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| A friend asked me if I could forge her a letter opener shaped like a bird, I thought about it and decided that casting one would be better. Its aluminum so the blade will wear faster, but its a letter opener not a butcher knife so it will be OK as long as she doesn't open all the junk mail. | A friend asked me if I could forge her a letter opener shaped like a bird, I thought about it and decided that casting one would be better. Its aluminum so the blade will wear faster, but its a letter opener not a butcher knife so it will be OK as long as she doesn't open all the junk mail. | ||
| - | I started by creating a model in Fusion 360 | + | I started by creating a model in Fusion 360\\ |
| - | {{:bird1.jpg?200 |Fusion 360 Model}} | + | {{:bird1.jpg?200|Fusion 360 Model}}\\ |
| - | Then bought some castable wax filament for the 3D printer and printed the model. This process took a LONG time to get the setting close enough to work for me. | + | Then bought some castable wax filament for the 3D printer and printed the model. This process took a LONG time to get the setting close enough to work for me.\\ |
| - | {{:bird2.jpg?200 |Wax Print}} | + | {{:bird2.jpg?200|Wax Print}}\\ |
| - | Then I sanded and cleaned up the print and tried to make a plaster of paris mold. Making the mold worked fine, but melting / burning the wax out caused it to fail... | + | Then I sanded and cleaned up the print and tried to make a plaster of paris mold. Making the mold worked fine, but melting / burning the wax out caused it to fail...\\ |
| - | {{:bird2a.jpg?200 |Failed plaster}} | + | {{:bird2a.jpg?200 |Failed plaster}}\\ |
| So I printed another one, sanded and cleaned it up, then with the help of Bob Sinclair, we created an investment mold and baked the wax out for 12 hours in his oven... | So I printed another one, sanded and cleaned it up, then with the help of Bob Sinclair, we created an investment mold and baked the wax out for 12 hours in his oven... | ||
| {{:bird3a.jpg?200 |pic here}} | {{:bird3a.jpg?200 |pic here}} | ||
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