Already looked at the Mountain Molds but none of their "premade" semi-customs will work for me. Need something rather odd .... where can I have a custom mold made to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Lee will make custom molds. They charge $100 for a setup fee and then the retail price for each mold you get. The 6 cavity molds are a much higher quality than the 1 and 2 cav molds. If you get 25 molds, then they waive the $100 setup fee. If you buy 100 molds, then you get the dealer price.

What kind of weird and unique are you looking for? Something for your new AR-10 fat cats?

Nope, want to cast different profile for my .458, but if this works, can translate it to other calibers.

MartytW,

You might try, Veral Smith at LBT.

Hog Killer

I believe Mountain molds will make any mold you want. Don't they have a section on their site where you can design the mold you're looking for? I haven't been to their site in a while, but I know they used to.
There were a few of us on the now defuct Shooters.com who had a custom mold made up for .35 caliber rifles of the Whelen type. It was literally a minor variation of the Lyman #3589, a 280 gr. bullet. Supposedly, about 20 people wanted in on this, but as it turned out, only six of us put our money where out mouths were. The mold maker was David Mos, the molds were $100 for a single cavity and $125 for a double cavity. I've heard he doesn't make molds any more, but that could be wrong too as things do change. Too bad as that is one of the nicest molds I own.
I can never remember the exact URL for the site but it's either cast boolits.com or castbullets.com. Mountain Molds is one of the sponsers there, so you might want to go thefre and look around.
Paul B.

Hoch, Lee, Victory molds That's all I can think of at the moment. Someone told me Applegate got out of the mold business. Last I heard Veral only did "standard" designs but that may have changed.

Mountain Moulds does indeed have a section where you can design your own within certain limitations. Had them cut a .450 paper patch, straight sided, mould for me that casts and shoots great. Would reccomend them. M...

I'd recomend mountain molds if he'll make what you need. His prices are reasonable, and he makes a mold as good as anyone. I'd recomend the steel sprue plate, the only thing I don't like is the aluminum sprue plates, I also prefer aluminum over brass for the blocks.

The Mountain Mould website suggested in the FAQ that if it is not on the "semi pre made" part of his website, that they won't make it. Victory on the other hand seems not to have any such statement. We'll ask both and see who wants to play ball

Marty, if you can design what you want on MM's online design program, Dan will cut it for you. He won't design it for you, and he won't cut a mould outside the parameters of the design program, but that program covers a lot of country.

Yeah, I guess I am just having trouble with his online system doing what I want, or it simply means it is outside of his parameters. What I want to do is a little out there I guess ... not as wacky as considering mixing tungsten powder with my molten lead and trying to cast that ...

I was talking with Dan the other day. He stopped doing the total custom as it takes way more time than doing the semi-custom design your own and he is working loooong hours trying to keep up with the demand.

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Originally posted by MartytW:
What I want to do is a little out there I guess ...

Okay, I'm interested, what is a little out there?
Do you want an hour glass shape like the Barnes 50 cal?
Or an inverse radius for the ogival flat point?

Is this out there?

Nope, not even close. I have exited left field, crossed the parking lot and am a few blocks down. If I were starting at Minute Maid Park (Houston Astros) I would be in the Bayou by now ...

Sent an Email to Victory describing my intended project, depending on their answer, I will post it here

I have one of the double cavity 358009 Imporved that David made. One of the finest moulds ever produced!

I don't know if the information on this page is current, but you can try:

http://www.geocities.com/custombulletmoulds/davidmos.html

Not taking away from anyone else, but David is a very good mould maker. sundog

I have had good experiences with Dan and his program does everything i need, but there are some things that don't work in the system that he uses. It is no criticzm, just how it works. I plan to do all my "non-standard" stuff with him and doubt i will ever need anything that he doesn't do; but knowing a little of what Marty does, i can imagine this to be a different situation.

Attabpoy Sundog!

I had thought before of mentioning to you guys that you should consideer one of the mould makers who lathe bore. They apparently can vary shape and size easily. I just received a new .45-70 mould from David Mos and it is a thing of beauty in terms of workmanship, is dimensionally correct and will outlast a whole pile of Lee moulds.I have worked with another of his moulds in .32-40 which when up to temp threw bullets which fell within .3 gr over 200 or so bullets.
I have had a mould made for me by Steve Brooks of Montana who also uses lathe-boring. He was a bit more expensive than Mr. Mos but also very good and nailes the dimensions.
If you can sketch what you want and provide the dimensions mould makers like these guys can tell you if it is something they can or want to do. They are a bit expensive but may help you avoid the cost of several less cheap moulds trying to find the right thing,and for only a bit more money than the set-up charge for the inexpensive Lee. My experience is that you will not believe the difference between casting with one of these moulds and a factory made one.