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2. Lost-wax casting - Wikipedia

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   Illustration of stepwise bronze casting by the lost-wax method. Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) [1] – is the process by which a duplicate sculpture (often a metal, such as silver, gold, brass, or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture.

3. Centrifugal casting (silversmithing) - Wikipedia

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   Centrifugal casting, or centrifuging, [1] is used as a means of casting small, detailed parts or jewelry. [2] An articulated arm is free to spin around a vertical axle, which is driven by an electric motor or a spring. The entire mechanism is enclosed in a tub or drum to contain hot metal should the mold break or an excess of metal be used.

4. Bench jeweler - Wikipedia

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   A bench jeweler is an artisan who uses a combination of skills to make and repair jewelry. Some of the more common skills that a bench jeweler might employ include antique restoration, silversmithing, goldsmithing, stone setting, engraving, fabrication, wax carving, lost-wax casting, electroplating, forging, & polishing. [1] [2]

5. Metal casting - Wikipedia

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   Small art pieces such as jewelry are often cast by this method using the lost wax process, as the forces enable the rather viscous liquid metals to flow through very small passages and into fine details such as leaves and petals. This effect is similar to the benefits from vacuum casting, also applied to jewelry casting.

6. Rio Grande (company) - Wikipedia

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   Rio Grande, a Berkshire Hathaway Company since 2013, offers jewelry-making supplies. While specializing in silver findings and fabrication materials, the company also provides metalsmithing tools and equipment, jewelry displays and packaging products, jewelry workbenches, casting machines and kilns, soldering and welding torches, gemstones ...

7. List of How It's Made episodes - Wikipedia

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   Lost-wax casting: Automated machines: December 7, 2002 ... Wax figurines: Hot air balloons: January 25, 2006 ... Slate products December 10, 2015 26-13: 338: Channel ...