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Lycurgus Senior Member Offline [ch924][ch927][ch923 ][ch937][ch925] [ch923][ch913][ch914 ][ch917] Posts: 445 Coventry, England Gender:	Cuttlefish Moulds Mar 26^th, 2010 at 1:09pm I was talking to a chap at the weekend who says that you can use Cuttlefish "bone" as a mould for casting lead. Aparrently it does not burn at the temperature of molten lead. Has anyone tried this or heard of this before?
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3485 UK	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #1 - Mar 26^th, 2010 at 1:15pm Never heard of that before. Not easy to get hold of, I imagine.
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kuggur slingdog Ex Member	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #2 - Mar 26^th, 2010 at 1:31pm Nope very easy; pet shops, canaries apparently eat the stuff. Never heard of the possibility of using it for lead casting.
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LukeWebb Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 801 New Brunswick Canada Gender:	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #3 - Mar 27^th, 2010 at 1:17pm Yup, my brothers birds are chewing on two of 'em right now, they eat them for the calcium content. I will have to keep this in mind if I want to make some lead shot.
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Et Cetera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks Into Windows! Posts: 1550 Gender:	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #4 - Mar 27^th, 2010 at 4:30pm Are they hard to shape into the right shape for a mould?
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Rockman Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1267 Lima, Peru Gender:	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #5 - Mar 27^th, 2010 at 7:20pm Et Cetera wrote on Mar 27^th, 2010 at 4:30pm: Are they hard to shape into the right shape for a mould? They're very soft, you can use anything sharp to carve into them, I remember those things.
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aztec Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 858 Gender:	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #6 - Mar 27^th, 2010 at 8:14pm ive made pewter cross's and necklaces this way..its really easy to do and a fun fact, at the begining of lord of the rings the fellow ship you can see them pouring the gold in a cuttlefish mould to make the ring heres an older pic i have. its one of the cross's
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #7 - Mar 28^th, 2010 at 8:05am at the right time of year you can pick up bags of cuttlefish bones of cornish beaches. we used to bring them back for the neighbours birds. The texture is a bit like that oasis garden foam stuff but harder. you can pretty much shape them with your fingers.
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Lycurgus Senior Member Offline [ch924][ch927][ch923 ][ch937][ch925] [ch923][ch913][ch914 ][ch917] Posts: 445 Coventry, England Gender:	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #8 - Mar 28^th, 2010 at 6:09pm That looks like a big yes then, Haven't got a clue when I will be able to get around to giving it a go.
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Woonilsra Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1611	Re: Cuttlefish Moulds Reply #9 - Mar 28^th, 2010 at 8:17pm i took a jewelry class in highs chool this year and we used cuttlefish backbones to make molds. but our teacher told us that they can only be used once, but maybe thats not true if you just want some solid design, and its not intricate.
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