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Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery: Crafts Series, #2
Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery: Crafts Series, #2
Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery: Crafts Series, #2
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Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery: Crafts Series, #2

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Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery -- Cast and fabricated jewelry is a book of jewelry photos of Joyce’s unique contemporary art jewelry. There is a bit of metal jewelry making instruction, but not much. Mostly, she just wanted to show you the designs to give you some jewelry ideas for your own work.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 30, 2015
ISBN9781513078687
Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery: Crafts Series, #2

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    Enjoyed the designs and the informational asides. Both of the Handcrafted Jewelry series show jewelry designed to inspire your own ideas.

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Handcrafted Jewelry Photo Gallery - Joyce Zborower, M.A.

Cast Jewelry—Lost Wax Technique

Each unique wax model was slowly built up –drop by drop—by melting wax over an open alcohol flame on the blade of a re-purposed dental instrument. Creating each wax model took many hours and, sometimes, several days or weeks to get it just right. The model was then encased in a plaster-of-Paris like substance and heated to melt the wax (leaving a cavity for the metal). Then the metal was melted and injected into this cavity.

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Bat-Lady Ring

14k Yellow Gold with Synthetic Alexandrite

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Wax Model for Bat Lady Ring

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Raw Gold Casting for Bat Lady Ring

Before showing you the rest of the cast pieces, I wanted to show you the three stages that every piece of my cast jewelry goes through:

(1) building the design in a very specialized kind of wax, called Peck’s Purple;

(2) removing the metal from the casting medium and thoroughly washing it under running water. Those delivery tubes to get the metal to all parts of the model (called sprues) are still attached to our ring. They need to be sawed off with a specialized saw blade and the attachment points smoothed and sculpted to match the original wax model;

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