a wax or plastic replica of the part you’d like to create in metal Make a mold: pour plaster around the pattern, then burn out the wax to leave a hollow cavity Pour the metal: melt some metal ...

It was the first attempts at making media for this wax 3D printer that [Andreas] has been building up. Wanting to produce 3D printed objects out of metal, and finding that direct metal laser ...

and after the wax is melted and drained off, molten metal is poured into the cavity that the "lost wax" has created In jewellery there is no inner core, however, so artists like Cindy Chao carve ...