Potatoes take too big a chuck out of the budget (even at reduced price)

There's something so comfortingly human about this video. Seeing him struggle a bit with certain things and make some little mistakes (in the way that any of us would), seeing bites taken out of the little piece of cheese left in the corner (and seeing it get smaller and smaller with every jump cut), seeing him use simple easily-on-hand materials rather than fancy ones, the way the video is made in a personable style rather than being heavily scripted and polished...it's all just very human and nice. :)

As a former foundry moulder and furnace operator, then eventually melting area foreman, I must comment that I am really impressed with your grasp of the casting process and your use of the correct terminology. 👍

Only in Atomic shrimps channel you can go from making a video about homemade cheese in the previous video to casting metal in seashells....🤣🤣appreciate the variety of content that this channels always offers

I love it when you try new crafts, especially because you're an advocate for using what you have on hand and things you can find in your environment. Most art and craft content creators buy lots and lots of things that end up being very expensive and not always accessible, and often horrendous for the environment in terms of plastic packaging and shipping across the ocean. My favorite creators all have in common that they emphasise using affordable and/or free accessible things for their projects. Your methods are not fancy or polished, but they're doable for the average person and always interesting. Also like that you often show mistakes. Thank you for all the great content.

For depth of image, we would take our painted gaming figures and give them a wash with a beer bottle cap (yes, precise measurements) of thinner with just a single drop of black paint in it. That sinks into the crevices and gives the illusion of shadow. Beautiful shells- so glad you got both the inside and out!

They turned out beautifully! They’d make lovely finials for a curtain rod or bed posts.

Couple of notes: I would highly suggest, as it's thick enough, to do at least one brush on layer first if you've got the time. It really helps reduce any bubbles at the surface of the model. And also, after you pour the mix out into a clean container, you don't really want to be pouring it back into the dirty container before the final pour, just straight from the second container is fine. EDIT: I realise I didn't actually say anything about the result and might have sounded too critical. I think they look great, and seems like a nice beginner project. I really enjoy the variety of this channel, bucking the trend of having a million channels for different types of content. Thanks!

The term for your Zig Zag cutting is actually “registration”. It’s so that the mold goes exactly back where it was before you made the cut.

Came out very nice - I cast a lot of fossils and we have found that older silicone can gel quickly so perhaps you got an older batch. It's also strongly affected by temperature, so if the 2 parts were a little bit cooler (garage temperature at this time of year would work slower than room temp) you would have had more working time. Wax furniture polish (proper wax, not the spray stuff...) is also a good release agent and you can buff it with a toothbrush before moulding. You can also mix a small batch of silicone up and stipple on a thin coat with a stiff brush first, working it into all of the detail. Then backfill with more rubber just as the first coat is setting, bubbles are less of a problem. Finally the depression in the setting metal is known as "pipe" in the casting industry - it's more of a problem with low melting point eutectic alloys. Moulding and casting is good messy fun though!

Love this channel, it's like a pick and mix of great content. Aways look forward to seeing which eclectic topic the next video will be about.

As a frenchy, I always was fascinated by this word: pewter, puter... this metal thing. Since I've came across your channel, I did develop a fondness for ELEMENTS. I love it here.

Vids like this one make me think you really are the modern renaissance man- interested in everything!

I've always been embarrassed to purchase one, but thanks to Atomic I can mould a Fleshlight in the privacy of my own kitchen! Great vid!

that silicone looks absolutely delicious wow

Wow great job! I really enjoyed seeing this done using a different approach. They came out really nice looking! I had seen few of your scammer videos in the past so seeing you do this seems like such a coincidence. Also, I didn’t realize Saffron is also a liquid. Hope you saved it. That’s worth a lot of money!

By using a massage vibrator or a vibrating sander against the mold, it can release the air bubbles if the mold material has a bit longer time to set up. I would love to see you make a chess set out of cast pewter shells, and maybe a nice board out of "found" scrap wood.

this takes the cake, Shrimp. Definitely gonna be buying babybel cheese for "arts and crafts" purposes from now on!

I love watching these videos because unlike a lot of KZfaqrs, you know how to, and will just... make do. I've watched these kind of 'home diy project' videos by other people who will encounter an issue, or a non-ideal situation, and go spend $200 at a hardware store on some specialty item that kinda ruins the feasibility of doing it myself. I'm always so happy that I found this channel. Came for the scambaiting, stayed for Mr. Shrimp.

