Casting for Jewelry

About the Course

This three part course will guide you through the lost wax casting process from creation of wax models to pouring molten metal with the aim of creating your own custom jewelry components and multiples. Casting for Jewelry will provide practical knowledge in creative casting, carving tool basics, and a thorough step by step immersive experience with the lost wax casting process.

Continue your work by joining in on Support Hours offered weekly on Wednesdays in the Jewelry Studio with Caroline Gore.

• The Cave of Treasures by Dave Schneller from Santa Fe Symposium Papers
• Before Lost-Wax Casting: A Look at Traditional Jewelry Manufacturing in Pforzheim, Germany, Using Sand Casting by Jurgen J. Maerz from Santa Fe Symposium Papers
• Casting a Perfect Defect by Patrick Sage, Eddie Bell, Rob Traylor & Dr. Alex Verdooren for Rio Grande from Santa Fe Symposium Papers
• Casting Notes for Silver Lost Wax Casting by Ken Moore for Ganoksin
• Casting an Orchid Flower by Sandor Cser for Ganoksin
• Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity’s Most Transformational Process by Liesbeth den Besten Netherlands from Art Jewelry Forum