Abstract: A method of producing a metal mold is disclosed. A heat resistant sheet is forcedly brought into close contact with a product configuration surface of a matrix such as a wooden pattern, a resin model, or the like by making use of negative pressure. The matrix is brought into contact with a melt of a low melting-point alloy while that state of close contact is being maintained and the melt is allowed to cool as it is, thereby casting one part of the mold which makes up a pair. The matrix is then removed, and by using the one part of the mold thus cast as a new matrix, this new matrix is brought into contact with the melt of a low melting-point alloy via the heat resistant rubber sheet and is allowed to cool as it is, thereby casting a counterpart of the mold that makes up the pair.

Abstract: A sprayed member which has a ceramic-sprayed layer formed on the surface of a parent material of an aluminum alloy through a sprayed bond layer. A diffusion layer occupies 20 to 50% of the entire interface between the bond layer and the parent material. The interface between the diffusion layer and the parent material and the interface between the bond layer and the parent material are finely roughened to have a height of several microns. The diffusion layer and the fine roughness are formed by preheating the surface of the parent material at a temperature ranging from 260.degree. to 500.degree. C. prior to spraying the parent material with a material for the bond layer so that they can together enhance the adherency between the bond layer and the parent material.