DUDE those castings were crisp as heck man. Absolutely beautiful details

This is the future of anti-right to repair

This is one of those videos that I expect to just click through and see the end result but that whole process was beautiful to see start to finish. Such a cool project

I can't believe how well the mould comes out. I expected bubbles and rough artefacts but those were perfectly straight lines. Amazing.

Awesome result. I can see how having all the “dummy” set screws makes it way more difficult

You've really become a proficient machinist! Single point thread cutting is an achievement no matter how you look at it and as always your casting and finishing is stunning. Really well done on this puzzle it is beautiful.

The workmanship on display here is absolutly inspiring!

Super impressive results, amazing threading, and I can't help but envy the amount of detail captured by your maze cast! I'm now getting into pouring and forms, and man is this the kind of inspiration I needed!

wow, very impressed. i was a bridgeport operator for 20 years and your video brought me back to those days.

I cannot tell you how many wood working, wood turning, sword/knife making, Japanese bowl making and other videos I've watched. This is one of the coolest ideas and projects I've ever seen!! The process is extremely similar to how we dentists used to cast gold crowns and how jewelers cast gold jewelry pieces. Wax forms, instead of plastic. Different investment material and the gold is spun into the forms with a centrifuge. But, still, very similar. Really great job!!

That's absolutely fantastic work! The maze type pattern as a surface texture alone looks stunning.

This is a great video and it shows how well you've progressed with your foundry work. The castings are so crisp and detailed they look as though they were CNC machined. And I love the way you incorporate the machine work into your projects - it's another layer of skill that most will never attain. Keep up the good work on these pieces of art and the videos that accompany them, it's always such a treat to open up KZfaq and find one of your videos waiting for me to view!

Every single part you did was superb and great to watch. I audibly went, 'wow', when you sandblasted the left over ceramic, amazed at the detail. Really well done!

The workmanship on display here is absolutly inspiring!. DUDE those castings were crisp as heck man. Absolutely beautiful details.

These turned out amazing! I'm always impressed with how nice your polishing always turns out!

can bronze be blued? it would look nice with darker grooves

Polishing the high points of the maze came out amazing. Looks very good.

Beautiful work, and great process to get there. I'm surprised how cleanly you got the detail of the 3D prints, and with minimal post-processing of the castings. Excellent craftsmanship and presentation!

Sweet and polished outcome! I love the entire process from forming/melting/casting/polishing/finishing...the complete vision! And, the final product is a beautiful piece of art...well done!

I've really enjoyed the videos you post. I'm definitely amazed at all the molds that you have been able to do using 3D printing techniques. Keep up the great work.

Another beautiful creation. I am a big fan of the way the set screw filled nut looks.

I love this! It was so cool watching you make these intricate mazes from scratch.

I think what's most impressive to me, is that beyond the immaculate craftsmanship and aesthetics of the objects in general, you also managed to design an entire maze, in 3d, on a *cylinder* and then just kinda glazed over it entirely like NBD.

It’s totally rad how awe inspiring you’ve become with machining. I loved that part the most about this video. More in depth than the foundry, which don’t get me wrong I love too. Last note, you should send one to Chris Ramsay and see if he could solve it. He’s a puzzle guy on KZfaq.

A true craftsman at work. Thank you for sharing.

i love that you left the mahcining marks on the outside of the nut, it adds such a nice look to the end result. fantastic puzzle.

Thank you for sharing your amazing work and artistry with all of us! Not only your creativity and excellent machine work but the quality of your video - such great shots and editing! It was very satisfying to watch you work even though I know almost nothing about these processes. Thanks again!

Great job! You really turned your work into art.

Wow man, the quality of work in every step of this project is truly impressive. I want one of those on my desk made out of solid copper and or titanium. Great work, thanks for sharing.

These things are *gorgeous* -- wtf. Really well done on the process here, too. They're so complex but incredibly well made. Kudos!

Awesome work, the puzzle looks amazing and really shows off your attention to detail!

First rule in government spending: "Why build one when you can have 2 at twice the price."

