You, perhaps, are beginning to think of Pennsic. We are too! Mac began casting stock in earnest on Sunday, and today he took advantage of nice weather to reclaim (outdoors) usable pewter from the dross we skim off the pot as we cast. That’s 10 pounds, 15 ounces of good pewter. There were also 2 pounds of unusable dust and crud. This leads to the interesting observation that nearly 85% of the dross we have to clear to cast conveniently is actually usable pewter. Although we are careful about where we put our skimmings when we cast a different alloy or pure tin, we routinely use the reclaimed metal in heavy, thick pieces where tiny variations in the resulting alloy cannot cause any trouble. Most of this is scheduled to be turned into our larger buckle frames.