Mill and Cast

I am quite into watching blacksmith making sword. So I want to make a sword this week.

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Model the wax male mold

I downloaded a .stl file and the length of sword is about 24in, I scale down the sword,

but to mill the entire sword the thickness of sword will be smaller than 0.1in,

so I just mill the handle, but the thickness of handle is still really thin.

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MasterCam Setup

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setting up the MasterCam file.

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Milling using Intelitek

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The wax is perfectly milled.

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Pouring my oomoo mix.

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The left one is a successful pour. The right one has really high viscocity, because

the oomoo was stored in the venting hood, the low temperature in venting hood is really low.

I put the oomoo in the room temperature and it works good.

Casting my sword

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I pour the hydrostone into the mold, and wait for about 5min, and clamp two pieces together.

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The part is too slender, the edge just break when I tear apart the mold.

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