At it’s core, here are the steps involved in lost wax, or investment, casting: Make a pattern ... blocks, ring blanks, and others. There are some real nice carving tools out there which I ...

At it’s core, here are the steps involved in lost wax, or investment, casting: Make a pattern: a wax or plastic replica of the part you’d like to create in metal Make a mold: pour plaster ...

In some cases, additional strips of wax are made to form rods that are attached to parts ... In the chapter Lost-Wax Casting from the book Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of ...