Creative design: Express the creativity through graphic design drafts and revise repeatedly until the final draft is completed.
Prototype making: Sculpt a three-dimensional prototype with oil clay or wood clay according to the design draft. Now, 3D printing and other equipment can also be used to make the prototype more vivid and three-dimensional.
Making silicone mold: Evenly apply silicone on the surface of the prototype mold. After the silicone solidifies into a silicone mold, plaster is still needed for fixation.
Pouring wax mold: Prepare wax slurry and pour hot-melted wax into the silicone negative mold. Wait for it to cool naturally.
Removing wax mold: Remove the cooled wax mold from the silicone plaster mold.
Trimming wax mold: Cooling quickly can easily cause the wax mold to shrink and deform. Use tools to carefully trim the mold line marks left when removing the mold, as well as the surface burrs and pores of the wax mold.
Making plaster mold: Prepare refractory plaster in the correct proportion and pour and embed it outside the trimmed wax mold to form a plaster negative mold containing wax.
Steam dewaxing: Put the entire wax-containing plaster mold into a dewaxing machine and heat it with steam. After dewaxing, it becomes a refractory plaster negative mold.
Selecting raw materials: In order to accurately control the proportion of various colors and the beauty of flow, specific colors and sizes of glass raw materials need to be selected according to the shape and design, and the distribution positions of color blocks are arranged in the plaster mold.
Entering the furnace for sintering: After cleaning the mold and removing dust, put the entire plaster mold and the configured raw materials into the furnace and slowly heat them. Make the hot-melted and softened crystal glass slowly flow into the plaster mold like maltose to form. In this process, a strict heating and cooling curve needs to be set, and the furnace temperature must be controlled within 1000℃ ± 5℃. The firing process lasts for more than 15 days to make the crystal raw materials accurate to every detail. Only in this way can the work be fine, delicate, three-dimensional, real, streamlined and elegant, and clear.
Removing the mold: Remove the plaster mold and take out the cooled rough colored glaze embryo.
Cutting and trimming: Cut and trim the excess glass at the feeding port of the rough colored glaze embryo.
Rough mold and fine mold: Use coarse and fine grinding sands to grind the pouring port of colored glaze flat.
Cold working and fine trimming: Use diamond pens and other tools to carefully carve to make the surface of the work more uniform and delicate.