The Lost Wax Casting Guide: Definition & Process

The Lost Wax Casting Guide: Definition & Process
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22 December 2023

The material and equipment used in the process of Lost Wax Casting are Safety gear: protective glasses and leather gloves; Wax: microcrystalline, paraffin, or beeswax; heat gun and texturing tools; casting metal; gram scale; volumetric flask for water, vacuum chamber, kiln for burnout, crucible, flux, torch, etc. Without using these types of equipment and materials, it will become hazardous.

Investment casting or Lost Wax Casting is a metal-forming procedure that has been in use for over 6,000 years. Artifacts such as sculptures and furniture made with lost wax casting have been found in Egypt, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Israel, Mediterranean, Nigeria, and the Indus Valley. The oldest and famed lost wax-cast object, an idol or talisman, was created in the Indus Valley, which is around 6,000 years old.

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