Golden Axe! How to Make It

I use the foundry to make the golden brass axe. This little hatchet is almost for decoration because it performs very poorly but it is beautiful.

I use recycle brass from different sources. Brass metal is melt in the foundry and poured in a beach sand mold. After that, excess is remove with a saw and a file. It is finish with sand paper. Finally performance is compare with a commercial one.

Make or get a mold out of wooden, you can use any other material

Pour sand in the mold frame and smash it until you fill the frame

Place the wooden mold on the sand

Smash the sand, the mold and remove excess sand

Pour quite a lot of talcum powder

Put the top frame of the mold. Fill it with sand and smash it. When it is fill, remove excess

Open the mold

Remove the mold using screws

Make two holes in the mold. Metal intake and air outtake

Close the mold

Pour molten metal

Remove the axe blade from the mold

Saw and file excess material

Polish the blade

Make a hole for the stick

Put a stick to the blade