Jewelry casting: part 2
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Jewelry casting: part 2
Okay I’m inserting my mold, as you can see I’m going to burn out here, the wax is no longer in here and I have an open cavity for my metal to be pushed into. Tighten those up. What I normally do is light the torch while that metal’s still hot, get it ready to melt again. Your metal cools down while you’re grabbing your flask, that’s okay just re-heat it. Keeping it around that metal as to not boil it, of course use gloves. It takes a good amount of time to get used to what your metal needs to look like before you insert it into your mold. If it’s not completely molten then you end up with incomplete casting. If it’s overheated of boiled you end up with a lot of ferocity which is basically little holes in your casting and many other issues can arise. Give it a little shake. Get it moving there. And also take a graphite stick, and stir it up make sure it’s all molten and together before you let it go. Now what I’m going to to do shake it up, drop a pin and basically when I let go it’s going to shoot that metal into my cavity. Sterling silver, usually it takes a few seconds to cool once it hits that flasks it pretty much takes its shape and you find out what you ended up with there. Let it keep spinning so it can cool naturally. And then we remove that flask that I just shot that metal into and quench it in some water and then pull out your piece.
Okay I’m inserting my mold, as you can see I’m going to burn out here, the wax is no longer in here and I have an open cavity for my metal to be pushed into. Tighten those up. What I normally do is light the torch while that metal’s still hot, get it ready to melt again. Your metal cools down while you’re grabbing your flask, that’s okay just re-heat it. Keeping it around that metal as to not boil it, of course use gloves. It takes a good amount of time to get used to what your metal needs to look like before you insert it into your mold. If it’s not completely molten then you end up with incomplete casting. If it’s overheated of boiled you end up with a lot of ferocity which is basically little holes in your casting and many other issues can arise. Give it a little shake. Get it moving there. And also take a graphite stick, and stir it up make sure it’s all molten and together before you let it go. Now what I’m going to to do shake it up, drop a pin and basically when I let go it’s going to shoot that metal into my cavity. Sterling silver, usually it takes a few seconds to cool once it hits that flasks it pretty much takes its shape and you find out what you ended up with there. Let it keep spinning so it can cool naturally. And then we remove that flask that I just shot that metal into and quench it in some water and then pull out your piece.
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