My husband, Ben, teaches at the
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, a public residential high school for emerging artists. When he told me they were going to be doing a bronze casting, I immediately grabbed my camera, hopped in the car and drove over! I am hoping to document the entire process: wax sculpting, spruing, layering the ceramic shell investment, burn out, casting, clean up. But for now, here are some images of the casting...
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Melting the ingot in the furnace
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Removing the crucible from the furnace (look at that glow!)
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Pouring the motlen bronze into the molds
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The metal cools
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Replacing the crucible into the furnace