Making a Cast Iron Skillet Using Recycled Brake Rotors | Cast Iron Gypsy at the Windy Hill Foundry
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- Way back before the Covid 19 Pandemic began, Windy Hill Foundry hosted its first Invitational Iron Pour and Mold Making Workshop. I was honored to be invited by Clarke Easterling and his wife Jose Easterling. During the workshop I learned from Clarke how to make a sand mold with his mixture of green sand and I cast this iron skillet. The text on my skillet is my name, my fiance's name and our scheduled wedding date. Rob attended the invitational with me and plays a large supportive role for me and this channel. I affectionately refer to him as my “Bearded Wonder”, and he films most all of the handheld footage that you see of me! Even if he does not appear very often in videos, without his love, support, and hard work behind the scenes - this channel would not exist!
I cannot fail to mention that I owe a special thanks to Adam Booth of Abom79, who recently endorsed me on his TH-cam channel. His spotlight on my channel has effectively introduced my channel to the Online Maker Community!
Again, great thanks to:
Adam Booth - Abom79 - / abom79
Clarke Easterling - Windy Hill Foundry - / @windyhillfoundry5940
If you're new here welcome! My name is Laura Elizabeth and I am an iron casting metal artist. Being a cast iron artist is an interesting, and at times tough journey, but the rewards far exceed all challenges. While working with cast iron to create my art I am exposed to an amazing community of artists who are as dedicated and passionate as I am. The cast iron art culture is a major influence in my life and on my work and I want to share this artistic adventure with anyone who is interested in seeing hard working people make amazing art with a hot and dangerous material. To do this, I make vlog style videos on this channel that chronicle the artwork that I am currently making and my journeys in iron casting. In between casting and metal art videos you may also see some behind the scenes footage of me roaming around the heart of the Midwest and the Ozarks.
As always - Thanks for watching, I love you and I'll see you at the next pour!
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Video Editor: Laura Mullen
Music Credit: Epidemic Sound
Quick Safety Note: The act of creating cast iron art is dangerous, participants are exposed to extreme heat and possible explosions. Some must lift heavy ladles of molten iron or other heavy objects while fully suited in safety gear, hardhat and face shield. Every single person you see footage of in my videos had signed liability wavers and attended a safety meeting where they were made aware of all potential hazards they may be subjected to.
The dates may not be set in stone, but it's definitely cast in iron.
It's poetry😌😌
This is definitely an important trade to learn. Who cares about else, but to learn farming, building, hunting and creating survival tools to live a loving peaceful life with your loved ones.
Thank you so much for sharing and thank God for blessing us with a wonderful man to teach us all a valuable trade.
Hell yes! Love seeing women working with metal 👏
Clarke is such an invaluable source when it comes to cast iron.
THats a lovely project. You and Rob will look at it for many, many decades to come.
Clark and Windy Hill are fabulous people and places. I think he actually loves teaching others because, in my opinion, the fount of all knowledge for casting. Congratulations on your upcoming wedding and best wishes for a fabulous future together.
Nice pour! and nice to know that there are people like you, Rob and Clarke,Jose and fellows in this world. For whatever reason, watching cast iron being poured makes me want to be a better human being.
Congratulations Laura, both on the Skillet. and of course, the occasion that is the reason for it!
I went to HS in the 70's, and we learned how to do castings in shop class. Also did lost wax casting in a jewelers class. Love this stuff..nice work.
Me too. Can you imagine: they let us pour molten metal in school!! And use dangerous tools!
@@frankhoose Yeah we had a foundry in our metal shop in High School. I poured aluminum castings all the time. That was back in 1983.
Rob is one lucky man. Hope you have a great future together! Turned out beautiful.
lol maybe.
This is my first time on this channel so I'm just talki...typing out my ass but hopefully they've been dating and/or engaged for a couple of years or so. It's extremely hard to hide the crazy longer than that.
haaa. verbal vandalism is fun.
This video was fun to watch !
Thank you for showing us a little bit of how castings are made.
Great job! I love the casting videos, and the finished skillet was awesome. Shout out for Rob and Bones, great support crew!
Hi, new subscriber, Abom79 sent me. I wanted to thank you for helping Clark and the rest of the folks at the event, it was plain to see that you were indispensable there, and made things so much easier with the pours. Looking forward to checking out the rest of your content, and hope you have a great weekend!
You can coat cast iron with pine tar, and heat it up for a really nice dark finish. Then you can apply boiled linseed oil for a bit of shine, and rust prevention. My favorite TH-cam blacksmith did this on some of his work, and it looked super.
Boiled linseed oil? With reactive metals for accelerating the curing process? I think that's a terrible idea. Also, how can you be sure brake rotors don't have lead in them?
