[ale] Elliott Street Pub Iron Pour this Friday 22:00

[Robert Coggins]

This is a nice little pub and I hear the iron pours are tons of fun!

Rob


On 11/10/2010 10:16 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> This Friday at 10 pm the Elliott Street Pub (
> http://www.elliottstreet.com/ ) is having their monthly Iron Pour.  I
> have made and delivered a mould for this event and look forward to
> witnessing the spectacular creation of my object.  The pub serves beer
> and food, and this should be an entertaining and dramatic event.  Iron
> melts at a little less than 3,000 degrees fahrenheit, so expect lots
> of light and energy release.
>
> I assume that you will also be able to buy the kits for iron pour
> moulds there if you want to create something ( I bought mine on a
> Saturday afternoon several weeks ago). The mould kits cost $20 and
> consist of a 7"x7"x2" square of "Casting Sand" ( basically a hardened
> mixture of sand and clay) with a 5"x5"x3/8" cavity formed in them.
> You can take the kit home, carve your design into the cavity, and
> bring it back to the Pub in time for the next monthly pour. I suspect
> but haven't verified that if you get there early you can simply make
> your mould there before the pour as well.
>
> The sand-clay mixture is quite soft but very abrasive -- I'd use a
> nail rather than my nice pocket knife to shape it. Remember that it's
> a mould, so if you intend to put words or letters on your thing they
> will have to be carved in mirror-image to come out correctly.  I found
> it helpful to draw what I wanted on a piece of paper and check it in a
> mirror before I started carving.
>
> The Elliott Street Pub is located just on the northern edge of
> Castleberry Hill, a small arts district a little bit South and West of
> Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta.  Address and phone is:
>
> Elliott Street Deli&  Pub
> 51 Elliott Street
> Atlanta, GA 30313
> (404) 523-2174
>
> The easiest way to get there by bicycle is to get to the intersection
> of Centennial Olympic Drive and Marietta Street (the SE corner of
> Centennial Olympic Park, across the street from CNN Center). Go South
> on Centennial Olympic Drive past the parking lots for the GWCC//CNN
> Center across MLK Jr Drive and over the bridge over Mitchell Street to
> the first Left ( Chapel St SW).  This street is one-way the wrong way
> for cars, but you can walk your bicycle East on the sidewalk for 1
> block and then turn left again to be within sight of the Elliott
> Street Pub, just north of the fire station.  It's the only business on
> the block between Chapel Street and Mitchell Street, so it's easy to
> spot.
>
> It's also a fairly short walk from the Garnett Street MARTA station,
> although you'll have to find your way over some railroad tracks.
> Check Google Maps for details on this.
>
> In a car, you can probably go down 1 more block and take the left at
> Nelson Street, then follow its 1-way across Chapel Street to the pub.
> There's a small pay parking lot across the street from the Pub, but
> you may have to seek parking further off depending on how many people
> are actually there.
>
> -- CHS
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