I sculpted a 7″ tall model of a Skane style Mjolnir out of polymer clay the other day. There are too many undercuts in it to duplicate using the sand casting technique, so I will be making an RTV silicone mold and casting it in resin. I am planning on finishing it to look like [...]

New Wax models for pendants and possibly pins.   There are two new designs soon to be available at whirling sun. One is the Kolovrat, a Slavic sunwheel symbol. The Other is the Germanic Schwartze Sonne, or “black Sun”. The Kolovrat (lit.: “turning wheel”) was  present in pre-Christian Slavic mythology. It was dedicated to the [...]

The Lost Wax Process Part 4: Casting the Metal   Once the flask has matured in the burnout oven, it is time for the fun to begin: injecting it with glowing hot, molten metal! The centrifugal casting machine has a spring driven arm that holds the hot flask and a crucible that contains the molten [...]

The Lost Wax Process Part 3: investment and burnout   Once wax duplicates are made from the RTV mold, they are ready to be sprued onto the rubber flask base. The rubber base has a raised cone in the center. This will form a funnel in the prepared mold and also creates a reservoir of [...]

The Lost Wax Process Part 2: Duplicating the Master   Once master wax model has been created, it can be “invested” in plaster and burned out to create the void into which metal can be injected. The wax master will be gone forever, replaced by silver or gold or bronze. But what if you wanted [...]

Part 1: Creating the Wax Master Take an inside look at how a piece of jewelry goes from an idea on paper to a piece of wearable art!   In this article we will walk you through the process as a piece of jewelry transforms from an idea on paper to a piece of finished [...]

Since the lost wax process is complicated, potentially hazardous, and requires a lot of expensive tools to start with, I decided to do another tutorial. This one lets you start out with a bare minimum of equipment and still create stunning results. Sand Casting To get started sand casting, you will need the following: Casting [...]

There is a new bracelet in the jewelry section. It  is handmade from six sterling silver replica Viking coins which are painstakingly soldered onto rings and joined together. The coins are high quality reproductions of what actual viking era silver coins looked like. These coins feature a helmeted bust and the name Leif Ericsson. This [...]

We have begun producing our own bezel settings in-house. These are the silver (or gold) tubes used to hold a gemstone (like in the eyes of one of the birthstone Thor’s Hammers). So much work was going into fitting the commercially made bezels that it became time and cost effective to make them from raw [...]

Whirling Sun has launched a Blog (obviously) and will be updating it often to bring you up to speed on our latest goings on. Check this blog for: Tutorials on how stuff gets made by us More information about the products we offer Previews into the development of new products and anything else that sounds [...]