Mold Making


Jewelry makers frequently use rubber as a mold making medium. Learn how to work with this material and how to evaluate different types of rubber.

Cuttlefish Casting Method

Cuttlefish Casting Method

Cuttlefish casting is a quick and fairly accurate casting method. Its applications are limited only by the thickness and overall...
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Natural Rubber or Silicone Rubber?

Natural Rubber or Silicone Rubber?

Natural rubber or silicone rubber? In the world of lost wax casting, this question is hardly an academic one. The...
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Creating a Rubber Mold

Creating a Rubber Mold

Recently this
 custom ring design
 came to my bench
 with the request that 
it be made in platinum and a...
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Using dental mold-making materials in jewelry making

Using dental mold-making materials in jewelry making

Jewelers are always molding objects and parts, most often to use for making wax models for casting. There are many...
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Casting an Orchid Flower

Casting an Orchid Flower

Everybody scampers for executing orders in a rush against all odds to satisfy customers or - if you'#39;re lucky -...
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The Art of Mold Cutting

Mold cutting sounds simple enough: Using a sharp knife and a simple tool, such as a can opener or a...
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5 Classic Casting Tips

5 Classic Casting Tips

These slow, quiet days of summer are always a good time to review your shop practices before the busy holiday...
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Cutting a Rubber Mold

Cutting a Rubber Mold

In my first article I made a rubber "sandwich" mold of this basket style mounting. The focus of this article...
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Molding Alternatives for Jewelers

Molding Alternatives for Jewelers

Jewelers need to make molds of objects and parts frequently. Usually wax is poured into the molds and the results...
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Wax Model Carving

Wax Model Carving

Recently a customer requested that we make her an unusual mother's ring. She chose a magnificent 3.56 ct. oval blue...
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Using Dental Mold-Making Materials

Using Dental Mold-Making Materials

Jewelers are always molding objects and parts, most often to use for making wax models for casting. There are many...
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Testing the New HD Patterns

Invented by Victor Joyner, a Chicagobased manufacturing jeweler, patented High Definition (HD) Patterns are made of a light-curing polymer material...
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Precious Metal Clay 101

There are two brands of metal clay available today; Precious Metal Clay and Art Clay Silver. There are a lot...
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Spiral Cut Technique for Rubber Molds

Spiral Cut Technique for Rubber Molds

n this installment we present a mold cutting technique called a spiral cut, which is designed to facilitate the successful...
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Oval and Marquis Gemstone Layout Method

Accurately laying out an oval or marquis stone in wax can be tricky business. We learned this foolproof method for...
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RTV cylinder mold cutting of Akron rtv-rp

RTV cylinder mold cutting of Akron rtv-rp

Mold cutting Akron RTV-RP clear silicone. Cylinder mold was cured in a round film canister which saves about 1/2 the...
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Testing the CAD/CAM LMR Mold Compound

Testing the CAD/CAM LMR Mold Compound

The new Romanoff LMR is a clear silicone RTV (room temperature vulcanizing) liquid mold rubber compound with a platinum-containing catalyst,...
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Jewelry Designs: Maya Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Maya Pendant

Welcometo Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece ofjewelry...
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Natural Rubber Mold Making Tools

Natural Rubber Mold Making Tools

Tools for making natural rubber molds.
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VLT flat cut 7 circuit pendant

VLT flat cut 7 circuit pendant

Flat cut silicone mold using Castaldo VLT rubber.
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Cutting a rubber silicon mold technique

Cutting a rubber silicon mold technique

The company Alkiviadis C. Efthimiou is active in the jewelry industry since 1987. Over the past 15 years we became...
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Jewelry Designs: Raindrops Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Raindrops Pendant

Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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