You should collab with Chris Ramsey. This looks totally up his alley. 😁

These are beautiful. I print puzzles for my nieces and nephews for gifts with money inside, but this takes it to a whole new level of gorgeous. Wish I had the equipment (and skill) to do something like this.

I needed to see this. Thank you!

Looks a-maze-ing!

I'd love to have a collection of puzzle bolts that would be so cool, physical puzzles like these are my favorite type of puzzle.

Very impressed with the use of liquid porcelain, the outcome is spectacular!

Fantastic! This was like a visual ASMR. Every single step of this.

The overall outcome is amazing, and the finishing, and engineering are worthy of praise for this creation. All steps are meticulously planned. Kudos to you

Supreme quality video! awesome 😮

They look great.

Lovely work - you make it look very easy (with the right equipment and knowledge!)

It puzzles me how one person can make something so amazing, on the first try too! Props to you sir.

Tip: instead of making 8% tin bronze, 10% aluminum bronze is notably stronger. Also, using water to cool them down quicker like that actually makes them softer. The screws still look beautiful, and I'm sure there isn't really a problem with softer metal, since it's not undergoing much stress at all.

Awesome design! You should send the second one to Adam Savage, I'm sure he'd love having this oddity on his shelf and would give your channel a nice shoutout.

Absolutely beautiful. Those look fantastic. I love all the detail in them. Great job on this.

Absolutely amazing skills. Beautiful craftsmanship.

Your talent is astonishing. This puzzle came out amazing. I thought you were making a custom puzzle for Chris Ramsay to solve. Truly a work of art.

Really well made! Its incredible what pouring hot metal can create, especially if you have machinists tools for finishing. Maybe you should give away the extra maze. It would create more comments from your audience which increases engagement and youtubes algorithm loves that.

I just discovered your channel today. It is good to see that someone found a practical use for 3d printers. I noticed that on a couple of your videos your casting had voids in them. I remember seeing and old school craftsman doing castings years ago. He would push a broom straw through the sand mold to let air escape and avoid some of those voids. I don't claim to know anything about casting from a practical standpoint, that is just something I remember seeing and I thought I would pass that tip on.

nice to finally see repressed memories coming back,ever feel like youve done this before? well you did 🎉

Fantastic as usual! 🙂

This is probably one of the coolest and most satisfying things I've ever come across. Almost makes me want to start casting my own pieces of art!

I'm only half way through and I must say Thank you. This is a lot of work.

Beautiful work. I have some cheap bronze puzzles that drive people crazy where you need to get an internal pin halfway through the inner cylinder before you can continue. Nothing as difficult as yours. I've done foundry work with bronze so watching your explanation of having a sprue for shrinkage was nothing I didn't know, but having the machine tools you do really kept me watching the video. Bravo!

These look super cool! Actually thought this was gonna be a 4 axis cnc video lol. Any reason you chose not to cast the whole bolt as a single piece and put the spruce at the other end of the bolt?

Well done bud!! They look fantastic. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought they were all machined out of solid brass stock. You’re very good at machining. Keep it up!

Amazing, I thought it was only a decorative maze, I didn't expect it would be a real maze escaping "toy". Such a beautiful work!

Just realized how cool this idea is. If this were actually used as a bolt... The person trying to remove it would have to solve the maze.

This is such a cool project! Question from an aspiring amateur machinist: at 04:31, the bolt is protected from the chuck jaws by wrapping it in a metal sheath. That sheath overlaps itself a short distance, so that there are two layers of that metal between one of the chuck jaws and the bolt, while the other jaws appear to only have one layer between them and the bolt. Does this additional layer of material affect the precision of the lathe in any way, e.g., situating the bolt off-centre on the lathe by the thickness of the metal sheath? Or is this something that can be corrected for by individually adjusting the chuck teeth? Thanks to anyone that's willing to provide some guidance!

I think you just invented the lock picking lawyers worst nightmare, the maze keyway! Just imagining trying to complete the keymazeway from muscle memory at 2am is dreadful 😂.

Absolutely riveting. Looks like a real nut twister to solve. The inspiration must have came like bolt from the blue.

