they should be "Gypsy Bars"

@vynaltheworld4092

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely this

Laura, Hi. Your videos are always entertaining and educational and the out•takes are hilarious. Hope you’re feeling better. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the message Bill! Yes, the cold has passed and I’m much better now. I’m glad you are enjoying my videos! You and folks like you are exactly who I’m making them for and I’m so grateful to have awesome people to share this crazy hobby with!🥰🔥

I love them!!! 😍😍 this would be me if I was casting 😂

Awesome 👍

Love the concept of the ball grindstone. Easy moving and any angle that is convenient. Always the same result. Nicely done. Maybe some expensive very fine sand cold be used for the detail and the normal sand placed around the fine stuff. Often done that way in black sand. Take care and Better and Better !

Those turned out nice. Thanks for sharing.

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Hi James, thanks for the note and thanks for watching!

Very nice outcome

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Looks yummy!

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😋

Cool project. I want one!

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Yay! I will keep everyone updated on how I get along with making them… it may take 6 months or more but that’s product development for ya!

The dark chocolate is harder than the light chocolate and might mold better showing more detail. Just a thought and it tastes good also. Thanks for sharing.

It would have been fun detail taking bite out of one bar :D

You could've made a "lost chocolate" casting :)

This is one of my favorite casts you have posted. Love ya, kiddo!

Looks great. id have tried one with a bite out of it too.

Beautiful! So glad that you showed that you didn't eat sand chocolate, because I really bought it! 😅

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Oh no! Thanks so much for making it to the end of the video to see the truth 😉 I have to warn you that there will be more “eating” of things coming out of sand molds in the future… I guess I’m trying to engage with the “trolls” who would be looking for me to do something wrong lol 🤣

@CrudeButEfficient

4 ай бұрын

@@CastIronGypsyPlay with the trolls and eat what you want! 😁

Some candy bars have alternating words. I would do it with CIG in one block and CANDY in another block alternated throughout the bar. It would be pretty easy in CAD. Cool project.

Do you mind sharing what resin and ratio mixture you are using?

Looks great. I'm sure it could be arranged to have many different forms of chocolate from various parts of the world "donated" to the good cause of making metal candy bars. One thought (from somone that only knows the little bits of mold-making and casting from yours and WHF's videos), could you do a "lost wax" (or rather "lost chocolate") type molding?

An oil finish like on cast iron cookware would make this even more realistic looking

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

😮 you’re right, that’s a great suggestion!! When I make more I’ll have to have that be the finish, WAY more realistic!

Wow 🤩 😂

Just came here from Windy Harbour Foundry and subscribed x

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks so much! I hope you like what you see and are entertained ☺️

@buffplums

3 ай бұрын

@@CastIronGypsy yes mate it’s good to see these good skills still practiced

You did that in your last video!

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Your right! There was so much footage from the mold making process AND the iron pour that I decided instead of making one hour long video I’d split it into two shorter ones. Some people only want to watch the iron pour, and some people are more interested in the mold making. So I encourage viewers to watch what they want to, and if it’s both that’s fine!☺️

do you ever use reusable sand like pertobond? The filled in details might be your parting dust. when I make high detail 3d printed belt buckles in 150+ mesh petrobond the texture of the parting dust leaves a distinct pattern on the cast buckle unless i brush off 90% of it. Get a 3d printer, it revolutionized metal casting.

Now I guess if you wanted to make your own chocolate bars, all you would have to do is make silicone molds of your cast iron models and pour the melted chocolate into them.😁👍

I am so impressed with the detail. I would never have thought such fine details were achievable with resin/sand. I wonder what different sand types could do in the hands of a master (you ). I am specifically thinking of the White Sands of New Mexico. Anyway count me in for rubber feet. I love the look of cast iron. I am fasinated by the idea of a salt/vinegar/hydrogen peroxide patina But I am torn. I am a cast iron purist but I also love the ideas of a chocolate colored non-chocolate bar. Speaking of which did I see you munch on sandy chocolate? Cheers from Sandy Eggo, CA

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the message and for your patience with my late reply B!😉 Finer sand might pick up more detail… so many people are mentioning it I’ll have to see if I can source something like that!

