Bawanna
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Well my second attempt at a bit more refined molten metal pouring ended in dismal failure.
Note to self, (Put a stick on the leg of the table so when the molten hot stuff flows all over it flows away and not into lap). Label this important!

I tried some fine ribbon. First I tried just pouring directly into the cuts, the stuff just poured right back out. I tried heating it warmer thinking it would pour more evenly but not such luck. It prefers to just blob.
So I took a page from my mentors handbook and built a little cardboard dam. It's ok to say dam in this instance as it's like something to hold water back, not the dam like when you get hot molten metal in your lap. That's bad and you get the ivory soap bar for that.
Any how he dam didn't work neither. Just poured too quickly, burned the wood a bit, no biggy but didn't stick. Made several attempts with both kinds of dam, the cardboard and the verbal type.


To top it all off, I said bug it (well that ain't what I said but along that line) came in for my nightly hour of MASH therapy and it's raining hard and the satellite ain't working. Not my night.
Next plan is to take out the center wood and make a wider ribbon. Might have to increase the height of the dam and melt more of the stuff to make sure I got enough.
A little more burning and it might end up with Antler.
Note to self, (Put a stick on the leg of the table so when the molten hot stuff flows all over it flows away and not into lap). Label this important!

I tried some fine ribbon. First I tried just pouring directly into the cuts, the stuff just poured right back out. I tried heating it warmer thinking it would pour more evenly but not such luck. It prefers to just blob.
So I took a page from my mentors handbook and built a little cardboard dam. It's ok to say dam in this instance as it's like something to hold water back, not the dam like when you get hot molten metal in your lap. That's bad and you get the ivory soap bar for that.
Any how he dam didn't work neither. Just poured too quickly, burned the wood a bit, no biggy but didn't stick. Made several attempts with both kinds of dam, the cardboard and the verbal type.


To top it all off, I said bug it (well that ain't what I said but along that line) came in for my nightly hour of MASH therapy and it's raining hard and the satellite ain't working. Not my night.
Next plan is to take out the center wood and make a wider ribbon. Might have to increase the height of the dam and melt more of the stuff to make sure I got enough.
A little more burning and it might end up with Antler.