After doing a couple successful casts using pewter we thought we’d try getting a little more advanced by using copper and/or bronze. The challenge is that we don’t have a proper crucible for melting the copper. Here’s our attempt to melt it in a small cheap cast iron pan:
It looked like it might actually work, but moments later…
I was hopeful that I could control the temperature to be somewhere between the melting point of copper and iron, but that’s only a few hundred degrees difference so it was probably futile.
We really just need a good ceramic crucible but it will probably take at least a week to receive one from an online order. I guess we’ll have to find other projects to keep us busy until then.
