At it’s core, here are the steps involved in lost wax, or investment, casting: Make a pattern: a wax or plastic replica of the part you’d like to create in metal Make a mold: pour plaster ...

At it’s core, here are the steps involved in lost wax, or investment, casting: Make a pattern ... of the metal is important here- for example, silver melts at 1,763 °F but pours around 1850 ...