Casting Round One!

Day One of Casting!

Molten Momma Amy and Meticulous Metalsmith Taylor
are first up in the flinging of metal this morning.

Enough alliteration?



Our wax models have been burned out.
The flasks and crucible are to temperature.
Metal had been weighed and flux added.
Time to light the torch!!!





There is nothing like the smell of acetylene in the morning.








This is the metal in the crucible.
The crucible is pointed toward the flask.
The flask contains a hollowed model inside investment.
Investment being a fancy-pants word for plaster.







And now: Fire.







Erinn is kindly stirring my molten metal with a carbon stick.






The hand switch in progress:
Swapping the torch to my right hand to lower the lid of the casting machine with my left.

The lid being lowered engages the machine.
Cheers to centrifugal force for whipping my metal around and into my mold's vacancy.




Quenching the flask after the machine has spun down.


Finally the big reveal as to if you have a metal object d'art or a giant blob o'metal.



Darth Erinn is calmly applying heat to her crucible.
Erinn had much success in not casting blobs of metal.


Sherri has no comment.




Two of Megan's successfully cast spheres.
Two of Sherri's blobs. I mean two of Taylor's blobs.