[Sca-cooks] casting

[Chass Brown]

A hammer press my friend is a drop hammer press for making coins :) tis 
something we made to see if we could and welp I kinda love the little thing. 
Just gotta find me a place to make me some Dies for my press now.

Chass of Rundel of Ansteorra aka of the SCA aka
Charinthalis Del Sans of the portable Chariot
Honorable Recruiter of the House of the Red Shark (Have you seen my Belaying 
Pin??)
Maison Du Corsaire Rouge
Muddeler of Mead, Ailment of Ale, Whiner of wine.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan li Rous" <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
Cc: <mark.s.harris at motorola.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] casting



> Their are sources for each of these given in my files. See the pewter-msg 
> file and the soapstone-msg files mentioned in the message you quoted.
>
> The source I personally use for the soapstone is in Canada. It costs 
> almost as much to ship the stone from Ontario to Texas as the stone costs. 
> Ironically, when I taught my class at Pennsic, the stone got shipped from 
> Ontario to Texas. Got cut up here and then got shipped back up to Pennsic, 
> not that far from Canada.
>
> The soapstone place has bent over backwards for me. At one time mailing me 
> the stone before the payment had arrived to make sure I had the stone for 
> my Gulf Wars class. The stone has been better and more consistent quality 
> than what I was getting from my local source. And even with the shipping, 
> cheaper.
>
> I buy the pewter in 8 pound bars which are already molded to be chopped 
> into three pieces and the place will do this if you ask nicely. Pewter is 
> a commodity so the price changes daily, but last time I bought the price 
> was under $5/pound for either of two alloys of lead-free pewter.
>
> Both the pewter and the soapstone sources I personally use are given in my 
> class handout. Unfortunately I can't find a copy here at home, but I 
> believe there is a copy on my machine at work. I will try to remember to 
> get that tomorrow and send it to you by email.
>
> What is a "hammer press"?
>
> Stefan
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas 
> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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