Studio Vlog # 15 I Handmade Jewelry Business I Lost Wax Casting & Stone Setting 🌿

[@mikemagners1004]

I am a inspiring, jewelry, designer, and I have absolutely been enjoying your videos. Always gets me motivated.

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much I’m so glad!! 🥹💜💜

[@Mamiirouge]

Definitely my favorite jeweler on KZbin!

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much that means a lot!! 🥹💜 I think we have a good variety so far and hopefully more newer jewelers will join in on sharing their journey here on KZbin! 🎉 💜

[@dashapivovarova1460]

Thank you so much for sharing your process! I've been watching your channel for almost 6 months and it's sooooo cool to see you growing as a professional! You're my favorite jeweler on KZbin, and thank you for being yourself! I'm also into plants, so I'd recommend you to consider such low light plants as snake plant (sansevieria) and aglaonema (it has sooo many colorful variations). However, they still need to be placed close to the window.

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much for being here and sticking around with me, it means a lot! 🥹💜🙏🏻 and thank you for the plant recommendations, I’ll have to look into those for some of my next plants 🎉☺️

[@ArtDecoFurniture]

10:00 I JUST WATCHED that episode of White Collar, like three nights ago. What on earth… anyway, really admire the way you handle your small business/art.

[@aymarareddoch993]

You are definitely to inspire me to start my new business ❤️ Love your work and videos

[@MiteraMade]

That’s amazing to hear, thank you! You can do it! 🎉🥹💜

[@maddieulevich7561]

Plant suggestion! Get some grow lights! I have to supplement the natural light in my house. I got the GE Grow LED bulbs for greens and seeds and my plants absolutely LOVE them. I just put the bulbs into some gooseneck desk lamps and aim them where they need to go. I also have them plugged in to smart outlets so they’re on a timer and I never have to think about turning them on or off. ❤

[@MiteraMade]

PERFECT advice, thank you so much! 🥹💜

[@FelipFreude-consultor]

Music is amazing and yours jobs too. Congratulations! 🎉❤ I'm Brazilian. Tks for all.

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much! 🙏🏻☺️

[@mikemagners1004]

Appreciate you showing your packaging and shipping techniques be cool you’re full video on that

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you! I definitely will, I’m about to update some of my items so when I get those in the mail I’ll make that video! 🙏🏻☺️

[@noshititskrae]

Everyone please thumbs up these videos... I've binged her whole channel now and I need mooooooreeee.

[@MiteraMade]

You’re so sweeeeet thank you! 🙏🏻😭🥹🥹🙏🏻

[@FacelessJewelry]

!! I love your wax in place gem molds. How satisfying!

[@malloriesnider362]

Thank you for the post! I think I’ve watched every video at least 3 times 😅 I don’t have all the materials but I start sculpting wax and you’ve helped me realize it’s an art and doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. I love you work and your detailed videos are so helpful! Hope you have a great day! 🎉❤

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so so much, this is such a sweet message. 🥹💜 have a great day too! 🙏🏻🥰

[@malloriesnider362]

@@MiteraMade you’re welcome! You should be so proud of yourself! I’m 27 and I know I think you said you were 29 and I aspire to be where you are when I turned 29! You’re amazing. I hope you know that!! 🩷🩷🩷

[@MiteraMade]

Thank yoooouuu! 🥹🥹🥹🙏🏻🙏🏻💜💜 I wish you tons of success!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@IronEagleWelding-s6f]

Oh the 10k casting shot.

[@earthsoul9454]

My house has the worst indoor light for plants so I have to use little plant grow lights for substitute natural sunlight :)

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you for the information!! I need to grab some of those!! 🙈💜

[@celinaalarcon6781]

Thanks for sharing your journey of making beautiful jewelry! I work with polymer clay and some times I think is exhausting! But now I see that is nothing in comparison with all the process that you have to go through; you inspire me to keep going! Thank you so much! ❤

[@andreabiesele8719]

Love your work and your content. Thank you so much for showing all the ins and outs. I’m new to jewelry designing and your channel has been an invaluable resource for me.🤗🤩 Oh and I have horrible indoor lighting and have been using full spectrum LED grow Lights or bulbs I got off of amazon for years now. They both really work great especially in winter. Good luck and I can’t wait to see your new collection.

