Lost wax does not insure multiples. You lose the wax you've just carved. You could use a silicone mold to cast your wax, but that's expensive, more expensive than octopus legs anyway.
Having cast insects, paper, corn husks, branches, and other organic materials in bronze and silver, I am confident you could burn out a small part of an octopus.
Sorry, Ursula, you'd have to be a world-class sculptor in order to pick up the surface detail of that tentacle.
Sculpting wax isn't as simple as just mushing it around like an autistic kid as you seem to think. That's like saying anyone could carve David, you just chip away all the rock that doesn't look like him.
You just throw it in a special plaster called investment and let it dry. Then, throw it in a kiln at 1400 degrees and burn out the flesh. Melt in some silver, and presto.
Evolutionarily speaking, a father would want his daughter to be promiscuous. It makes her more likely to mate with a strong male and further his genetic line. So, bullshit.
Furthermore, they'll stay magnetized years and years, but they're brittle. If you let them come together from far apart you run the risk of cracking them.
Having cast insects, paper, corn husks, branches, and other organic materials in bronze and silver, I am confident you could burn out a small part of an octopus.
Sculpting wax isn't as simple as just mushing it around like an autistic kid as you seem to think. That's like saying anyone could carve David, you just chip away all the rock that doesn't look like him.