Lost Wax Jewelry Casting Process

The jewelry lost wax casting process begins as a thought in relation to beauty, durability and fine craftsmanship. This thought process prior to the jewelry lost wax casting design creation as a wax sculpture also entails such considerations as weight distribution for comfort,design movement and unrestricted flow of the molten metal. The method of gemstone or diamond setting is also considered and calculated into the overall jewelry casting art design concept.
The fine jewelry designs are then hand carved and sculpted using special jeweler's wax and small intricate carving tools. This step of the lost wax jewelry casting process is essential to the creation of a truly unique and tastefully artistic piece of fine jewelry art sculpture and can take many hours of very fine carving and shaping to create the perfect jewelry lost wax casting form.

The sleek,simple and elegant fine jewelry art wax carving is then placed in a metal cylinder which is encased with a water soluble plaster called investment. The investment liquid solidifies and the wax jewelry art design is then placed in a kiln. The kiln goes through a high to low temperature cycle lasting several hours. At the end of the kiln's burn out cycle the wax jewelry sculpture has melted out leaving a well defined hollow "fossil" in the plaster.
The hollow impression replicates and replaces the shape of the wax jewelry sculpture that was burnt out,hence the term, lost wax casting.

The metal that is to become the jewelry piece is melted by torch with tremendous heat. Using centrifical force, it is flung into the hollow lost wax cast impression in the plaster mold. The metal is allowed to solidify.

Once the water soluble investment mold is broken away, the unfinished piece of the fine jewelry art casting partakes in many hand finishing and polishing steps. After the finishing steps are completed, the lost wax casting jewelry design sculpture of our sleek,simple and elegant fine jewelry art is ready  to receive finishing adornment such as precious gemstone and diamond. The fine jewelry art design casting of unique wearable art is now ready for your wearing pleasure and visual enlightment.

We hope you find this explanation of the lost wax jewelry casting process helpful. It is designed to provide a brief overview for the curious and to provide a useful background in what is entailed in the creation of a wearable piece of fine jewelry art sculpture. The lost wax jewelry casting process as a fine art medium requires an in-depth fine arts background combined with great technical skill compiled with many years of experience.