What better thing to work on this Canada Day weekend, but Maple Leaf rings!!
Here is a photo of the rings with the ‘sprues’ still attached. The sprue is where the wax flows out in the lost-wax process, and where the molten silver is poured into the one-off plaster cast. The sprue is clipped short after casting, and later needs to be sawn off, filed, and sanded.
These are the same rings you saw coming out of my rolling mill (in wax) in a previous posts:
And here are some that didn’t make it through the casting process :'(
So cutting sprues off the good ones, shaping and cleaning them up, is what I will be doing on Canada-Day weekend!
Can’t be all work and no play, though: I’ll be taking a drive to the Southshore this evening to visit with our friends, talented musician, writer, and sailor Tom Gallant and his wonderfully outrageous wife Lissa (read the story of their live-changing experience in Tom’s book A Hard Chance: Sailing Into the Heart of Love).
I really look forward to visiting with these marvelous friends! Hope you are having a great weekend, too.
