some 400 years ago this site next to the Bom Parto Fortress was home to an artillery foundry run by renowned Portuguese Manuel Tavares Bocarro, who cast bronze and iron cannon considered to be ...

If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...