best homemade metal foundry

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for a metal foundry for solid steel ?

You can buy graphite rods, if you get one that is 4-6" diameter you can turn it on a metal lathe and make a crucible, turn a lid to match. Should do fairly well in a furnace, forge, or giant rocket stove!

You can take the rods to a machine shop too, it makes a terrible mess!

I went looking at Youtube and there is some awesome talent running around there.





And then you can become a YouTube celebrity!

I also found a link to Mother Earth News Metal Foundry

This guy talks about the various aspects of foundry stuff Metal Casting for the Beginner

Maybe you want to try Green Metal Melting

Look up iron bloomery furnace , they are a clay one time furnace used to make primitave iron from ore, actually now that I think of it they are a rocket stove of sorts!

You get a bloom of iron that once wrought out on the anvil makes.....wrought iron! But steel is just iron with carbon levels that exceed what is considered iron.

Simplest homemade metal foundry