Hand Sling Casting: lost wax casting at home (alt. centrifugal casting method by hand)

This is a video on the rarely used hand-sling casting method for casting jewelry. My fiance and I are casting our wedding bands together by hand here. This is a cheap and somewhat effective way to cast your own jewelry at home for under 50$. Please be careful when you are melting your own metals at home and be cautious of where molten metal will go while you are swinging if you use too much.

Material list: Jewelry carving wax:5-10$
Jewelry investment (plaster): 15$ (for 2kg)
Metal flask for mold and holder (cylinders) :5$ each
2 1/2in. dia. and 4in. dia
6-10 ga. wire from any hardware store: 10$

Skip to 04:49 for casting and 05:32 for Haley's casting at dusk

[charliebecker]

I have an antique casting sling from my grandparents (both dentists). Curious about how to use it, I did a search, and this is the ONLY video on YouTube about it that I have found. Impressive work!

[pdfico]

I spent a months salary on my wife’s wedding ring. Mirthless chuckle. Oh that’s nice, I forged my wife’s wedding ring out of metal and fire with my own two hands. Jaw dropping Amazement.

[loadandmakeready]

My wife and I do a lot of casting now, using a centrifugal casting machine. Watching your video more than a year ago gave me the confidence to do our first wax burnout in our home fireplace and we successfully cast using the fireplace for months. Now we use better equipment, but this video is really impressive. Well done.

[bradsawyer]

Thank you brother this was so awesome and really cool to male each other a wedding band 🙏🍀💚

[fleanine]

I'm going to try this out for sure. Also liking the idea of one large sprue rather than many small ones. Thanks for posting. Also - congrats! cheers to you!!! It's very cool that your woman got to sling her own molten metal into the mold for the ring. It's so much more meaningful and significant that way. Nice work...thanks for sharing.

[Jsellers]

Interesting. Never seen that before. Great video and the rings turned out nice.

[grillzbytroy]

Well I know how im doing my first wax molding of gold lol thanks great information for aspiring jeweler on a budget

[lapidarydave]

hey brother do you know where i can buy a sling casting rig
great video btw

[Yash_]

How much time you kept the mold in firepit