11 years

Today is the eleventh year of my self employment, It all started on April Fools Day.....This was our first casting, that's Larry on the right and me assisting. the flask we cast in that picture blew out while pouring it. It sucked the silver down into the plastic vacuum line in the off the shelf casting machine. From that day forward we never used another off the shelf casting machine. They always had to be modified to suit the what we were doing. We ended up building our own vacuum casting table, it has been used almost every day for the last eleven years. That's about 2700 lbs of metal. Larry built that machine and many others we still use today.....


Larry passed away December 1st 2005, the first photo is the very first casting we did together at his house, the next is the very last photo ever taken. He is deeply missed, I hope that somehow he is reading this.........