Wow. I love it. As a fan of puzzles and machinery this was incredible to watch.

Chris Ramsey would solve it

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As soon as I saw a 4 jaw chuck I realized, this guy knows his stuff. very good job.

ah. I forgot to mention how utterly fantastic I think this puzzle is - Absolut fantastisch!

THIS IS CRAZY. Another level of skill!

Very cool project. Great job! The attention to detail is 10 out of 10.

What a piece of art you have done and with impressive techniques. Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful process and thank you for this refresher of sculpture procedures with metals. Just satisfying and a beautiful result.🕊

That's beautiful (and ingenious) work. Man I miss having my drill/mill/lathe set up . . .

this is a beautiful puzzle design, when I saw it I could imagine it as an special key giving access to a locked door. Imagine using two o more of these keys as a combined locking system. Wonderful work, mate.

Amazing! Both the puzzle and the video. I enjoyed every second watching it.

Great video! The lost PLA method to cast is so cool! I love the final result!

fantastic work with beautiful results, Love the concept and you earned a subscriber, thanks!

this stuff being made on a lathe oh from experience its ugh so satisfying itll make a grown man shed a tear

Glad your process works so good no channels clogged in the pattern

Nice one. Just a no handcrafting man here who's interested in puzzles. I like the logo like impregnation on the screw nut of the old one. This would also add to the new ones. And the round bottom of these two could hold some Jumanji like text which lures you into the maze. Could be something like this: "Holding this in front of you makes a more stronger you. But giving it some twists and once or twice or more a turn could help to start your brain burn, old energy within your body's corners to find an escape from this transformer..." ;-) But what's not so nice for a puzzle solver is that this is a one time pony. Maybe it is not too hard to make a maze holder containing 3 or more of these maze roles which than could be interchanged with one another or more ones you could make in the future. Like a long screw with 3 or 4 or 5 nuts on it. These just have to have something holding them in place when attached to each other. They could also be different materials/colors/themes/... . Same goes for the screw nut to solve the puzzle. You can imagine it a bit like the hero going into the maze. So beside the maze line logo of the old one one side could hold a hero picture like a tiny Mega Man or the Transformers logo or the Zelda Triforce. So multiple nuts mean multiple heroes to choose 1 from before you start. And another idea I have is to add a hat with a screw for this so the screw nut can only go back to the start at the bottom until you twist the hat until it is removed to change the hero/screw nut. You can use all this inspiration for free but maybe I will do something like this in the future myself. ^^ Or more precisely: Let it be done. 🤣

VERY NICE video! My dad worked on huge brass and stainless centrifugal castings and I worked in plastics. This video was a perfect application of both. I especially appreciated you melting most of the plastic out before burning the remainder. Even though the plastic is pretty much unusable, it wasn't dispersed into the air. KUDOS!

The perfect castings show how many times you've failed to absolutely master them! Truly amazing.

That's a stunning piece of craftsmanship. I would love to have them as ornaments and tell people they were alien artifacts! 🤣🤣

Why is lathe work always so hypnotically therapeutic to watch?

This looks like the perfect project for 5-Minute Crafts!

An absolutely fantastic and impressive professional work of art. Thanks for sharing this. 😀

Awesome work man, this is incredible.

Amazing well rounded skillset and creative genius! Hats off to you!

So relaxing watching the machining of the parts, beautiful video and end product

Thank you for helping me understand the casting process

In 2000 years the next humans finding this for sure say: "This must be a decoding Tool for some unknown language, how the old world humans did this 2000 years ago...". Great work, btw!

simple concept and a brilliant and beautiful execution! That looks otherworldly it's so intricate and geometric

This is one of the best things I've ever seen to have lying on your coffee or end table. Brilliant work.

Instant follow and amazing video! I love this. Thank you for sharing your process!

A very, very beautiful work. You are a man of a thousand arts. Congratulations.

These are beautiful. Amazing job!

The best pour results I've ever seen. Never thought to use pla for lose wax

This is real art. Refreshing. Nice work.

Cool project. Very clean. Great attention to detail!

Thanks, great workmanship and technique!