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Rockdiamond|1296877886|2843630 said:+1 to Chris' excellent and informative post.Chris-at-ERD|1296862357|2843399 said:Love Street|1296859658|2843338 said:OK just to play devil's advocate, my appraiser was discussing how "cast" can also be that the jeweler makes a custom wax by hand, and then creates a mold from this wax, which is then filled with molten metal. So a cast ring wouldn't necessarily be a stock ring - it can still be custom (as with the CAD/casts custom work we see from other vendors here), but there would be a wax and a mold involved.
So I'm curious about whether any part of Leon's process involves a custom wax mold, or whether it is raw pieces of metal built from the ground up and soldered together like Angietaren's.
Hi Lovestreet,
I would like to add a few realities to the art of ring making,so to speak, from my expeirence @ Dvatche and believe will hold true.
There are 4 ways to fabricate jewelry:
1- CAD technology
2- Hand Wax models
3-Silver hand fabricated models
4- Fabricating directly from choice of metal- ex. Platinum ( Hardest process PERIOD. )
Obviously the first 3 require Molds and CAST etc. but does not mean for example....a simple 4 prong solitaire shank ( cast ) could be hand made or done by hand such as a basket and a plate that is hand cut for the base and pulled wire prongs that are tacked on by hand for perfect fit...
Which ever or how ever Leon creates his amazing and beautiful designs can be explained only by him and I for one will always praise his work, so with that said Leon may be alot of different things to alot of differnt people but he is an artist and perfectionist no doubt...
Lots of PS vendors have the ability for Custom but this area falls under choice and personality of the buyer.
Hope this helps clarify some questions.
I also have a lot of respect for Leon- say what you will about his manner, but he has a great eye, and is responsible for very beautiful work.
One other point- there is another method of fabrication Chris forgot to mention- Die Struck.
This is a common method of fabricating shanks and other parts.
It's prohibitive as the cost of the dies used is very high- but the resultant parts are extremely high quality- for example porosity ( microscopic or larger bubbles in metal when it is melted and poured) is virtually non existent in die struck parts
That's because I am not a fan of die struck but concur.
Thanks ROCK.