Lost Wax Casting Ceramic Shell

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Lost wax casting ceramic shell. Sculpture crafted directly in wax cast using the lost wax ceramic shell technique. Typical slurry consists of silica flour suspended in a solution of ethyl silicate. The shell bakes and the wax is melted lost from the shell. The main form will be made by casting and combining two hollow wax shapes cast from plaster molds then.
This creates a hollow ceramic shell mold. The ceramic shell mold is a single use waste mold system. Students will create a wax sculpture then invest and cast it in bronze. After dipping the assembly is coated by sprinkling it with very fine silica sand.
The surface detail reproducible is much smaller better as the silica has a much finer grain size. The material of the lost wax casting method is made of refractory slurry such as silicic acid or silicone rubber binder and other materials to make slurry liquid and mix with zircon sand and mulgrain sand are sequentially covered in the wax tree outside after repeating several times of dipping slurry fluid sand and drying to form a layer of similar ceramic shell after the formation of the. Ceramic shell casting material for the production of ceramic shells for the investment casting process a slurry is created from combining a liquid binder refractory flours and sands. Thus the phrase lost wax casting comes from the process of the wax being melted or lost from the shell.
The positive of the form to be cast in metal is first created in wax which is then dipped repeatedly in a silica slurry that slowly builds up to the desired thickness. The oldest known example of this technique is a 6 000 year old amulet from indus. The ceramic shell is placed in a kiln and fired. Students will use a variety of techniques for working with wax.
A self supporting ceramic shell mould about 6mm thick is formed all around the wax. Lost wax casting also called investment casting precision casting or cire perdue which has been adopted into english from the french is the process by which a duplicate metal sculpture often silver gold brass or bronze is cast from an original sculpture. The wax pattern assembly is dipped into slurry of ceramic or any refractory coating material. A ceramic slurry made from colloidal silica and fused silica flour is used as the binder in this molding system.
One wax is needed to make one shell mold for one casting. Ceramic shell is another technique often used in art casting. Whether ceramic shell or plaster is used to make the shell the wax is a positive which must disappear in order to create a cavity or negative for the bronze to fill. The ceramic shell mold is removed from the kiln and immediately the molten bronze is poured into the shell.
This is the second mold or negative in the lost wax casting process.