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Hello,

I am new to the 3D printing area and have an accessories company where most pieces are made in either 925 sterling silver or brass with 18k yellow gold plating.

I am looking to have some large jewellery pieces made that I am struggling to have cast with regular jewellers due to the size. I am even struggling with services like Shapeways due to the pieces sizes, some up to 19 cm x 19 cmx 6 cm

I have had to try many different options including having pieces cast in stainless steel at a sculptor foundry, then finding car workshops willing to polish and then having to take to jewellery polishers to get into the small areas, then finding places willing to plate in silver & gold.

I am looking for some contacts who are able to help simplify this process and am very open to suggestions.

I potentially have a lot of work for whoever can facilitate!

The end point is I need quality finished products in silver and gold colours with a shiny surface that will not easily tarnish, preferably fully finished with any required polishing and plating done too.

Please let me know if anyone can help or give some suggestions and I can send through further details. I have attached some images as examples.

Thank you!
Georgia

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Hi Georgia,

Here I am :slight_smile:

I’m Paul from Oktane Concept in France. We are specialised in CAD/CAM services for Jewelry industrie.
We also cast precious metal in our workshop. And can provide you with yellow gold/pink gold/copper/silver/anthic silver/rhodium/ruthenium plating.
Of course molding, 3D modeling, scanning, stone setting, polishing and finishing, packaging…
Everthing jewelers need!

And good new since last week we are able to plate over 3D prints. Here is our first test over though material from Formlabs.

Have a nice day.
Paul

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Hey @georgiawyrill!

Thank you for reaching out through 3D Hubs Talk. Sounds like you have quite some serious casting to do!

I did a search on 3D Hubs to look for a Hub that has a printer large enough to be able to print castable resin pieces up to the dimensions you mentioned and I found KustomJewellery Hub: https://www.3dhubs.com/bangkok/hubs/kustomjewellerycom. They have an EnvisionTEC Ultra machine which might be just the printer that you need.

Feel free to get in contact with them by using the “contact this Hub” button on their profile page.

I hope this was useful to you!

Best,
Robin - 3D Hubs

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Hi Georgia, This is Sumant from Kolkata, India. Kolkata is the hub for all gold/silver jewellery made in India and our craftsmen are amongst the best and our prices are very reasonable. Please send me a mail and I can send you our catalog.

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Hi Robin,

Thank you for your reply.

How will this then work if printed in resin to get to end point with polishing, finishing etc?

Thank you

Georgia

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I think Sean Kilmer may be able to help you with the casting part. He is here on Makertree 3D and is an outstanding 3D modeler. His shop is MakerTree 3D Hub. He is the second guy on the main page of available hubs. He has many years of experience in this field.

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Thank you!

I will contact him now :slight_smile:

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Hi Georgia,

Our hub can do prints up to 250 x 250 x 200mm or even 300 x 300 x 450

We can print in PLA plastic, which some jeweller find burns away OK in investment casting. We are starting to test wax filaments for our machines, designed for use in lost wax processes.

We also have a range of PLA plastics containing high amounts of metal (from Proto-Pasta and ColorFabb) which can be polished up to look like bronze, copper, brass, iron and stainless steel.

Take a look at our hub https://www.3dhubs.com/sydney/hubs/bilby3d and if in inner Sydney, drop in and take a look at our showroom where you can see some of what these machines can do for you.