When Madeline Ellis invited me to spend a morning with her casting Mimosa Handcrafted jewelry, ... She works in a room filled with molds and blue wax models of more than 600 different pieces, ...

When Madeline Ellis invited me to spend a morning with her casting Mimosa Handcrafted jewelry, ... She works in a room filled with molds and blue wax models of more than 600 different pieces, ...

TECH-223 Lost Wax Casting for Jewelry. 3 Credits. TECH-223-01. Monday. 2:00 pm ... Students will learn all aspects of wax working and lost wax casting in a scale appropriate to jewelry. This process ...

Formlabs is announcing a new version of its Castable Wax, that’s targeted toward jewelry designers and makers. Castable Wax 40 is, as the name implies, a 3D-printable resin made up of 40 percent ...

Way too small to make any kind of jewelry. What to do? If you’re ... This involves making the ring from wax, then casting that wax in a mold. The mold is then heated, ...

In my last article on the art of lost wax casting, I discussed how to make an original pendant design in wax, cast it in metal, and turn it into a finished sterling silver pendant. This is something I ...

Wax casting is a common technique used in commercial jewelry-making but is rarely taught outside of art school. It allows jewelers to work with three-dimensional pieces, instead of cutting ...

At it’s core, here are the steps involved in lost wax, or investment, casting: Make a pattern: a wax or plastic replica of the part you’d like to create in metal; Make a mold: pour plaster ...

While each wax anti-type could be used only once, a two-part stone jewelry-casting mold could be used to duplicate the intricate wax model (anti-type) repeatedly. In addition, many of the intricate ...

The other 25 percent is why the process is known as “lost wax” casting. The Metal Once the mold, or shell, is complete, all that remains is to refill it with molten metal.