Hey Tetnum,
Keep at it, Jim and I have been pouring metal together for ten years and there's always something to go wrong - you just need to work past it. Thats a big part o' the fun.
The day they taped the video nothing went right - we lost a motor on one furnace and had to switch over to another mid-melt - the bubbling of the metal you see in the vid is due to wax left in the mold from an incomplete burn-out then we had a break out (cracked mold allowed molten bronze to escape) run all over the floor. You just can't know what effect it has on the piece until you break the molds apart.
The fella taping the pour loved it because it all looked so dramatic on camera - we were thinking: "great - we look like a bunch o' dorks with all these glitches happening"
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