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Cool! Let's see what else we can melt!
Jun. 14th, 2008 11:23 pmToday was not merely awesome, but in fact was Officially Awesome, under clause 462.1c of the 1997 Ypres Treaty drafting of the International Awesomeness Code, which in part states that "...any day which involves molten metal shall receive automatic 'awesome in the second degree' status" [emphasis mine]. You may envy me now.
Actually, I didn't do any direct work with the molten metal itself, but the rules still apply. This afternoon,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rafaela and I stopped by the home of lbitw and jenphalian, in the back shed of which they and some of the craftier/burlier SCA members were using sand casting methods to forge metal tokens for the upcoming Glenn Linn War Camp event. It's a bit of a complex process with several separate steps, but by the time we'd gotten there, they had it down to a fairly tight routine, down to the POURING OF MOLTEN ALUMINUM [emphasis mine], which I watched with (a) great interest and (b) a great deal of distance between me and it. Cool beyond measure.
I was originally put to the task of grinding the pointy bits when I first arrived, but they took pity on me when they noticed my abject terror regarding the use of power tools. (Really, I was fine until I got to the point of "Holy bugcrumpets, there are flecks of metal flying toward my eyes! Aiee!") From there, I was moved to the slightly more grueling but much safer position of "sand slave," which involved pounding the now-baked sand that was used in the last round of castings back into granules for further usage, a job which I was assured was actually essential and not cause for feeling like the wuss that I am and always shall be. Anna arrived late, and was put to the task to cuttingn threading and tying the yarn, which I helped for a while on as well.
After that, there were cheeseburgers, and jars of homemade jam that mysteriously materialized in my car, and two games of the Lord of the Rings cooperative board game that Nate, Jason and I nearly beat but choked on both times. A damned, damned good day. Awesome. Officially.
Actually, I didn't do any direct work with the molten metal itself, but the rules still apply. This afternoon,
rafaela and I stopped by the home of lbitw and jenphalian, in the back shed of which they and some of the craftier/burlier SCA members were using sand casting methods to forge metal tokens for the upcoming Glenn Linn War Camp event. It's a bit of a complex process with several separate steps, but by the time we'd gotten there, they had it down to a fairly tight routine, down to the POURING OF MOLTEN ALUMINUM [emphasis mine], which I watched with (a) great interest and (b) a great deal of distance between me and it. Cool beyond measure.I was originally put to the task of grinding the pointy bits when I first arrived, but they took pity on me when they noticed my abject terror regarding the use of power tools. (Really, I was fine until I got to the point of "Holy bugcrumpets, there are flecks of metal flying toward my eyes! Aiee!") From there, I was moved to the slightly more grueling but much safer position of "sand slave," which involved pounding the now-baked sand that was used in the last round of castings back into granules for further usage, a job which I was assured was actually essential and not cause for feeling like the wuss that I am and always shall be. Anna arrived late, and was put to the task to cuttingn threading and tying the yarn, which I helped for a while on as well.
After that, there were cheeseburgers, and jars of homemade jam that mysteriously materialized in my car, and two games of the Lord of the Rings cooperative board game that Nate, Jason and I nearly beat but choked on both times. A damned, damned good day. Awesome. Officially.
