How to Cast a Wax Ring in Gold

last time we talked about exactly how we carve one of these signant rings from wax and this time we're going to be going over the details on how to turn it into 14 karat white gold and the first step is taking some sprew wax twisting them together and then welding them together with a wax pen and this is what the Gold's going to travel through to get to the signate ring once we have it all welded together we're going to melt the end of it and then add it to the tip of our signal once we have it on there we're going to clean up the edges and make sure the wax is connected everywhere exactly where it needs to be then we'll cut any excess [Music] off now we'll shorten [Music] it and now we're going to attach it to the base of one of our flight TKS so the first thing we do is melt some sprw wax in the middle of it and then push it down into the melted wax and then again clean up the areas to where it's a nice smooth flow from one to the other now we'll press our flask down onto the base and wrap the top with tape so that way the investment doesn't get splashed around in the next step [Music] and now it's time to mix up our investment and I'm using 5.3 flu ounces of distilled water and this is a time thing so we need 3 minutes of mixing time and this is our investment it's RNR Ultra vest and I'm using 404 G of it we're going to be mixing it for 3 minutes and once it's all mixed we'll Degas it with our vacuum table and what we're going to do is we're going to let this get down to the lowest vacuum we can get and then you'll see the investment start to rise as soon as it starts to bubble and then break down hit it for about 10 seconds and then it's all degassed [Music] now we'll pour it into our flask then repeat the process again so vacuum it it'll bubble and then break and then we'll hit the table for about 10 [Music] seconds once that's done we will leave it set undisturbed for 2 hours once the 2 hours is up we can take our tape off take our base off then put it into our oven and we're going to be putting it into our oven with the sprew facing downward so the wax can melt out of there and then burn off it's going to be in the oven for about 10 hours and while we're waiting we'll make some casting grain and we're going to need 58.5% fine gold the rest of that's going to be this white gold alloy here and we're going to also add some 14 karat white gold that I used last time which is the sprw the button off another casting we need to make sure this metal is there so that way we can fill up that sprew and that button and have a little extra we always start by melting the highest melting temperature metal first which is fine gold once that's melted then we'll add our alloy and once our alloy is melted with the whole thing we'll add our sprew and our button and the reason we do this is that way we know that there's nothing hiding in there that's unmelted because that can cause problems in bit of cast it'll also make your Purity not exactly 14 karat which is what we're always shooting for you can see I'm moving it around with a quartz rod that's to ensure that there's nothing in there and that's also removing some impurities will attached itself to the quartz rod and get it out of the mixture [Music] once we have that we pour it from a distance into a full bucket of water and this is going to create the casting grains now what we do is drain off the water and then pour our casting grain onto a paper towel for it to dry does dry and the flask is ready to come out of the oven we'll grab our white gold Crucible put it into our spincter and then wind it up and we'll put our flask in and we're also going to put a piece of metal that goes between the flask and The Crucible and what this is going to do is going to stop any gases from going through that little hole into the flask we don't want any impurities getting in there we'll only take that little piece of metal out of the way right before ready to let the gold shoot into the flask [Music] at this point the metal now has been forced into the flask by centrifugal motion and we're going to check to see it filled [Music] right then with white gold we let it sit for about 5 to 10 minutes for it to cool down before we quench it white gold is a little more temperamental and can get brittle and crack if you quench it too [Music] [Music] early and now now we take our hay maker saw and cut the sprew and the button off keep an eye out for the next video where we start to finish this thing up