.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. Yeah they are both as old as dirt but man Biden’s brain just isn’t what it used to be. Trumps brain is still what it always was. Weather you like what’s in his brain is a whole other question. They say videos should match what’s trending but the Trump Biden theme doesn’t seem to get any more traffic to my videos.

Politics are bad for business IMO

@jagboy69

7 ай бұрын

Tell that to the liberal shitheads at starschmucks. Their coffee always tastes burnt to me anyways.

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

Politics are big business.

@jagboy69

7 ай бұрын

@@lundgrenbronzestudios Yup.. these clowns ALL walk away from elected positions stupid rich. Something wrong with this picture.

Hey! - there's a subscription I no longer want. You can keep your insurrection coinage, and your click-trolling content - I'm out. I have no interest in every aspect of life being poisoned by politics and partisan division.

@GoldMugu

7 ай бұрын

Ok boomer

@TurdFergusen

7 ай бұрын

Translation: I only live in thought bubbles

@joshpoole6056

7 ай бұрын

It's not an airport, no need to announce your departure drama queen.

@mevk1

7 ай бұрын

Don't be ignorant. Video was unbiased, humorous, and intelligent. Motivationally a call to action - Go Vote - You make the Call.

@jagboy69

7 ай бұрын

Whhhaaaa... You would be happier living in some armpit 3rd world 💩hole. Wanna a free one way ticket?? I'm buying!

UNSUBSCRIBED!

@lundgrenbronzestudios

7 ай бұрын

Well you don’t get to be in the contest then.

@jagboy69

7 ай бұрын

​@@lundgrenbronzestudiosAlways an orange man bad in the crowd. Hope they are enjoying this record inflation THEY caused.