Creative Casting: Jewelry, Silverware, SculptureCovers the major methods of casting metals that are applicable to crafts including techniques for lost wax, replica, hollow core, sand, cuttlefish bone, and rubber-mold methods. |
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alloy applied areas asbestos bezel blade boric acid brush buffing and polishing burn-out burnished casting flask casting machine centrifugal casting clean coated color completed compound cone constructed cool copper crucible former cuttlefish dental diameter dipped drilled edge eliminate enamel filed filled finishing flame flat flux furnace gemstones gently gold graver handpieces heated hole hollow core inner invested flask karat large castings Lost wax lost-wax casting main sprue mandrel melting point metal surface mold frame mold sections mold surfaces molten metal mounting nitric acid notch ounces oxides pattern chamber pickling solution placed plastic poured powder pressure produce prongs pulley removed require resin rinsed rubber molds running water sand casting shape Sharr Choate sheet smooth solder spatula sprue sprue pins sprued Sterling silver stone sulfuric acid tapered temperature thin tion tongs tool vacuum vents vulcanized wax model wax wire wheels