Burning Out Wax: Casting Bronze Sculpture

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Gary Mitnik. I'm a sculptor here in Sedona, Arizona, and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. Okay, we're going to lift up some new ones. Okay, we lifted the shells up in about five minutes and in maybe about five seconds you're going to start seeing the wax flood out of these shells into the catch basin and into our scrap wax bucket. We throw all that away. It gets stinky, nasty, and unusable. Start flooding faster and faster before long. Before it, to start melting, but once it starts melting it's going to melt quick and you're going to see a flood coming out of there before long. And sometimes it overflows out the side where we can't catch it, but that's why we have all that under there to soak it up. There it goes. Now we have to stay out here and watch it in case of fires because we certainly don't want to catch the wilderness on fire. So we make sure that, no fires start underneath or in the wax pot. If they do, we'll throw sand on it to dowse that or we'll cover the wax to put it out."