Melting your gold at home

Never done it, always wanted to though...I found some scraps of 10k wire this year after a festival where a jewelry making booth must have [email protected] fooled with lost wax casting just for giggles making fishing lures out of lead and whatnot, so gold should be about on the same lines...I hope somebody here has a method they share, it would be fun to melt and make something out of a few small rings...
Mud