Are there any particularly good books to read or videos to watch when it comes to molding, casting, and making your own jewlery like rings, bangles, and necklace pendants?

Everything now kinda sucks and all the cool accessories of yesteryear go for $500-$1k, so I figure it's best to just learn to make my own at this point and develop a useful skill while I'm at it.

>>2920640 (OP)
Steve Erikson Malazan series is a great set of books.

>>2920640 (OP)

>>2920640 (OP)
acquire 3d model of thing
3d print thing
make cast of thing
melt metal into cast
clean up casting
???
jewelry

>>2920839
>>2920876
Awesome, thank you. Tracking down some copies now
>>2920879
Eyup, that's the game plan. Helps to be proficient in /ic/ and /3/ already. My ultimate goal will be to make some of the DMC4 rings that are long, long out of production.

>>2920885
I’m too lazy to track it down now, but there are some scanned copies floating around online.
Do some googling, or try Anna’s Archive.

>>2920839
Lol, just looked these up. Looks like we got some /lit/ in here too.
>>2920892
Honestly, I don't mind buying a copy as itll be easier to keep near me while doing it as well as highlighting and writing notes in there. Been watching a lot of sand casting videos and it seems easy enough, but there are some things they don't really go into. Even filing and sanding, things like how big the hole you make to your mold, just various small things like that. Still, it doesn't seem like the hardest thing in the world, but those are always the famous last words.

>>2920885
If you have the ring you can get a high level 3d scanner or ask a company to scann it for you

As for 3Dprinting there is resin for sla printers that is castable. You can watch 1 youtube vid on how the process goes and your good. Print, burry in sand/ceramics?? (Dont know the material in englisch) You can then smelt the resin right out. Polish and put stones in if you want. Its rather easy.
Sla is the way to go they have the nececairy resolution. They are toxic tho so keep the vent on

>>2921234
Nah, sadly I don't. Those rings are looooong gone so I'll be modeling something similar in blender then doing the process you describe.

It'll be kinda nice though. A lot of the IP's I want subtle mens jewlery of are either long gone or don't exist so I'll be able to stretch my creative muscles a bit.

>>2921399
https://youtu.be/dcV7SdkrpaM?si=rv-5k0QQUrCxuW1A

Also, I liked this particular. Pretty clear cut and concise. Another one I found had a lady not making the additional holes and the thing she was working on ended up coming out an absolute mess are requiring a ton of cleanup.

>>2920640 (OP)
KYRIE! KYRIEEEE!!!!

>>2921521
3>4>5>1

And 2 gets a very special mention for a very special (ed) game.

Anyone know how you'd go about doing a cast of intricate patterns like this? Seems like if you pulled a similar mold out of the sand it would lose the pattern.

>>2921671
for me it's 4 all the way. tried 5 but i was too old to finish it. this fuckin scene gets me every fuckin time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_OwNfSXIRg

>>2921672
Make the band mold with pattern flat, once cast reheat and bend to shape.

>>2921947
3 is technically the best, but 4 is the best in my heart. Repeated levels and all. Getting the SE was like a dream come true just short of the full intended game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOwyUWZJZpE&pp=ygUVc2hhbGwgbmV2ZXIgc3VycmVuZGVy

>>2922222
But wouldn't I need to "cut out" the places for that intricate pattern? Is there a way to actually get it in the mold or do you just sort of eyeball it? As of now the whole process seems super simple but getting intricate designs and patterns perplexes me just for the fact that when you pull them out of the sand it's going to drag the design out and warp it.

>>2921672
You would do a plaster cast. Unfortunately I can't really give any recommendations on what formulation of plaster to go with because it's apparently all secret fucking voodoo and I can't find any solid answers, only a bunch of he-said-she-said and I-heard-one-time. I just know that regular plaster of paris sucks because it loses most of its integrity on heating, so if you're doing lost wax the mold becomes incredibly fragile or just crumbles before you can even do the cast. There are all kinds of conflicting opinions on additives to help with that and sorting through them is frustrating.
I'm trying to do a two-part mold for a somewhat big (for the home shop) bronze cast, and the research has been frustrating.

>>2922710
Have you tried asking Chatgpt for some ideas to refine your method? Kind of a cop out but it may be better than sifting through pages of failed experiments.

>>2922768
I'm not sure I trust any of the stochastic parrots to give me a good answer on this either

>>2922768
i once asked chatgpt:
- how could i lift a big console (160lb when fully empty) for repair.
> use a car jacker.
- ok but the legs are 30cm tall, and the car jacker only goes up to 30cm when fully extended, meaning it's too short to lift the thing.
> you'll need to place the car jacker under the console, bring it to full height, then lift both the console and the car jacker and place an object underneath them both.

trust me. the average advice you get from humans, is way better than a know-it-all e-dildo.

>>2920640 (OP)
Depends on how professional you want to be. Simple casts can be done with regular clay, better ones with sand or plaster.
Also, if it just has to look the part, there's 3D-printing materials that conduct electricity (carbon-black filaments, for example) and resin recipes with histamine iirc that will attract copper from solution. Either can be electroplated.

nero dmc mentioned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

i cant really giv u advice on how to make jewellery but i know u can make bangles with spoons (like with the part u hold)

look into that because it seems suuuuper cool and some spoons have very pretty intricate designs so theyd make beautiful bangles.

>>2922710
I guess at some point you branch out into the more specialized territory which is why some of this stuff costs so much, trail and error+experimental materials. I guess I can see why some of it would cost more. Least I've got some direction to go off thanks to the thread. Gonna skip the sand casting as if isn't really going to be much help on the types of things I wanna make and look into plaster/wax loss methods. Might even go the traditional route a couple times without the 3d printer. I'm just glad I'm working on a smaller scale. What you're working on sounds tough and expensive, but I bet it'll be worth it. Like I said, once you figure it out it sounds like you'll be able to charge a pretty good price or it.
>>2922800
>>2922800
Professional enough to create something similar to >>2921672 and >>2920908. Like I said earlier, I already have a pretty solid foundation in traditional arts and crafts, but recently just think mens jewlery can (or did) look pretty cool and figured it might be worth getting into making and selling. Just wanna learn to do it right so I'm building on a solid foundation.
>>2922805
I have. It's always awesome with silverware jewlery as they have intricate patterns that look cool and are usually very affordable. Still, being able to make my own from the ground up and having complete control over the shape and form is the ultimate goal.