Mouse Jeweller's Work Bench

[slashpot]

Fantastic work mate! Great to see some more industrial use of ZB, Ive used it for modelling large equipment and it just keeps getting better for that purpose. As 3D printing improves this will certainly get more popular.
I love your early Art Nouveau style pendant, absolutely gorgeous curves and leaves, youve inspired me to try out some jewellery design myself! Thanks heaps for the vids and explanations, very much appreciated by lots of people!
Looking forward to following this thread, great stuff!

[m0delista]

Fantastic please show more !!!!

[rubyscooby]

I wonder if Protowax uses precocious metal clay for you silver versions? I did some hand sculpting with it and it looks the same after it's fired but before polishing as in your image. It's pretty hard to work with though and not that cheap. Anyone have any ideas of places similar to Protowax in the states?

[everlite]

Truly beautiful. To repeat what others have said, its amazing to see something used in a completely unexpected way.

[c4th]

Thanks for the support guys. there might be another technical video coming soon

@rubyscooby@ that finish on the metal is the left over from the plaster used in casting process. ive used silver clay a few times, its very good if you combine it with press molds ... as for a protowax in the states, im sure there are loads, you just need to look them up.

HOWEVER

a while back looking through the interwebs. i found these guys from the states

http://www.exone.com/eng/technology/...tal/index.html

i dont know much about the process but they are a direct metal printers. as in the machine prints in metal (how???? i smell witchcraft). i think they print in precious metals

hope that helps

[c4th]

tadar im starting to get the hang of this. this is a very art nouveau piece. based around a peacck feather. i will be setting some kind of stone in the middle and hopefuly getting enemal in the freat work.

mostly done with shadowbox, snake hook, and transpose

hope you all like it ^_^

[zoomus]

Hello***65292;I come from China, the zoomus, and glad to meet you!!!!! Do you use the machine turned what is the mould fabrication? I want to know about some turn mould related to the material? Hope you provide the ~!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

[c4th]

Hello***65292;I come from China, the zoomus, and glad to meet you!!!!! Do you use the machine turned what is the mould fabrication? I want to know about some turn mould related to the material? Hope you provide the ~!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

i hope im reading this right.

i use protowax to fabricate the inital waxes which are cast in silver and i then use a Vulcanizing rubber for the moulds i take off that master. ill try and get a picture.

hope that helps

[Volodja81]

Hi Zoomus! Watch this and you may find a couple on youtube!

[c4th]

well today was a very interesting day. I cast about 15 rings today was a fantastic experience and something I’m trying to learn.

the process is this I made a tree for casting which is a long bit of wax which you melt the wax models on. This is then put it in a plaster mould which was vacuumed to prevent casting bubbles.

the mould was then cooked to 700 degrees to get the wax out. then the mould is put in a centrifuge with a crucible of molten silver. the centrifuge flicks the metal into mould and tadar... all very scary for some one who hasn’t done it before. and here are the picks of the finished things

[everlite]

I cant wait to see how these look when finished. So whats the next step now you have the tree, i mean, right now they look pretty ugly looking in that state though i understand this is part of the workflow.

Also, how accessible is the physical workflow to someone who wants to reproduce Z sculpt in this way without prior experience of working with metal.

Thanks
Dave.

[c4th]

umm... well you can find companys that will do all the work for you from inital master making all the way through to a short run...

but because they are doing most of the physical work their prices are very high.

although price verses quality if you tryed to do it our self can be worth it if you going to do a run of 10+ but for one offs its more worth it to ask some one like me who has the contacts and could get it made for you cheeply

so its up to you.

but there are companys who will do the lot for you

[c4th]

Well it’s taken months of work, but I'm finally ready tostart selling my jewellery. So get your selves onto my website and see what I haveavailable. All products come in a presentation box so they make a perfect giftfor your self or a loved one..

http://www.mousejeweller.co.uk/#!store

thanks again for all the support guys. couldn't of done it without you

[Etcher]

Good luck with the shop - look forward to seeing more works!

[c4th]

Tadar.. the satrt of my stone set ring collection. losely based on a tree stump in my garden. more photos to follow once i get it made