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much I’m happy I can help! 💜🥹 and thank you!! I didn’t even think about changing my light bulbs, thank you! 🎉

[@IronEagleWelding-s6f]

A place in Santa Cruz wanted me to work for them, and I was kind of stoked because I think I would have loved living where I would have lived. But when I went there to talk to them I seen the kind of jewelry they wanted me to make, and support I couldn’t do it. But I did teach them how to use there laser so them, and if they found a jeweler knew how to use it.

[@Jessiesingssongs]

I find your videos so incredibly educational! Since 2016 I have been a self-taught silver / goldsmid and actually recently I have been immersing myself into the wax casting method. So, I'm very happy with your videos. I just have one question. Once you have made a plaster mold around your wax, you put it in an oven. Does the wax melt and that way you are left with a plaster mold? Where does the wax melt into, does it stay into the plaster mold? Love from the Netherlands!

[@masterjason153]

Should melt out of the bottom and then burn away if you use a kiln

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much, I’m so happy I could help! 🥹 as for the wax, it just melts out and dissipates into the air, like the wax in a candle 💜☺️

[@cariiinen]

Lovely

[@dhaane2021]

I just discovered your channel and im so excited. I also do designing and would love to start my own designing jewellery.

[@pearly75]

Do you have to send your wax pieces with the sprues already attached or will the casting house do that for me? I can’t afford my own equipment yet so for now I have to send them out, it’s all possible largely due in part to watching your videos!!!💗💗

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you for saying that!! You put in the time and effort though, I’m just happy to help!!!🥹🙏🏻💜 My casting company would attach the sprus for me but I would call and ask them if they charge you a fee to do so (they likely will for the time, my fee was about $3🫠). But I chose to let them do it because at the time I didn’t know the correct placement of sprues or the science behind it so I didn’t want to alter the outcome of their results lol 🙈

[@lucasolivera3959]

gran video! desde argentina, sigue con esto !

[@dittetrankjrkristensen9979]

Absolutely love your videos! How do you make the silicone molds?

[@euni1953]

Hi. I'm a subscriber from Korea who recently subscribed to your KZbin channel. I'm always inspired for your journey. I have a question. I wonder if you made all the different size of rings you ordered before setting up the mold machine. I wonder how you carried out the ring shapes that are slightly different..!

[@Acyuta-Priya]

Love this vlog format! When you're casting rings, how do you account for shrinkage? Do you make it slightly bigger in the wax or stretch it after casting?

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you!! It’s a ton of work but I really enjoy it so I’m glad you do as well! 🥹💜 thankfully I haven’t experienced shrinkage with my castings so I don’t do anything special, I’m sorry. 😭

[@lvg0001]

Love this! Your basement workstation setups are so cute and tidy. I am curious, how thin of a wall are you able to cast with sterling and with gold?

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you!! 🥹 do you mean what’s the thinnest I can cast? If I understand the question correctly I would say about .5-.88mm which is usually the bezel wall area, I don’t make it any thinner than that or it may not fully form 💜

[@lvg0001]

@@MiteraMade You're welcome! 🤗 Yes this answered my question. I've gotten different answers from various casters (typically they'd tell me like about 1mm, probably to be safe or something). Wow you must be very meticulous with your castings, thank you for your feedback.

[@VisionItTv]

great tutorial. Quick question: Can resin withstand the heat of metals in liquid form?

[@markdbenson75]

I recently discovered your (beautifully produced) channel as I have an interest in starting this as a hobby. I am astounded at the sheer amount of effort that you put in to producing and packaging these pieces. May I ask one possibly silly question (from someone who knows nothing about this) - the wax moulding process is lengthy and requires specialised kit - is there no alternative to that process which would produce the ‘molten/rivulet’ effect? I’m guessing that the obvious answer is no, otherwise you’d be doing it 😊

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much Mark! 🙏🏻🥹 and that’s not a silly question at all! I suppose someone could sand and carve and use gravers to create the same look but I can only imagine the time and hand pain that that would cause 🙈😂

[@markdbenson75]

@@MiteraMade Hi, thanks for replying, much appreciated. I think I'll have a go with making simple design mock-ups in air-dry clay and if I have some success I'll proceed to silver (and maybe give the graver option a go!). Thanks again!

[@morenovanbuynder4947]

Hey, again lovely video, i was wondering how you can offer different ring sizes from one ring model, do you make a mold for every size ?

