Aluminum casting ideas

Melt Down Your Aluminum Cans: People that make metalworking and metal casting their main hobby are going to find many things wrong with what I am showing you here. Ignore most of that and give this a try even if it comes out crappy. This is a low investment way to observe a lost…

Undercut is a concept furniture project that blends two materials - Mahogany wood and cast aluminum - to create new furniture fashion without using any connectors or additives.

DIY Aluminum Bronze. One of the Hardest Bronzes: For one of future projects I need some hard bronze, that's why I decided to make Aluminum Bronze. This bronze is one of the hardest!

Lost Foam Casting: In this project, I'll be showing a simple way to cast a raw model, of your desire, called "lost foam casting".Lost foam casting is based on styrofoam, as the material for your model. As an example, i'm going to make a small copy, of the instructable…

Hilla Shamia builds furniture combining cast aluminium and wood. Trained at the Holon Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Department, Hilla developed a unique technique that joins the materials of aluminum and wood.

This homemade metal foundry was made with a mixture of 50% plaster of paris and 50% sand, which are a good insulator and focus the heat in one central area.

Casting aluminum parts at home doesn't have to be difficult and it will take your DIY projects to the next level. We even lay out a few tips for setting up an aluminum foundry here

Melt Aluminum With a Hole in the Ground: I've been interested to try this design for use as a survivalist foundry for quite some time now. The name of this type of fire pit is a Dakota Fire Hole, and I thought with a little extra air flow provided by a fan it might have the potential for s…

This is a video of the proprietor of Anthill Art pouring molten aluminum down a fire ant mound to cast the shape of its tunnels to later sell on eBay. I can’t imagine the ants were too thrill…

Making Aluminum Bronze: Melting Copper and Aluminum: Aluminium bronze is a type of bronze in which aluminium is the main alloying metal added to copper, in contrast to standard bronze (copper and tin) or brass (copper and zinc). A variety of aluminium bronzes of differing compositions have found indus…