I found some native copper and I plan to collect more. How can I cast this copper? I was thinking like a keychain....pendant? What should i make the mold out of?what do I put the copper in, to put it in a fire to melt it? thanks
Cookware Crockery Money, Weapons, Art, Ceremony, Decorations, Tools, Furniture ,Mirror ..... a million First Bronze Age, from the Shang to the Han dynasties, centered at the Cult of the Dead two.the Second Bronze Age the Han dynasty centered at the Celebration of the Living. The creation of bronze by way of blending copper and tin was once an situated train by way of approximately 1500 BC in the course of the Eurasian landmass. By then tin ores and copper ores had been being smelted in combination to provide what was once identified as a superb sort of copper-extra fluid whilst scorching and tougher whilst bloodless. Bronze was once less difficult to forged than copper and produced higher equipment, guns, and artwork.
Our ancient ancestors made crucibles of iron, or lead, materials with higher melting points than copper. Then they took clay, and would carve a hollow cast of what they were trying to make (a sword, an axe, a shovel). If they needed a more three-dimensional object, like a bowl, they'd take a piece of clay, hollowed out one cast on each side, then pushed them back together. Put the copper in the crucible, fire it up, melt it down, pour it into your mold, let it cool. However, I also have to tell you that they didn't often bother to cast anything smaller than a shovel. Copper is so malleable that it's faster, easier, and less costly to just get out a good hammer and a flat or rounded stone to beat it against. No one would *ever* cast a pendant out of copper. The most common reason to cast copper wasn't actually to cast it directly into what object you wanted, but rather to take smaller pieces and cast them into one larger piece, from there you could hammer out what it was that you wanted.
