Castaways and cutouts fill it up.

I thought I'd show some before-and-after photos of casting.

The images on the right are in wax and the ones on the left are after casting, in metal.

These are some cicada casings I found and filled with wax.

They are cast in bronze. Most of the legs actually came out,

which is really cool (and means I sprued them well!).

These are stacking rings that I cast in silver.

The metal is dark because it oxidized during the casting process.

Once I cut them off the sprues and clean them up,

they will be recognizable as silver.

Here are some gears, cast in silver.

Here they are interlocking with each other.

I still need to cut off the sprues and smooth them out.

I made a few more lathe-turned pieces. These are even smaller than the ones before.

That's a good thing, because I cast them in gold.

Here's the torch I use to melt the metal for casting.

In the background, you can see the crucibles for melting the metal in.

This is a centrifuge for casting.

You can see the crucible for holding the metal

and the weights that help the whole thing spin.

The spinning is what draws the molten metal into the flask.