Bronze Casting: The Lost Wax Process 

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Hi Camilo, what are you using for investment/ceramic shell and dowels/nails/chaplets?

I was taught it "the East German way", and I have never seen it done that way anywhere else. Strange since it's a better, more effective/fool proof way.

I'm here too for that reason

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3:55 no it's removed

You mean the chapelets? It is to hold the inner core plaster in place. Without the metal nails or pins, then when the wax melts out, the core will become loose and drop. So you need the nails to suspend it in space. You want the molten bronze to fill the lost wax space between the external plaster and internal core. If the internal core is not suspended by the pins, it will drop and there will be no space between external & internal plaster towards the bottom for the molten bronze to go. You'd only end up with a half-statue. So the pins suspend the core up in space and makes sure the molten bronze goes all the way around. Of course, by having the pins, the final bronze statue will have a few little holes (where the pins were). So part of the final stage is plugging those holes with tiny bronze plugs.

hahaha lol

The core is broken out and the gelatin is there to prevent the mold from sticking to the sculpture

+Camilo O'Kuinghttons If you were joking then ignore me. It is not called "Lost Wax" because we forgot how to do it. It is called lost wax because you end up completely removing the wax (when you melt it out). The wax gets "lost" in a way.

The technic is called "Lost wax" derived from losing the wax from the mold.

hahaha ... that's not what is meant by "lost". we didn't lose the method, we lost the WAX! lol

Thanks sir