All about creating Custom Jewelry
Written by aditruhai on May 28th, 2011There are generally to ways to have your own piece of custom jewelry produced if you want to create one and the first way is to go to a jeweler that makes custom jewelry and have them produce it to your specifications. The other way to get it done is to create or sculpt it yourself in wax and then have a jeweler cast it in gold or silver for you.
This is basically the way that most all rings and bracelets are made, although there is finishing work that needs to be done after it is cast, the basic form of the creation is determined in wax. Its called the “lost wax method” and has been in use for thousands of years. Your idea is first created using wax or dental wax sculpture. Bible Study Software . Standard paraffin wax won’t do because it is too hard and stiff and beeswax is too soft.
The wax ring or bracelet is then given the jeweler who then encases the wax sculpture in plaster. After the plaster that surrounds the wax ring or bracelet is cured and dried it is placed in a hot kiln so the wax piece inside of it can melt and burn-out. Bible Reference . Affiliate Sales . What is removed from the oven is a piece of chalk quarry which has the shape of the ring or bracelet in it where the wax.
Jewelers use a centrifugal caster that spins around as the molten gold or silver is forced to place blank piece of plaster by the centrifugal force. After the gold or silver inside of the chunk of plaster has been allowed to cool the plaster is chipped away to reveal the piece of jewelry where the wax ring or bracelet once was.
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