HOW TO SAND CAST A SILVER ARROWHEAD!! DIY!!

In this video I give a brief tutorial on sand casting!
Featuring a beautiful arrowhead!

[@bamboo979]

awesome.

[@citizen8650]

awesome, no pretence and to the point, very well done sir.

[@user-pz9yz8us9c]

Excelente trabajo..

[@mcartandtool6580]

gracias!

[@lovelore]

Excellent work

[@mcartandtool6580]

Thank you!

[@daveorbilleemildbrandt9902]

I always wondered how casting was done. Neat!

[@willstreasures7986]

Very cool method. I recently have gotten into pouring and have done a few arrowheads.

[@simonecoster8199]

So cool!

[@carlycox8634]

sick

[@lexiecox]

this is so cool!!

[@rhondajones1313]

Cool man. A nice one. If you want arrowheads give me a yell, I flint knap. I mainly use flintridge but I have so much flint from all over the country. You are doing really good. Thanks Jim

[@mcartandtool6580]

Thank you, I dabble in the flint knapping as well!

[@techdeck-lz2nc]

Either of you have any from missouri materials?? I'm interested

[@articjackal]

Nice work man.

[@danieldombai7267]

The incredible power of the powder 😂

[@vladimirkovacevic1656]

very cool

[@JericoHerculesProspectingLLC]

Very interesting

[@kasken6210]

im looking to do exactly that. perfect demo. this should have more views for sure. keep it up. ;)

[@mcartandtool6580]

Thank you! Glad I could help!

[@BassCharacter]

Nice video!

[@mcartandtool6580]

Thank you!

[@deeno313bababa]

Nice I’m gonna make one

[@mcartandtool6580]

Do it!

[@judithdandavis2206]

if i sent you the silver , what would you charge to poor one for me ? it would be in 99.9 from silver rounds .

[@Hadrada.]

That’s great and it kills vampires

[@mcartandtool6580]

Heck yeah it does!

[@scotts4134]

I'm new to sandcasting. Every time I fill the mold with the delft clay and pound it down, the clay will "split" open on the mold. Usually it splits in a different part of the mold, that I'm pounding. I hammering the clay in fairly hard. Is it possible I'm doing it too hard? I just can't understand what's causing this. When I turn the mold over, the bottom of the mold is nice and smooth. Can you please tell me what could be wrong? Thank you in advance.

[@mcartandtool6580]

Try not pressing down so hard or using a larger block to press, it took me several attempts to get my first successful pour so just keep trying stuff until it works! Good luck!

[@VanNessy97]

Where'd you get the first arrowhead?

[@mcartandtool6580]

My buddy’s uncle flint knapped it

[@victorlovecraft5390]

Okay now how do I embed gemstones on it?

[@mcartandtool6580]

Look up a video on flush setting or gypsy setting.

[@kevinfultz8756]

I keep getting voids like an air bubble right beside the fill hole. Any ideas on how to stop that?

[@mcartandtool6580]

Make sure you don’t have any loose sand in your mold, also try getting your metal hotter before you pour. and most importantly fill up your sprue (fill hole). The liquid metal in the sprue pushes down on the metal in the mold and helps force it in to small details. If you are only pouring just enough metal to make your item, the top, right by the sprue won’t be under any pressure. Hope this helps good luck!

[@frankfisher99]

try adding and air release channel, I would do that at the rear of the arrowhead and perhaps use that as an eyelet to strign the arrowhead as a pendant. I found that rleseaing air is just as important as getting the silver hot enough, to get a good cast without pockets.

[@joshawageorge2122]

Would you try to fire that ? Lol reusable and the same weight every time

[@mcartandtool6580]

You totally could! Might be a tad heavy though