For most of my adult life I've worked with metal in one form or another. I am so fascinated with it's obvious nature and it's hidden secrets. I've bent, formed and molded metals of all kinds, but nothing compares to being on the pouring floor of a foundry. Watching the furnace master mix the various ingredients to melt down and slag off so the my partner and I could catch this mystical elixir of earth elements in our ladle so that we could pour the newly formed metal into the sand molds. The heat ...