Casting Silver Jewelry

Casting or founding is shaping of metal by melting and pouring into a mold. Casting of silver jewelry is consistent and time effective but it is only a means of reproduction. It's a good designer and a method of producing that first master sample that is necessary for success in the jewelry casting business. Top of the line casting equipments are utilized to produce the silver jewelry.

The two most common problems in casting silver jewelry are fire scale and porosity. Silver jewelry is vacuum cast in a neutral gas environment which helps eliminate both of these problems. The use of hi-tech casting equipment gives the quality and consistency to provide with a silver jewelry that keeps the customers satisfied.

Process of Casting Jewelry
Most castings, especially large ones, are made in sand molds. Sand, mixed with a binder to hold it together, is pressed around a wooden pattern that leaves a cavity in the sand. Molten silver is poured into the cavity and allowed to solidify. Permanent metal molds are used to make many small, simple parts; shell molding gives greater accuracy for a large volume of semi precision parts. A two-step process, investment casting, produces small, complex shapes. Wax or plastic replicas of the parts are molded in accurate metal molds. When the whole mold is heated, the replica melts, leaving behind a cavity into which silver is poured.