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so so much! 🙏🏻☺️ I try to make a mould of a ring that’s the most common size so around the six or seven, but if I’m not able to, it’s no problem because rings are really easy to resize and wax. 😊 I only make a mould of one ring and then anytime I get an order, I just resize it while it’s in wax 💜☺️

[@morenovanbuynder4947]

@@MiteraMade Oh okay thets really helpfull, thankyou 🤗

[@SUPERFINESOLID]

you have really good music selection, how do you find your music?

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much! I use Epidemic Sound ☺️💜

[@Rdn55]

also what type of camera are you using to record this video? Also are you using lighting lamp throughout the video? the quality looks good.

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you so much that’s a great compliment as I’m always worried about lighting 🙈 I work in my basement so I feel like it’s lacking but maybe not? I use a Canon 80D and l just use window light and my normal room lights, no studio lights. 💜

[@masterjason153]

Does hitting the ring on the sizer mandrel not make lines on the inside of the ring?

[@Rdn55]

love your video's. how do you create the mold of your jewelry? Does this come from another company? I dont mean the ping wax molds, but the clear jell type substance that you were opening up in the beginning of the video.

[@MiteraMade]

Thank you!! 🥹 I make the silicone molds myself using some materials I got from Rio grande. I have a video a few back where I share how I do it and link the materials. 💜

[@jenniferellwood7441]

Where do you get your gemstones from????

[@Celeste0415]

❤

[@DuncanL7979]

How do you get the wax to 'form-fit' the pavilion of the stone you're working with?

[@MiteraMade]

I melt the wax over the stone almost completely sometimes which gives it a perfect setting, then I use all of my carving tools and wax pen to clean and shape it up. 💜

[@IronEagleWelding-s6f]

How much do you add just in case, and for ur spew ? lol. Do you have huge buttons ? lol. I don’t blame you one bit especially with all hand carved waxes. Ur brave.

[@PatriziaChinzari]

Dear Adriana I follow your videos with great interest, I am also a jewelry creator here in Italy in Rome, I would like to start using the lost wax technique and it would be of great help if I made a video about the material, instrumentation that you need to buy, of course when you have time.....refer to the casting part of the wax object, the tool marks tanks❤

[@MiteraMade]

Hello from Rome 🎉☺️ I have a list of tools I use for wax carving up on my channel although I really should update it as a lot has changed, I will do that! 💜

[@PatriziaChinzari]

@@MiteraMade ok then I better check on your channel!!!...thanks for your availability🌻🌻🌻😊

[@DeepNorthAdventures]

I do gem stone faceting (as a hobby) for now anyway, and I have been doing a bit of silver smiting for about a year now and I'm just getting into lost wax method but I just don't understand how these pieces can be salt with the gems in them without it causing the gems to Crack, break, or explode? Do you ever have this happen?

[@MiteraMade]

Some stones can withstand the heat of casting, diamonds, sapphires, many lab stones, etc., I have had a stone crack on my TWICE, once I forgot it was in my flask and I quenched it which thermal shocked it (my fault) and the other was a fluke accident? I don’t know what happened lol. But alllll the other times I’ve done it it’s been great. I just stick to sapphires, Moissanite or lab gems that specifically say they can be cast in place. 🙏🏻

[@IronEagleWelding-s6f]

I would say that casting shot was around $2200 ???

[@dhaane2021]

At the moment i just do designing and post them on youtube but nobody sees it... im from london... how about you?

[@polosandoval]

Binging on White Collar? 😂

[@MiteraMade]

I’m running out of shoes okkkaaayyyy 🙈😂 I’m getting so desperate I even started watching selling London 🫠🤣

[@IronEagleWelding-s6f]

Sorry as I watch I see stuff. I’ll stop. I get to buisy, and onto to buisy. lol. But that sticky wax in the melting little pots works great for spewing shit up fast. But it does spiderweb everywhere if ur not careful. U get use to it. Ok my bacons burning

[@dhaane2021]

Hi,

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[@IronEagleWelding-s6f]

A place in Santa Cruz wanted me to work for them, and I was kind of stoked because I think I would have loved living where I would have lived. But when I went there to talk to them I seen the kind of jewelry they wanted me to make, and support I couldn’t do it. But I did teach them how to use there laser so them, and if they found a jeweler knew how to use it.