Day 61

Started my day off with a wonderful breakfast of fryed eggs on a role with cream cheese and sautéed sage. I love daylight savings. Then headed to ceramics to for a full class of glazing. Next I modled for the drawling class as I was draped aginst the wall I have the statue of Appaloosa and Daphne projected over me. Hand and hand wih Apollo ;). Then spent the next few hours getting ready for the bronze pour and finding out the me and Iris are now pouring. At 5 we started up the furnis as the flam roared the crowd started to grow. We had practiced 5 times today it was a flawless pour. I only have to lift 200 pounds of molten metal that's scolding hot out of a furnace into a holder and pour it neatly into the molds. As the metal reached molted we go to start the pour. Well the furnis is to small that the holders don't want to make there way down around the crushable. As the heat swells around us we struggle to get the crushable clamped. Iris jumps in and leans the crusable over with the skimmer and allows us to grasp it. At this point my gloves had started to smoke and my leg was feeling the heat. As the first part of the pour threw us off we aren't on point when we set the crusable into the holder the flux on the brand new crusable is soft and stiky. We go to lift up with the flux has created undercuts for the tongs. Finally we wiggle our way out of it. Iris takes over for Kenzie and we start to pour the molds. The metal is red hot and pours flawlessly. Each mold fils as it should. The crusable is returned and the pour is over. As nerve racking as this pour was the team stayed in there. Thank you to my casting teacher Kenzie, and my fellow students Iris and Manon for being a wonderful pour team.