Yes I expected them to have different mechanical properties but different smells when evaporated and different chemical resistance to solvents surprised me.
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And make a worthwhile career out of!
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Clever idea. It’s the temp/time that matters so I would think the method is open to variation.
BTW you can do it in a gas grill if you calibrate it with a real thermometer and not the one that came with the grill 
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When you dig into it I’d be willing to bet those are going to be results of the mechanical differences between the materials.
@Scott.Burns if I’d been born 5-10 years earlier or gone to school somewhere different I likely would have ended up in metallurgy instead of biomedical engineering. I didn’t even know I was going to like materials till senior year when they finally put us in a manufacturing class and we spent a month talking about all the different things you can do to just steel to make it do what you want
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It really is fascinating.
My Son took me on a tour of a mini-mill where he was the hot mill metallurgist. I’ll tell you an arc furnace in action is a sight (and sound) to behold!
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I’m jealous. Close as I ever manage to get is YouTube. I went to a bronze foundry and got to watch them pour statues once but that was 15 years ago and I didn’t really appreciate it at the time.
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That’s a big pour!
I have cast a few pounds at once, seeing a pour of 30 tons of molten steel is mildly terrifying.
They pour the main crucible into three metallurgical crucibles for analysis and adjustment according to customer requirements.
Edit- we’re sorry Jules 
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I made a little baby foundry and then never had the guts to fire it up. It’s just charcoal based… I think I know what I’m doing this weekend
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Novus ? will that polish to a high gloss ?
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They make it in several grades so you can start with a piece that looks like garbage, start running through grades of sandpaper, then micromesh and finally the grades of Novis to a uncanny shine.
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Chuckle! Again, not a problem! Anything that promotes discussion is fine by me. Feel free to chat amongst yourselves. 
Just ordered the small. Something tells me there will be need of it in the future! 
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This is the punchline. I just made a very similar design for some lights at our house, but just a repeating pattern in Illustrator. That is a wicked hard and wicked cool way to do it!
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Chuckle! Now is not a good time to tell me there was an easier way! 
(Before. Before is better.) 
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LOL. That’s what she… Nevermind 
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Are patterns made in AI supported in the GFUI now?
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Looking at the remaining skeleton where you cut out the pieces, I couldn’t help but think that it could be upcycled into a nice light box or tea light cube that people make…
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Though I don’t have bling to remove when I (ahem) do dishes, ha… that’s pretty damn AWESOME!
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I hate that !! Since I’ve been stocking up now for well over a year, I have some stuff I have no idea (I keep looking for the matching invoice then try to figure out what it’s not and narrow it down)
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