SWEET! It seems like cast iron doesn't shrink like aluminum when it cools. Is that right?

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

I have to admit that I think there is a small amount of shrinkage with cast iron but I’m not sure how much. Maybe a Metallurgist can weigh in on that and help us out!😁

@bcbloc02

4 ай бұрын

@@CastIronGypsy I believe Aluminum shrinks 6-7% while Iron shrinks 2-3%

How did you end up with one of Nate's Ramming tools?! I often forget how strong Linocrue is, If my cope was that thin with silbond it would crack. That's some good stuff! are doing 2% or 1.5% resin. With silbond I switched to 3% from 4% becuase there was so much resin, it would stick too much to everything and I was losing detail.

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Hi David! Nate gave it to me🤩 at FIRE a few years ago and I love it so much! I am lucky enough that I don’t ram so much sand that LinoCure will give me a reaction like some of our other friends. I’ll have to look at my recipe page to give you the exact percentage… Congratulations on your latest cold iron pour success! I hope to make it up to Milwaukee some time to capture you and make a video!❤️🥶

@davidarnold2343

4 ай бұрын

@@CastIronGypsy Thats super cool! I still have his casting he gave me. I am doing my best to do Iron Pours quarterly. Our next iron pour will be in April. I am trying to draw interest from current members at the Milwaukee Makerspace. I want to have public events but it is going to take some convincing from the board of directors to approve non-members to be participating on the pour floor. I will find out if my proposal of a one week membership is approved. It's definitely an insurance issue. I hope to have updates for the next iron pour within the next few weeks.

Except for the pour you made the pourcess look accessible. The cast iron Hersheys bar is cute and I liked your "lovely" assistant (not meant to offend, just a gentle chuckle).

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

Hey Paul, thanks for your message! Just wait until you see the cast iron cookies!!🍪

@pauldevey8628

3 ай бұрын

Oh, delishio!

forbidden ferric food

Can you do anything about the molten iron viscosity, like "thin iron" for this one, "thick iron" for that one? Or you just take what you can get? I guess it's not really that thick anyway, but that stuff seemed kinda "runny", or perhaps I'm delusional? :). Maybe it's not a limiting factor. I guess the other bit, the granularity of the sand... OldFoundryMan put in a lot of work just on his "sand mill", big old machine. Maybe there's no other good way to do that, and so it's a choice to invest all the time and resources or not. Maybe... kitchen blender? 🙂

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for the message and for your patience with my late reply! The hotter the metal is the “thinner” it will flow. We can write in our molds if we need them to specifically be poured “hot” or “cold”. You’re right though, many times we just take what we can get! As for the sand “fineness”… as a hobby production it’s probably better for me to concentrate on having a better pattern than trying to mill the sand finer… and from what I’ve seen of how the sand wears away my spade bits and drill bits when I’m cutting in the gates and vents.. a blender blade wouldn’t last very long…🤷🏻‍♀️

The 3D printing will be significantly cheaper than the CNC milling route, the trick is going to be getting a 3D printer with enough resolution.

@CastIronGypsy

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! I have to first get a 3d file, that might be the biggest hurdle!😅

@sunshaker01

4 ай бұрын

@@CastIronGypsy The file might not be that hard, but I don't know enough about what is available, however I do follow a channel that does. Joshua De Lisle makes videos about making stuff, reviews tools and gadgets, specifically 3D printers (both filament and resin), Laser Engravers (which might also work), CNC Plasma cutters (which won't work), these are hobbyist size machines (which is exactly what you would be looking for). What you are looking for will be on this playlist kzread.info/head/PL1UcPGY9BPCjAIUMvr486Q4NBKoh1W1Hf He does mention the software he uses, but doesn't have a tutorial for it (but I'm sure you can find one somewhere).

Consider freezing the bar before making the mold.

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

Totally great idea Allen, thanks for the suggestion!😊

didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food? LOL

Hungry.

@CastIronGypsy

3 ай бұрын

I ate all the chocolate that wasn’t contaminated with chemicals!!😆🍫

Goodbye teeth for real this time