I recently completed a short introductory course to the lost wax casting technique for creating jewelry (I will begin a more in-depth course this fall). I promised to post a blog about the process and ...

Wax casting is the process by which a copy of a metal sculpture is cast from an original sculpture. Detailed works can be achieved by this process. The oldest known example of this technique is a ...

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Formlabs is announcing a new version of its Castable Wax, that’s targeted toward jewelry designers and makers. Castable Wax 40 is, as the name implies, a 3D-printable resin made up of 40 percent wax, ...

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* Sculpture is cut into pieces and covered with liquid silicone rubber, to make several two-part molds. * The original sculpture is made of a wax-based clay called plasticene. * Sculpture is cut into ...