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Ask CRAFT: Rusty Baking Pan

This week’s question comes from the inside: Craftzine Managing Editor Shawn Connally asks: “I got out my loaf pans to make banana bread this afternoon and one of the pans had rust in it. I scrubbed it well, but the rust is still on there, or at least the color of rust is on there. Can I still use the pan, or is it dangerous and should be used to store loose screws or something like that?” First off, if your pan is nonstick or coated with any sort of flaky chemical coating, toss it. Shawn’s pan, pictured above, isn’t coated, so it’s just metal we’re dealing with, not harmful disintegrating nastiness that’s going to leech into your baked goods. If it’s not coated, you can deal with the rust and save your pan.

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Powder coating in an old oven

Powder coating in an old oven

This Instructable explains how to use an old electric oven and reasonably-priced kit to powder-coat at home: I’ve seen some cool candleholders around town made from plumbing fittings so this holiday season I made a bunch of powder coated iron pipe candleholders for friends. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at powder coating since […]

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M6G Prototype in foam

M6G Prototype in foam

Vrogy has created a foam prototype of the M6G pistol from Halo 3. He originally intended to make a whole arsenal of aluminum cast weaponry from his designs. He discovered from this design that lost foam metal casting is somewhat a fussy art. I cast one, but it turned out very wrong.. metalcasting is a […]

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PMC jewelry workshop

PMC jewelry workshop

Julie is a teacher down the hall from me. From time to time she and other teachers offer workshops to other teachers after school. Over the past couple of days, she has showed ten colleagues from the science, special education, history, administration and art how to work with PMC, Precious Metal Clay. Julie talked a […]

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Bowed cymbal recording

Important to remember – interesting sounds need not originate from complex devices. I have a bunch of bowed cymbal sounds in my library and they have always intrigued me as I understood how they were created but had never bothered to actually try myself, despite having a drum kit (the ultimate stress reliever!) with some […]

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Giant guitar

Giant guitar

Check this 12′ x 4′ guitar for sale by its maker – “Heavy Metal” is a large acoustic style guitar sculpture that can actually be strummed to make some musically appeasing sounds. This sculpture can be made in any size or style and can be installed in various ways, it would be perfect for a […]

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