In our shop we have a 100oz bronze casting furnace, a buffet table that can melt pewter, a toaster oven that can do low temp glass enamel and in my studio we have a bead annealing kiln since I'm a beadmaker. Yeah, my husband got his laurel in the SCA for making stuff.

I haven't used the bronze furnace but have been there when it has been used but I have done quite a bit of my own pewter casting. Though I really, really need to get back to beads.