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Learn how to create wax molds to mass produce a piece of your jewelry. Expert: Courtney Gray Contact: www.courtneygrayarts.com Bio: Courtney Gray is an artist and professional jewelry maker who creates jewelry from the design stage all the way through to the final product.

im trying to make something like this..

http://i30.tinypic.com/ms2h7a.jpg

please dont get into technical terms because i really dont know much about metal and metal works.

id just like to know how to make a mold like that, and how much it would cost.

This is a demonstration on how to cut a castaldo rubber bracelet mold for the lost wax jewelry casting mass production process.

Learn how to make your own jewelry molds so you can make the same design again and again. Expert: Courtney Gray Contact: www.courtneygrayarts.com Bio: Courtney Gray is an artist and professional jewelry maker who creates jewelry from the design stage all the way through to the final product.

Which are the ingredients and what is the proportion of them to make a good molding material for aluminium foundry?

Nothing expensive, please.

I’ve seen on the internet where people use a pile of sand packed tightly to impress the object they want to cast and pour the molten metal into the hole in the sand. Even with fine sand, this does not produce the smoothest surfaces and sometimes the sand becomes embedded in the casting. I knew someone who cast pewter statues and he used this green foam-rubber looking stuff to make molds. Anybody know what I’m talking about?

I saw this on a show called “How it’s Made”. All I know about the mixture is that the gasses are extremely flammable.