Wood Inlay | Foundry - Cast Bronze Inlay in Juniper Branch

In this video I took a Juniper branch, molded, made a wax duplicate, cast in bronze, hollowed out the tree branch and inlayed it back in creating a bronze section of tree.

0:00 intro
0:59 mold prep
1:52 silicon mold
2:50 mother mold
3:40 demold
4:03 wax pattern pouring
4:35 wax demold
5:04 tree branch wood carve out
6:13 wax fit and prefit
7:18 spruing
8:10 ceramic shell coating
8:42 casting prep and burnout
9:08 metal pour
9:43 breakout
10:17 de-sprue and metal prep
11:10 first test fit
11:51 welding to fill gaps
12:25 fixing surface welds
13:02 metal tooling texture back in
14:04 finished metal tooling texture
14:16 buffing polish
14:39 metal finished, display
14:57 finished metal inlay in snow
15:28 dead tree