29 September 2012 Iron Smelting demo - Sculptors Guild - Dumbo Arts Festival

Filmed September 29, 2012, . A iron smelting, and sand casting demonstration by the Sculptors Guild at the Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn. Furnace master Kenneth Payne supervises operations, with Michael Dominick demonstrating one of his molten iron paintings. For about a hour the furnace produced only “cold metal“ until the problem was fixed with an additional air blast pipe. Toward the end of the video an apprentice nearly causes an accident when he uses excessive force to jam a wet clay plug into