Can we get name drop for that TH-camr so they can get the proper recognition and a new subscriber(s).
@@ryanhoyt2210 Absolutely, his TH-cam channel, and real name is Torbjörn Åhman. Both his craftsmanship, and video editing is top notch, in my opinion.
Laura,
Found you because of Adam Booth. I enjoyed this video. Congratulations on the wedding. I have been happily working on mine since 1976. My youngest daughter just married 5/23, making us empty nesters. I fill up my time being grandfather to 32, playing in my shop and church labor. I watch too much instructional TH-cam. Because of Abom79, I now have added Cast Iron Gypsy to my watch list. We live not very far from you. I wish you all well.
Laura, your cast iron skillet really turned out great, I enjoyed watching your video, &. thanks very much for sharing your video.!.!.!.
A good dog is one who has to be right in the middle of what you're doing. You've got a damn good dog there.
Great to see you Clark. God bless you always 🙏❤
Nice job on the skillet it turned out nice. Have a great wedding day. ATB Stay safe. regards from the UK
Genuinely enjoyed watching this project, and what a super cool way to commemorate your marriage. Was awesome to see you hanging out with Adam and Keith too!!
WoW ! Absolutely brilliant!!! That’s a work of art 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍
I really liked how that turned out! I like cast iron skillets!
very stinkin' cool! thanks for the good watch, and congrats on your upcoming hitching!
at least you did comments I had no Idea what you had cast on that day so cool and thought outside the box.
I watch Adam all the time but did not see his mention of you. I am shut in so watch a lot of youtube. I was looking for new ones and saw yours and tried it Great program!!!! Am looking forward to seeing all of yours. Adam is a great guy and always entertaining .You are in good hands with him . Good luck and thanks
This is absolutely amazing, Now I want to make a skillet!!!! Thank you for sharing!!! #love
If you end up making one please let me know, I’ll love to see how it turns out!☺️❤️
Beautiful job. It's something I've always wanted to try. I can't believe anyone would give a thumbs down to this video
Wow, that did come out really great, but boy its a lot of work! And mucho dangeroso
Awesome video. Just can't get enough of casting.
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. If you both can make it through 2020, the rest of your lives ought to be a piece of cake.
I almost always use an iron skillet. Now you're bringing creative potential to the idea range to me. So far I have never done anything like this. Exciting to see!
Thanks
A transformational event (for you) in many ways. I enjoy your work very much. Happy Nuptials to y'all.
Omg! Love this idea! That is super cute and functional!!! ❤️❤️❤️
wow bring me back to
high school.. thanks
be safe
WOW!!! This was awesome to watch.
I do some metal casting myself, Copper is the maximum I can melt and cast, Iron is at a whole other level!
Buttons clicked and bell rung! 👍👍👍
Kicking the cat not good
@@brucemcgeehan8255 It was just a strong nudge from a country boy. I'm sure he didn't mean any harm. I noticed that too and had to stop the negative thoughts from vibrating in and look at it from the perspective of the cat. He's actually keeping it from getting in the way and possibly getting hurt. At least, that's what my heart tells me.
Those would make a great wedding gift . great idea .
Nice work, thanks for sharing! Also "I'm helping from right here ..." 🤣
That looks like a really fun weekend
Interesting. Thank you. Lovely little frying pan. Cheers from Canada :-)
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding. May your marriage wear like iron, and feel light as a feather.
Congratulations! What a great way to memorialize your wedding.
That skillet project came out outstanding! You do have a good skill in metal work. Thanks for sharing.
I loved this!!! So friendly, informative, and encouraging!
Brilliant result
I love how it sparkles just being out in the air when it's molten, like a...well...sparkler...
Wow, you made a super interesting and professional video of this project Laura. Love your voice over! Nice to see you already created casted memories of your future wedding, I wish you every luck and happiness towards this special day.
awsome. I love it! dang, thats good sand. Also, might be the biggest crucible I have ever seen!
Excellent video - best wishes to you and Rob for a wonderful life together!
That’s cool. I know some people that make the sand molds for people and that’s all they do for a living
Hi
Where can I buy the moulds ?
Congratulations on your wedding tomorrow, all the best.
That was great, keep it up. Enjoy your day. I came here through Abom and now I’m here to stay.
Way-cool beans !!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Just fascinating! I have not poured iron yet. That turned out GREAT!
WOW! Cool! You got married on my birthday! Congrats! Great video! Good info to know!
Congratulations to the newlyweds.
What a great project!
Great looking cast iron pan.
