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The start to my senior degree project at the Rhode Island School of Design. A series of rings I have sand cast: a modern take on "stone setting" and traditional processes.

Sand casting is among the oldest techniques of duplicating items of jewelry. It is simple in terms of equipment, but casting requires practice. “In my first attempts at casting, I perhaps got one useful piece of jewelry from ten specimens, but now it is nine out of ten,”

Sand casting method plays an important role in the production of large metal forms to those goldsmiths who take the time to master it. Learn more!

Sand casted plaster ornaments

My studio assistant, John McGeen, and I started making molds from the Duchamp Readymake chess set on Thursday. You can see that we started with a cast iron flask with cope and drag halves. This particular mold has an opening formed into it for a pour hole and "button". It uses rolls pins for the indexing of the cope and drag. For our "sand" we are using delft clay for the molding process. I usually figure out where my parting line will be and then I create a board (with a cutout in the sale…

Learn to Do Aluminum Sand Casting: MSFN = Makin Sumthin From Nuthin ! A Detailed Video Aluminum Casting Lesson Covering Everything You Need To Know As a Beginner Metal Caster To Get Started. A Start to Finish Video. Starting With An Idea and Casting Up a Finished Project….. Watch The…

Quite a lot of attempts at casting in place a stone with a ring blank I made… think either the metal isn’t hot enough… or the entry between the sprue and...