Friday, June 27, 2008

Semi-finished Pieces

Some pictures of my "fresh out of the investment" silver rings. These were all cast from wax in my class that is now finished :(


This piece was cast from 3 pieces of wax. The texture was created by using a heated dental tool.











A diamond in the rough and an experiment with curves. The three dots need to be drilled out. When the wax was formed they were hollow, but the silver filled the holes when it was cast.







In this shot, you can see what is left of the sprue on the top right corner. This will be sanded smooth and again, the dots will be drilled through.



The "Collection"

Thursday, June 5, 2008

More Castings

More casting pictures...







the inside of the kiln


Heating the metal

Pouring the metal into the flask

The cooling flask