I had planned to do some comfort bird carving-whittling with a visiting friend; but time constraints meant that we did a hour or so of working with melted recycled pewter see below.
The work included pouring some hearts and stars (see opening photo); but also pouring cottages and peace button in moulding sand - see process-progress photos below. I love the photos of the forms being pressed into the sand; and metal pouring or about to pour. The pewter was heated to 550 degrees.
A photo of the final stash of hearts and starts follows.
Cottages and peace buttons with the sand brushed off with a brass bristle brush.
We were amazed that we got so much done in quite a short period - though I did a bit of preparation by getting the furnace heated and the first crucible of metal melted.
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