--- product_id: 5260113 title: "Making Crucibles" price: "₱3939" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5260113-making-crucibles store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Making Crucibles **Price:** ₱3939 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Making Crucibles - **How much does it cost?** ₱3939 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5260113-making-crucibles) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 64 pages. You'll learn about how crucibles were made a century ago, making a PVC mold, clay composition, ramming up, firing the crucible, making crucible tongs, making a concrete mold, making a mold press, safety rules and precautions, and more. The only fancy piece of equipment you'll need is a lathe to create the wooden mold. Vince uses his metal lathe, of course, but a wood lathe will do the job. Review: Excellent for the do-it-yourself tinkerer - This book explains making ceramic crucibles in your home shop. Crucibles are not always easy to find and they are very expensive. For a small scale foundry they are easily the biggest expense you have. The crucibles you can make using this book are not commercial quality, but they are your own product and very cheap to produce. I think they work about as well as commercial crucibles. They just don't last as long. The instructions are concise and well explained. As with all of his books, Vincent Gingery delivers the why as well as the how. I couldn't find the recommended materials but was able to substitute others because I understood why. A very empowering book. Review: Making crucibles - A very good practical book teaching you how to make high temperature crucibles ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #3,715,668 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 94 Reviews | ## Images ![Making Crucibles - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bB2hh2H8L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent for the do-it-yourself tinkerer *by B***N on February 14, 2010* This book explains making ceramic crucibles in your home shop. Crucibles are not always easy to find and they are very expensive. For a small scale foundry they are easily the biggest expense you have. The crucibles you can make using this book are not commercial quality, but they are your own product and very cheap to produce. I think they work about as well as commercial crucibles. They just don't last as long. The instructions are concise and well explained. As with all of his books, Vincent Gingery delivers the why as well as the how. I couldn't find the recommended materials but was able to substitute others because I understood why. A very empowering book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Making crucibles *by G***S on April 8, 2024* A very good practical book teaching you how to make high temperature crucibles ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Short. Simple. Good. *by F***T on June 27, 2013* This book is a good, perhaps essential, supplement to The Charcoal Foundry book. In this book you learn how to make ceramic crucibles, crucible tongs, and crucible glaze. This book also includes a concise list of 10 safety rules, some of which I don't recall reading in the other book. As another reviewer commented, even if you decide not to make your own crucibles, after reading this book, you'll feel new-found gratitude for the store-bought variety. This book emphasizes a basic clay/grog formula for the crucible, which I reckon will not be satisfactory for casting metals with melting points much hotter than aluminum. The book also mentions the basic composition and procedure for making clay/graphite crucibles. Silicon carbide crucibles are discussed briefly, with the implication that they are beyond the reach of the typical home workshop, although they were invented in 1891, so you never know; maybe you could with enough research and preparation. Like other books in this family, the writing is plain and the technical drawings are good. The photographs in this book are extremely helpful; even though they are small and black-and-white. In order to actually execute the plans in this book, you'll need a lathe, drills, saws, taps and/or dies, a furnace or kiln, tubs to mix cement and clay, and an oxy-fuel torch or other method of heating steel to forge the tongs. That list is from my recollection, only. You'll end up needing a lot of other tools and materials along the way. In one crucible mold making activity, two metal pieces are brazed, so if you cannot conceive of an alternate construction for the part, you will need a welder/torch. Your lathe will need a pretty good swing, large enough to meet the exterior diameter of any crucible you'd like to make; and with enough power to shape wood at that diameter. Proper crucible tongs must be forged to closely match the shape of a crucible, to avoid putting unnecessary stress on the hot crucible when pouring molten metal. Since I currently lack knowledge of blacksmithing, I would have appreciated a few more words of advice about how to forge the tongs into the perfect shape. The author gives general advice, and provides a photo of tongs which seem to match a template with impressive accuracy. Based on my limited, childhood experience banging on things with hammers, I'm left with doubt as to my ability to do as good a job as the author. Like operating a lathe, or brazing metal, I guess forging steel is just one of those things I'm supposed to know how to do by now. I guess now is the time to go order some blacksmith books! Anyway, if you're even thinking about buying this book, then go ahead, you'll probably like it, with the proviso that you're expected to have pre-existing competence with wood and metal work. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5260113-making-crucibles](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5260113-making-crucibles) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-05-23*