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No Screams Allowed

Done screaming… For now <grin>

My cure is to spend less time in from of the mass-media servers. They have all become nothing but extreme brain-washing marketing machines. Advertising is certainly more than 50 percent of the content of commercial audio/video entertainment.

I like to turn off commercial entertainment of all kinds and fill the free time thus created with creative imagination and tangible creative effort. I find “making stuff” far more entertaining and rewarding than enduring brain-rot from commercial media advertising sources.

‘Nuff about the evils of media…

I am nearly age 75, retired from my engineering and management career. Where I once enjoyed extreme creative power spending millions […] Continue reading » No Screams Allowed

October 20th, 2021 | Category: Hobbies, Lost Wax - Silver | Leave a comment

An Investment in Wax

Some rambling on the art of lost wax casting.

Wax masters ready for casting

There is a basic or fundamental law in lost wax casting. The law says,”The casting is only as good as the model.”

Every and I mean EVERY flaw in the model will be duplicated in the cast. There is no such luck as expecting it to “look better” once it is cast. Because tiny details are easily overlooked in the model. The casting almost always has a flaw in some detail.

Time spent on the finish of the wax is time well spent. Wax on a model can be added as well […] Continue reading » An Investment in Wax

November 25th, 2019 | Tags: , , , | Category: Hobbies, Lost Wax - Silver | Comments are closed

The K0BSR Ring

I was contacted by email from an amateur radio operator, Ben K0BSR, in Colorado. Hams reading this will know how to find out more about him.

He saw my silver work and wondered if I could make him an amateur radio callsign ring. I have made several versions for myself and my own radio call sign.

I asked him for suggestions and he came up with the idea that he wanted it to look like a portable HF radio. That seemed like a good design challenge for me.

I have been playing with three-dimensional printing and thought this was a great project to create using 3D printing to make […] Continue reading » The K0BSR Ring

April 13th, 2018 | Category: 3D Printing, Hobbies, KautzCraft, Lost Wax - Silver | Comments are closed

Feel the Love

I enjoy exploring new challenges. They permit me to stray from a hard and true single-minded repetitive process. I am OK with that, because mostly… what I do, is what I enjoy.

I glance at the road around and behind me from time to time. Sometimes I see people following where I am headed. They are the “fans” who love whatever I make.

Occasionally there is no one there. I made a change to a road less travelled when no one is watching. This time it was the road to the mountain of new knowledge and skills.

I have a little moto, that keeps me on track while doing […] Continue reading » Feel the Love

February 8th, 2018 | Tags: , , , | Category: Hobbies, Lost Wax - Silver | Comments are closed

Love What You Do

The KautzCraft Studio (KC) is now my main retirement vocation. I wonder if that means I am not retired. Well, I feel retired so I will keep the designation. KC doesn’t provide me anywhere near a real income, but it does stop me from robbing banks. Banks, because that is where the money is kept… Ha! I think Willie Sutton is reputed to have said that.

I’d much rather be working with silver than in a chain gang.

I see an endless number of options and creations I can make while working in my studio. I like working with all kinds of materials with silver so far being the only […] Continue reading » Love What You Do

March 28th, 2016 | Tags: , , , | Category: KautzCraft, Lost Wax - Silver | Comments are closed
 
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