I watch the difference in your sand casting and these dudes I watch in India. Making a mold takes them about 6 minutes, all the while they are in tee-shirts and flip flops, one dude is melting the steel sitting about a foot away from the smelter pecking on his phone while non chalantly stuffing broken cast iron in the opening. The guys make 5 or 6 molds and the steel is ready and they pour it in tee shirts and flip flops. I like the video from you and everyone, I lived in USA 50 years and moved over seas luckily I was pre acclimated to the very different ideas about safety and job just get er done. Great video thanks for the time needed to make,edit and post it!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Good to the the start to finish of this project.
Loved it!!!
So pleased the pour wasn't a disaster, I saw the earlier footage with all the flames and didn't know if it was a success. Now I do, and it was. Good trick with the linseed oil finish
I was laughing because my lady would have taken that and put it on the stove and used it to get that beautiful black.
Nicely done. You make me want to get back to doing some more casting. I use petrobond and aluminum, attempting to make simple machines such as dividing heads and such. It is such a rush to pour molten metal and come back hours later to find what surprises are in that sand.
Congrats !!! That is AWESOME !!! Excellent Craftsmanship. :-D
Who doesn't want to have their OWN signature cast iron skillet?? Why aren't they marketing this??!
Well, Hope you had a happy wedding, And make every day enjoyable.
Great content - part of this is what we didn't see from Adam's video. I really like your calm demeanor when working around the molten metal, I've seen it in your other videos as well. I must however take exception with your description of the skillet as a "medium" skillet. I laughed out loud when you said that at the beginning of the video. I was raised with 4 other siblings and mom cooked in cast iron most of my young life and a medium skillet would have swallowed that one you had. Thanks again and keep up the great content!
This is way cool. Kudos!
Abom's arrival for *you*!
Also that boy is the bestest of boys.
Nice job! Very cool. Thanks for the video. :)
That was awesome!
This is a little more than dangerous. Props to all. I'll watch. 😂
Congratulations on the wedding! Nice work on your pour.
Nice dog and do like your skillet.!!!
Love this, won't try this at home, but had to watch the whole video. Well done.
Awesome video, always wanted to learn how to cast and I've worked in a steel mill for 18 years😅...he's so lucky, you have a great personality and pretty too...
I watched Adam's video of this. You footage is very cool. I am starting to save brake rotors for melting. Wish you the best on the upcoming wedding. Stay safe during the pours.
That casting turned out very good. Nice work.
This was a beautiful video to watch. If you cook all your meals with a cast iron skillet, might as well make it a special one. I love it!
Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Adam Booth 😎
Congratulations on your marriage! I just saw this video today, and saw the 7/12/2020 date on the skillet. I thought, wow, that's today!!!!
Thanks for the video. Keep safe and stay well.
Amazing. Love it!
Perfect! Excellent combination of voice over explanation of what you are doing, background music that doesn't get in the way, content, and the dialog is all you! You love us? We love you too! Oh, suggestion: let Bones get a little screen time too, and don't forget the screen creds for him! See you at the next pour.
Awesome job !
Abom (and wife) and Keith Rucker: All the cool kids were there!
Excellent story, awesome collaboration with windy hill... Oh and bones is a pretty doggy.
I sm out if here. Wow! WOW!!
Very nice! I like that you're so calm around molten iron. Like hey, this one's leaking. Not a big deal!
Congrats on the upcoming wedding!
Great idea, I have some sign letters and a small skillet too... :)
Congrats on your upcoming wedding!
Hey, I tried this! Made a cast aluminum birthday card skillet for my wife. I'm still working up my nerve to try cast iron someday, but meanwhile that's what black spraypaint is for... Thanks for the idea! It came out nice, she likes it, but the 3 A's I used kicked my butt. Stupid little triangles...
Flapper wheel..... I'm assuming that that's going to be just straight up decor..... AWESOME 👌...
That skillet turned out awesome! Can't say that I blame the dog for wanting some camera time also, He's quite the handsome pooch.
Casting is cool we did it in high school but not with cast iron. Much hotter when poured kinda reminded me of watching footage of steel mills when they poured their steel. That a good way to get rid of ants!
Nice work! And good to see Adam doing his first pour there!
Thanks fer th incredible tutorial, Sister! Die hard life long (~60 yrs) cast iron user, an advocate...still roll daily with me Granny's Favourite Piqua Ware No. 8 lol!
Gots me a bit of a collection; If'n Cast Iron ever becomes a crime...why, reckon I'll be a doin several hunnert consecutive Life sentences....8-0
Be safe an well, all yall!
So cool Laura. Thank you for the video.
WELL DONE!
wow wish i could do that its more than a skillet its art absolutely beautiful
Congrats on your upcoming wedding!
Congrats on your upcoming wedding. I heard Andrew has a fiance as well. Happy. Joy. Joy.
That was a great piece of content. I really like the voice over, soft and personal. Too many You Tubers feel they have to scream in manic overtones.