http://www.artmetal.com/tags/ceramic_shell The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.artmetal.com/blog/blackdahlia/2007/10/ceramic_shell_casting_for_jewelry <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p>Greetings - Has anyone here adapted ceramic shell casting to a jewelry casting environment? If so I would like to try it in lieu of investment casting. I would appreciate it if someone knowledgeable could share the formula for the ceramic slurry and the process for building up the shell/mold.</p> <br class="clear-both" /><!-- google_ad_section_end --> <p><a href="http://www.artmetal.com/blog/blackdahlia/2007/10/ceramic_shell_casting_for_jewelry">read more</a></p> http://www.artmetal.com/blog/blackdahlia/2007/10/ceramic_shell_casting_for_jewelry#comment attached crucible casting ceramic shell small scale casting Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:31:38 -0500 BlackDahlia 4290 at http://www.artmetal.com http://www.artmetal.com/blog/daniel_rotblatt/2007/10/cores_for_ceramic_shell_casting <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p>New here - hope I'm doing this right! I have a question about cores for ceramic shell casting. I teach a foundry class, so I am no newbie. Generally for hollow pieces I cut out a section or make sure the piece is designed so that the center will build up a shell and be able to dry properly. But, I am now doing some foundry work for another artist out of my studio of some small animal figures. These are a little too big to cast solid (though I can if necessary), but a little too small for a large enough opening to allow the shell to make a strong core -- soooooooo.....I have been looking into using some sort of core material.</p> <br class="clear-both" /><!-- google_ad_section_end --> <p><a href="http://www.artmetal.com/blog/daniel_rotblatt/2007/10/cores_for_ceramic_shell_casting">read more</a></p> http://www.artmetal.com/blog/daniel_rotblatt/2007/10/cores_for_ceramic_shell_casting#comment bronze casting bronze sculpture ceramic shell core lost wax casting Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:14:13 -0500 Daniel Rotblatt 4230 at http://www.artmetal.com http://www.artmetal.com/blog/sean_colson/2007/05/tip_for_pour_cups_for_ceramic_shell <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p>The best way I have found for using the Shellspen ceramic shell system, and pour cups. Is to not put your cup on the end of your sprue. Instead coat your sculpture and sprue system completely, dipping the entire piece into the slurry. Leaving a stub where your cup will be. Also at the same time your start slurry coating, slurry coat a circular dixie cup, on the outside only. (Dixie cups, like the ones your find with those water bottle systems everywhere, they also make a larger size Dixie cup which works great!) When you've completed all your slurry coats, and your ready to de-wax, simply take a coarse blade hacksaw, and/or a small grinder, and grind off the end the sprue stub, (to where the wax is exposed), where your pour cup will go. Then take your Dixie cup, remove the paper cup from the inside, ( the side you did'nt coat ), and match up the size of the sprue it will be attached to. And cut, or grind off the end of the cup, ( now in ceramic shell ). Then de-wax the the scupture and the cup, unattached. After de-waxing, set up your sculpture in your pre-heat</p> <br class="clear-both" /><!-- google_ad_section_end --> <p><a href="http://www.artmetal.com/blog/sean_colson/2007/05/tip_for_pour_cups_for_ceramic_shell">read more</a></p> http://www.artmetal.com/blog/sean_colson/2007/05/tip_for_pour_cups_for_ceramic_shell#comment ceramic shell pour cup Wed, 02 May 2007 09:45:50 -0500 Sean Colson 3631 at http://www.artmetal.com