Here at Joyworks Studio we work on a lot of fun and exciting things. Sometimes we need a little help. That was just the case as we are preparing for a University of Michigan laboratory module. We want to experiment with casting yellow 60/40 brass against a chill but we only need a couple of hundred pounds of the, now expensive, alloy. Heck, if you want to buy a ton of the stuff…..no problem. You can buy it at a hundred different places. But do you think we could buy a few ingots of it? No way. That’s when Mike Galvin and the folks at Buck Company came to the rescue. Buck Company is a great foundry company located just outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania that works in both ferrous and non-ferrous alloys. They make components in everything from bronze to Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI). Mr. Galvin, Buck’s Metallurgist / QA Manager, was able to arrange to sell us a small batch of just the right stuff. Thanks for the help Mike! It has been a wonderfully “Galvinizing” experience.
If you want to learn more about the folks at Buck Company you can visit them at www.buckcompany.com. Check ‘em out.
(PS- If you happen to be a distant relative (like I am) of George Taylor, a colonial foundryman, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, then Mike’s the guy to talk to. He knows all about the George Taylor house in Lehigh County Pennsylvania and is glad to share. Now I’ve just GOT to go there.