I ended up giving my wax model to my casting instructor from last term to cast into sterling silver. I picked up the bracelet this week and got right down to business polishing it so I can wear it during the holiday season. Here are pictures just after I sawed off the sprues. My instructor said he made two of them to ensure that the molten silver would flow evenly to the rest of the bracelet and pick up all the details of the wax model.
It took about an hour to polish the bracelet using a combination of emery paper, small polishing brushes, and finally the polishing wheel at George Brown. The bracelet looks and feels great on my wrist - I'm definitely going to show this off during the holiday celebrations!
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