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I have to fulfill some orders so I thought I share some sand casting tips since I’ve been casting a lot lately. I’m no expert but I haven’t had a bad pour in a while. 🔥🔥🔥 A few crucial tips when sand casting. 4.) Pack your sand tight 3.) You absolutely need vent channels 2.) 2nd most important step, Make a sprue that isn’t too big or too long. If you do either, the metal could cool down before reaching your design. 1.) The most important step of all, your metal has to be very hot. Once you ...
⚠️The wax melts away… Don’t worry, it is not a wax ring! It’s going to be a solid silver ring. The wax melts away in a process called investment casting leaving behind a cavity where molten metal is poured; silver, gold, brass or bronze. This process is called investment casting and is used with lost wax carving techniques (my style is referred to as the lost wax build up method). 💬Type “WAX” if you would like to learn how to make handmade jewellery using the lost wax technique. It’s perf...
Freyja wax seal signet ring
This signet ring is cast in lead-free pewter. The ring size when cast is 7.25. The sealing image is Freyja riding her cat drawn chariot. This is part of a series of signet rings I am making cast from lead-free pewter. Each master ring is hand sculpted to give a unique, rustic style, multi-dimensional relief image when used as a stamp to seal, with sealing wax.
Petals of Providence - Nook Store x Dead Ivy - W
This collaborative piece will be a limited run of 50 rings and then never to be made again. Each ring will be internally stamped 1-50. Continuing on from out first collaboration this piece was designed in collaboration with our friends at the Nook Store and hand carved by yours truly each ring will be made to order please allow 2-4 weeks production time. "Petals of Providence" is a circle faced signet ring made in solid 925 sterling silver. The rings face engravings of petals surrounding a hollo
Lepus Nocturnis - 6
I remember when as a kid I saw a movie called Night of the Lepus, a vast, wandering movie about bunnies stricken with some virus that made them zombify and grow, all shot from below in lo-fi something or other. Herewith a signet to overcome our fears of a more wishful apocalypse, from Daisy San Luis in sterling silver, set with two tiny diamonds & all hand engraved.
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Wax Carving Tips
Here are some wax carving tips from @dmdmetal - “I use a white or silver paint marker- enamel ones stick best, but can be toxic. I used an acrylic based paint marker. I just had to sand the surface of the wax lightly to make it stick better/ break surface tension. When checking the carving details I use a polymer clay called “Super Sculpey”. Carve, carve, carve, press, look at what I need to correct, rinse and repeat x 1000 😂.” Thank you so much for sharing your technique with us! We really appreciate it!