How do you cast brass?
pretty much as you cast other metals.
You prepare a mold for your metal, which contains a hollow space which corresponds to the form you want the metal to take.
Depending on the complexity of your form it may be easiest to do a sand mold (simple shapes) or use the lost wax method (complex shapes).
You put metal bits into a crucible and heat it up in a furnace until it is molten. Using tongs you remove the crucible and pour it into your form.
That's just the outline, but then your question is very general. Depending on the scale you want to work the exact methods and needed equipment differ. There are a number of books which explain metal casting processes, I remember one I read when I started out was called "from clay to bronze" but there are many others as well. If you want to work at a jewelry scale a jewelry/metal working techniques book will have the specific information for that.
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