How to Make Your Own Jewelry : Jewelry Casting: Part One
Written by Jewelry on November 20, 2009Watch as a veteran valuables artist casts fiery china in to jewelry. Expert: Courtney Gray Contact: www.courtneygrayarts.com Bio: Courtney Gray is an artist as well as veteran valuables builder who creates valuables from a pattern theatre all a approach by to a last product.
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5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
that was a usesles vid
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Nice Videos Thanx for the Info, Goldmantx
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
lol
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Are you serious? it’s a spring, a ceramic crucible, a washtub, and a balancing mechanism. I can go to my grandmother’s house, and get everything I need to make this in an afternoon, because she hasn’t thrown anything away since 1934. The crucible can be made with a fire resistant clay, or bought for relatively cheap, since it’s reusable. All that’s left is to have the cast, which you would have anyway for this project.
Do you always talk yourself out of doing cool stuff because you’re lazy?
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
how to make your own? yes because everyone has one of these casting machines mmmmmmmmmmm
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
To cast silver the flame has to be a wide and soft and about 6 inches from the crucible, that will make a very good casting, and don’t use boric acid the boric acid it’s just to clean the metal before the casting, in the casting process you have to use borax.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Does vacuum casting solve that problem?
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
as far as EV goes, this one is oscar worthy in comparison. most of the others are, as far as i can tell, a combination of ego-stroking and self-advertisement with little practical information given at all. not all, but there’s apparently little quality control involved. they may be experts, but they ain’t teachers, that’s for sure.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Thanks, that’s what I figured unfortunately.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
So this vid just sucks less than their other sucky vids.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Centrifugal casting can be used for very complex shapes.You would need aditional sprues. You would be better off using two sprues on the bottom of your w shape. As a rule of thunb you should never have parts of your model point backwards against the flow of metal. You should avoid right agles in your sprues too. You want the flow of metal to be as smooth as posible.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Excellent video here thanks. I have a question for you though. With centrifugal casting, can you do complex shapes?
For instance, just as an example if you were making something with a W shape. And your sprue was attached to the center peak, would the left and right sides fill with metal? Or would you end up with a /\? Will the air on the left and right sides be forced out? Or would you need additional sprues?
Hope that question makes sense. Thanks!
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
She really should have protective gear on when she is casting.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
well, you have to melt metal before you cast it, so the title so far is correct. it does say ‘part one,’ after all. and it’s not her fault that you’re not listening to the other information she’s giving you.
expervillage vids usually suck as far as i’ve seen, and i’ve seen my share, i think. they don’t give you enough information and by the end the final product tends to magically appear from a poorly explained process.
this is one of the better EV vids if you ask me.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
How lame, all she did was melt some metal. She didn’t even do the casting.
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
“fine” silver? what is the meaning of “fine” here? please help! thanks !
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
ya Iam sur you did it wow go back to school
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
what type of classe are u taking ???
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Shut up douche bag, If you ever used one of these then talk!
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
reefturkey,put up your own goddamn video
if you aint happy
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
I’m really enjoying these videos! since I going to be studying Juwellery Design soon, I find these videos very interesting! good work!
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
cuz fine silver isint stong like 925
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
why not use fine silver?
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
…then, there’s your videos. One is of soldering a plate, and the other is melting gold. Very well scripted, I might add.
Blatant Egotism. I don’t think so. It’s a video on YOU TUBE for christ’s sake!
5:30 am on November 20th, 2009
Good videos. Kind of hard to find all the ones to put together in order, but good when ya do!
Such a tiny amount of molten metal is way too little to even hurt you even if it ignores the laws of physics & flys out of there
Them people that are worried about your safety should have a gander at my videos! Now, that’s SRSLY some dangerous stuff..