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Casting EquipmentCasting equipment includes sand, charcoal, cuttlefish bone, kilns, and centrifugal machines. Casting enables the jeweler to make molds for jewelry designs that can be supported with sheet metal or wire.Duplication EquipmentDuplication equipment is ideal for jewelers who want to create more than one of the same designs. In order to duplicate jewelry, the designer must first make a mold. To make the mold, metal model and rubber materials is put into a metal frame, then heated in a vulcanizer. The finished material is a solid rubber block. The metal model is removed from the rubber block, leaving an impression that is ready to accept warm wax.To make identical models of the original model, the jeweler makes wax models by using a wax injector to inject liquid wax into the rubber mold. The hardened wax model can then be used for additional models. KilnKilns are ovens that reach high temperatures. In jewelry design, they are used for enameling, casting, glasswork, and ceramics.Bench PressA bench press is a piece of equipment that can be used to flatten metal, to put patterns into metal, and to push and stretch metal into three-dimensional shapes.Lapidary EquipmentLapidary equipment enables jewelers to cut and grind their own gemstones. This piece of equipment is for specialists, and is not needed to cut, grind, and polish cabochon stones.
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