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2. Finding (jewelcrafting) - Wikipedia

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   Ring blanks for making finger rings; Bails, metal loops, and jump rings, for completing jewellery. Jump rings can be used by themselves for chains; Pin stems and brooch assemblies; Tuxedo stud findings, letters of the alphabet, cluster settings, metal beads and balls; Plastic, fabric or metal stringing material for threading beads

3. Lost-wax casting - Wikipedia

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   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. Intricate works can be achieved by this method.

4. Jewelry model - Wikipedia

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   A jewelry model is a master design that is copied to make many similar pieces of jewelrey. The model may either be a piece of actual finished jewelrey or a low-cost blank fashioned from base metal. In either case, the model is used to create the casting mold from which all subsequent pieces are made. Prefabricated models are available from a ...

5. Bench jeweler - Wikipedia

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   See lost-wax casting, which article has a sculptural inclination, though the principles are the same for jewelry casting. The cast pieces will likely need a variety of work done to them, including filing to remove the skin left from casting and prepare for polishing, straightening parts, rounding and sizing rings, and assembling many various ...

6. Engraving - Wikipedia

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   The majority of so-called engraved designs on ancient gold rings or other items were produced by chasing or sometimes a combination of lost-wax casting and chasing. Engraved gem is a term for any carved or engraved semi-precious stone; this was an important small-scale art form in the ancient world, and remained popular until the 19th century.

7. Investment casting - Wikipedia

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   Inlet-outlet cover of a valve for a nuclear power station produced using investment casting. Investment casting is an industrial process based on lost-wax casting, one of the oldest known metal-forming techniques. [1] The term "lost-wax casting" can also refer to modern investment casting processes.