In my previous essay, I displayed my 8-inch mold from our family heirloom "circa, 1934" statue.
As it was too large to cast & to clean being in one piece, I disassembled it into smaller pieces. I'm going to show how it can be cost effective & will be explaining this process further in this, my 385th blog-essay.
As many of these wax-pieces are solid, I must 'separate & carve' them to avoid the expensive casting costs.
For now, I will prepare another wax statue just for this process. As these pieces have been sitting in various containers for many years and some pieces got lost or destroyed.
I will ask my caster to inject my 8-inch mold as I need to locate the missing parts of the 'feet and both arms'.
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The complete wax statue (as shown) weighs 106.60 grams. YOU MUST ADD 10% FOR THE (casting) 'BUTTON'. When you are weighing your wax "Piece of Art" always INCLUDE for ALL SPRUES, (these will be removed after casting).
I used a cost calculating schedule just for this essay from "DENTRITICS.COM" to estimate the costs mainly in .925 silver.
The metal casting weight is calculated at 1,104.38 grams (710.21 DWT) the cost in USF's is $90.81 plus the (company of your choice) casting fees.
Silver (.925) alloy is at $28.64 an ounce dated on April 20th, 2024. The gold price fluctuates by the hour, silver is much stable.
In our Canadian (37.53% added) exchange currency, these costs will be $124.89.
In "Euro" currency, the charges are 84.24.
In "GBP" (English) currency, the charges are 73.40.
Once that I have carved & reduced the many wax weights, these costs will be greatly reduced. I will again estimate the final wax & casting weights, but these numbers shown are only a testament to the rigours of calculating these costs.
There are so many variables to contend with, I had to make sure that this essay is accurate as possible.
At a later date, I will attempt to display how the wax-carving is actually processed.
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