1. Lost Wax Casting

2. Select type of wax

3. Mrs. Pearson will cut your wax to width

4. Size the inside of your ring

5. Tools for shaping your ring

6. Using the Jewelry Saw

7. Filing the Wax

8. Heating tools for wax

9. Weigh your wax model. Wax cannot exceed 1.5 grams.

10. Multiply your wax weight by Ten. REMEMBER WEIGHT!!!

11. Cut sprue, ¼ of an inch long, weigh with wax ring

12. Sprue up

13. ½ inch from top of wax model to top of flask

14. Measure Flask of Water

15. Water should be ¼ inch from top

16. Pour the water into the rubber bowl

17. Add powder until you have an island

18. Have fun mixing

19. Add powder until you have a pancake batter consistency

20. Vibrate bubbles out

21. Slowly pour the investment in; avoid pouring directly on top of the ring

22. Fill to the top

23. Vibrate your flask

24. Let it dry, mark your initials, period, and the weight you need in metal.

25. Leftover Investment O Let the leftover investment dry in the bowl O Do Not pour investment down sink O After the investment is dry, put in garbage

26. Overnight burnout

27. Reheat to 900 degrees F to cast

28. Wind the centrifuge 3 turns

29. Put metal into crucible

30. Put flux on metal and start heating

31. Get your hot flask from kiln and set into the cradle

32. Heat metal until liquid

33. Get it hot

34. Let it spin

35. Check for a full sprue

36. When not red quench in water

37. Pull metal from flask

38. Find the sand blaster

39. Don’t forget to turn on the air

40. Spray it off with sand

41. It should now be clean

42. Cut sprue off with the Jewelry saw

43. File and Sand

44. Buff your piece

45. Your piece should almost be finished

46. Make last minute fixes and turn it in!! Yeah, you have just completed your 1 st cast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!