Today I went to go pick up the castings of my wax carving you saw on my first post here. Do you remember my little blue wax paisley shape I carved?I am waiting by the casters "receiving" window:

As you can see from the ginormous NO CREDIT sign, they liked to be paid immediately.This is what I picked up:

These castings are in sterling silver and came from a mold. I carved a large and small paisley for which one will be a necklace and the smaller one earrings.Here is what the molds look like. The wax is made into a mold then metal is poured in. That is how I received silver pieces.

This is the large size paisley that you saw in my photos from my blog series 1.Next, I go to my production company to have them polished since the silver pieces you saw above is rough silver, unpolished.

He has a bowl of water next to him to dip the metal since it gets hot when polishing. Each piece must be polished by hand, individually.

A polisher only does that same job all day. Each person has a specialty within a production company.

This is George. He does all the soldering which means he puts chains on pendants and adheres metal together.If a jewelry designer were to do all the steps above, one piece would take a very long time and cost quite a lot. By having specialists, it saves time. In addition, I love to keep labor opportunities in the US, namely New York City.
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This has been very interseting to see how things all come together.
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