Amazing! A fleshlight and TWO buttplugs from just one seashell, outstanding craftsmanship. apologies for the degeneracy, i couldn't resist

The background babybell slowly being consumed is hilarious

26:30 potatoes?

Sorry about the comments I made earlier, now deleted. Childish. Genuinely have learned a tonne of stuff from your videos and appreciate the genuine effort you make in providing interesting and informative content. I should know better for a 52yr old. 👍

What a lovely video, I really enjoyed the occasional ASMR parts. I really like your tinkering stuff, the amazing variety on this channel truly appeals to me.

"Not quite where I thought I was but nevermind" Things you don't want to hear from a surgeon

As for making the texture a bit more interesting: What we have done with aluminium castings is brush them with linseed oil and then take a soft gas flame to them to oxidise the oil. Will take a lot of care with pewter, but might work. You get a scale of very deep browns in the hollows to light golds on the high spots.

They remind me of giant monopoly pieces/ figures. I think they turned out amazing and I want to make some too! Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it

I'd seen that video myself a while back, and I've REALLY been wanting to try it- but alas, due to neighbour complaints I've been banned from casting aluminium, copper, etc. I can do pewter without them noticing though. Would never have thought to try casting shells with it, but now I shall have to give it a go...

Melted a lot of pewter in my childhood, making casts of soldiers and such. Learnt a couple of new words in this vid, like "dross" and the difference of pewter and tin. Love it mate. :)

This video wasn't an excuse to eat many BabyBells, was it?

I love how this is as much a crafting channel as it is a cooking channel, keep it up 👍

Word of the day for me: Elevenses! Very cool project and thank you for sharing!

I appreciate that I’m not the only one that squirrels away plastic containers for another use. It seems such a waste to just throw them out. Cheers!

I’m new around here. I binged watched all the food budget videos over the last couple of days. Very entertaining. I honestly never thought I’d be watching videos about casting metal into seashells but I’m here for it all 😂

these kind of videos get boring but something about his voice keeps it entertaining

all of your videos are quite calming to watch and always something unique. thanks for showing us this activity as well!

Very cool project! Thanks, I do like your longer format videos 👍

Very nice. I was well pleased when you decided to keep the base of the seashell; rather than trying to cut it off. I reckon you could make these as an attachment to a curtain rod or the top of a cane.

What a lovely project ! The end result turned out really well, amazing job !

Brilliant - I can watch a craftsman making something/anything all day.

Your wide range of talents and interests are amazing. Great watch!

A vacuum chamber build would be a fun project for the channel!

It always makes me smile when a new video from you shows up in my feed. I know that whatever you're up to, it's going to be interesting and this was a great project. They came out really nice! I'm looking forward to finding out what you have planned for those pretty, pewter shells... 🐚 🐚

Interesting and entertaining. Great for a Friday lunchtime break from work. Thanks so much.

Really enjoyed this video . Spent hours on the beach collecting shells and made allsorts of crafts over the years with the shells ,never any thing this good. Would love to try this.

Fantastic idea and it turned out really well I think, you've made a lovely job of those, they look brilliant!

You are the third person I am subbed to that has uploaded metal casting today. What a coinkidic!

Thank you for another lovely video, always something interesting and nice to watch.

Just love the variety you give.

Atomic Shrimp: "OK so on this channel I do some scambaiting, cooking, walk my dog, and .... uh.... seashells!" / 840K+ people: "SUBSCRIBED!"

Really cool! Can't wait to see what you'll do with them!

That was lovely! And they turned out quite nice. Really lovely!

Was also wondering about casting the interior, then immersing in acid to just take out the shell and leave both sides intact like a helix.

thank you for not being selfish with your shell video

You must've been one helluva fun father to have while the kids were growing up. I'm more creative than the average, but though I always thought Baby Bell cheese wax was cool stuff I'da never thought of saving it to use for something on my own. What a cool project and informative video. My 10 year old grandson introduced me to you, he loves the scambaiting videos most. We love watching them together, and all of the rest too. You're such an interesting guy!

i love watching your videos, they’re so interesting :D

I watched that video too. I was expecting the same guy to be honest... but you explain things much better

That was great watching the casting really enjoyed it.

Oh those pieces would make great toppers for fence posts or the posts at the end of handrails. Maybe a niece decoration for the middle of a twopronged candlestick.

My favourite tool is the "Birmingham Screwdriver" - which is a large sledgehammer :)

They turned out rather nice.

