This book contains an overview of the basic skills and techniques most commonly used in hobby metalcasting. While it is by no means a comprehensive presentation of any subject, nor a scholarly work that reveals some new insight about metalcasting, it is designed to serve for beginning hobbyists as a tutorial to help them learn about the hobby; and for more experienced hobbyists as a reference manual and guidebook. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.