Kick ‘n Cast places their reputation on high quality castings of precious metals for the jewelry industry. From mold making to machine finish, all steps are performed and scrutinized by artisans with over 20 years of experience.

Jewelry Casting Using Lost Wax Technique

The process starts by making a mold of your original artwork. Room temperature vulcanizing molds are created for delicate prototypes while hard rubber molds are used for metal masters. The molds are precision cut making them production friendly with sprues attached and seam lines in inconspicuous places.

Hot wax is injected into the molds and plastic like models are created in the image of the original. What separated Kick ‘n Cast from other manufacturers is the care taken in preparing the waxes for casting. Air bubbles, seam lines and flanges are removed and smooth surfaces are polished with solvent. Wax models are sprued to casting tree in proper form to eliminate porosity.

High Quality Jewelry Manufacturing

A metal cylinder called a flask is placed around wax casting tree and investment plaster is poured into flask surrounding models. Flasks are then placed into a steam chamber and the wax melts out of the plaster creating an exact opposite void inside the flask. Flasks are then placed inside a kiln and slowly heated to 1350 degrees F to eliminate water and wax residue from plaster. After 14 hours the kiln temperature holds at 1100 degrees F and then silver parts are cast with vacuum assisted machine. Gold and thicker silver pieces are cast at 900 degrees F.

Plaster is removed from metal tree and individual pieces are clipped and ready for metal finishing. All castings are individually inspected. Sprue stubs and blemishes are removed. Castings go through four types of media and 28 to 30 hours in the tumblers.

Finished pieces are inspected again then counted and packaged for shipment.

Other services include fusion findings (sparkle parts). Ear posts, clip backs, and pins can be attached via spot welding quickly and economically.