Flexible & Fast Copper-Based Guide Services
Calumet Brass Foundry provides flexible, high-quality comprehensive guide services. Casting from certified metals, Calumet mixes copper-based metals exactly to customer specifications both large (2,200 lbs) and small (a few ounces). Calumet’s depth of experience and expertise, along with a full line of bar stock, makes 24-hour emergency services a reality, even for projects that need to cast lead.

Calumet stands apart from the competition’s guide services with its ability to safely and effectively cast lead with its copper-based materials. Prior to casting lead, clients are educated (including receiving Material Safety Data Sheets) on the benefits and hazards of lead – especially how lead’s hazards primarily exist in the casting process, not the end product. Since 1995, Calumet Brass has met or surpassed local and federal agency standards for casting lead, allowing clients to experience cast lead’s many benefits, including extending guide life through excellent lubrication.

The Calumet Brass Foundry guide service process is as follows:

1. Clients make contact about their copper-based guide needs, including whether or not it is necessary to cast lead in the mixture.
2. The guide count is verified upon pick-up prior to re-melting, with a pre-determined amount of emergency guides made available.
3. A chemical analysis is performed to verify metal consistency using Calumet’s own certified and calibrated on-site spectrometers.
4. The guides are re-melted and processed with any metal loss replenished by Calumet as needed. Calumet will maintain chemical consistencies based on specifications.
5. Pick-up and deliver specifications are arranged. Wood patterns are stored to maximize pattern life, including periodic maintenance.

Contact Calumet Brass Foundry for more guide service information or questions about hot to safely cast lead, see available sand casting services, or learn more about Calumet Brass Foundry.