So it's been three days, I had a notification for your veggi burger video but this went unnoticed, silently crept into my feed without me seeing it, I was Soo exited when I checked your channel and it was just sat there unwatched and alone, I've been craving a shrimpy videos for ages 👍🙂

These could make quite nice handles for a small box or even a cupboard.

Why can't I stop watching this?!?

I love pewter. It's a lovely shade of gray. Not as brilliant as silver, but still pretty! This turned out really well, especially for someone just "Having a go." My landlord would probably tear my head off if I replicated this, though.

Very nice and interesting. They look great with the metal stand.

Thank you for a good video, and new things to watch/learn

Great video! I think they turned out really well!

A fun video. Thank you. And you have two interesting ornaments. I am surprised at how similar they look. I was expecting the inner one to be much smaller.

Chocolate seashells would be nice🐚

That mold would make some cool drawer pulls or knobs.

Great video! Thanks!

There is literally no end to your knowledge!😆👍💯💥💙

Turned out very nice!

they might be quite nice of the ends of a curtain pole, very nice to watch as always!

That's very pretty. Would make a nice wine topper, if you used a piece of artificial cork or something as the bottom.

Those are very well done! My brother used to cast pewter pieces for his customers, but the cost of pewter put him out of that part of his business. With the metal now costing well over $40 /lb. and the requirement for 7 lb. ingots minimum, he can no longer afford to do that because like everything else these days the customers want everything for pennies no matter how much the raw materials cost. He used to make the "master" part using a 3d printer and then the master was impressed into raw rubber which was then vulcanized. Once the rubber was vulcanized, he would cut his vents into the mold, set it up on the spin caster and then pour his pewter in. Using his stereo lithographic printer, he was able to cast medallions with very small legible text on them for various customers. In addition to the spin casting, he did some sand casting as well and created his own casting box. He cast his own latches and used those to hold his sandbox together and used to cut the sprue and vents into the sand using very sharp sculpting tools.

i love how you can re-use the wax, and have a snack at the same time. no sense letting that wax go to waste.

Looking forward to the resign. Now having them in colours would be stunning. X

Very nice! I really like them.

They look beautiful and i love them on the bases. What a great use for Babybel wax also 😂👍

They look really nice.

A very interesting video, thank you.

These are my favorite types of videos. Hoping for more hdpe stuff soon!

They look like they could be the ends of a curtain rod. They are quite beautiful.

I’d use them as drawer handles. Love your channel.

Oh how I love watching your vids. Thank you shrimp for just being you ❤

Oh this was right up my alley! I often use impressions in my art, and I've taken moulds of all sorts of stones/shells/ammonites/treebark etc. I've never tried metal casting but I cant wait to see what your shells turn into. My first thought was doorknobs haha!

You can use Kinetic Sand (children toy sand) for casting, it hold pewter rather well and it is mostly reusable, as the waste is very small per casting.

You could make shellfish themed chess pieces.

What would be really interesting, possibly…is casting it with a double sprue, one going to the exterior of the shell and the other to the mouth, so the shell itself blocks the second sprue during the interior casting pour. Then remove the shell, dissolve the calcium, use the sprue to index it again within the mould, then do a second, clear epoxy pour to cast the outside of the shell around the metallic inside. The initial casting could also be done in wax or a medium that can be dissolved without damaging the epoxy, and you could create a transparent version of the shell.

Eva had a lot this say this time around. Interesting video.

Loved it! I think they'd make lovely cupboard handles!

A shout out for the brilliant non-ferrous foundry in Lymington…. And for the long since closed Ley’s Malleable foundry, Derby. The grinding shop demanded the hardest sustained physical labour I have ever seen, conducted in a sheer bedlam of noise, danger from breaking grinding wheels and the awkward weights of big grey iron castings of differential gear box casings. Frankly… a brutal working environment which was staffed by 80-90% of ‘foreign labour’.

As a long term subscriber, I think you're gonna make handles with em

The silicone jelly point is effected by room temperature, i fine working faster is better than slower. Its based on my using the blue food safe version.

I could tell you'd been watching Robert Tolone's videos before I read the description.

The pieces you've got out of this remind me of the king and queen in a chess set. Perhaps you could explore more shells, make a whole chess set out of pewter casts?

Laughing at the burnt seafood aroma annotation. Very descriptive haha

I've made silicone moulds from shells (for icing) and can confirm that silicone putty does not stick to shells.