18ct Gold Casting

18ct Gold Casting for Jewellers & Jewellery Designers

18ct Gold Casting at JewelCast

At JewelCast, we’re passionate about producing exceptional 18ct gold castings for jewellers, designers, retailers, and manufacturers throughout the UK and around the world. With decades of hands-on experience, we combine traditional craftsmanship with the latest casting technology to help bring your jewellery designs to life.

Based in the heart of Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter, we create precision castings in yellow gold, white gold, and rose gold using CAD design, 3D printing, and advanced lost wax casting techniques. Every piece is carefully crafted to deliver outstanding detail, consistency, and a high-quality finish you can rely on.

Whether you’re creating a one-off bespoke piece, developing a prototype, or planning a full production run, our experienced team is here to support you at every stage. We take pride in delivering castings with the accuracy, quality, and attention to detail your designs deserve.

What Is 18ct Gold Casting?

Every beautiful piece of jewellery begins with care, craftsmanship, and quality materials.

18ct gold casting is the process of transforming a carefully crafted wax or resin model into a finished piece by pouring molten 18ct gold into a precision-made mould. It’s a trusted manufacturing technique that allows intricate designs to be reproduced with exceptional accuracy, while delivering the timeless beauty and lasting durability that 18ct gold is known for.

Made from 75% pure gold blended with carefully selected alloy metals, 18ct gold offers the perfect balance of luxury, strength, and everyday wearability—making it a favourite choice for fine jewellery.

 

jewellery designed, 3d printed and cast by jewelcast using precision jewellery manufacturing techniques
gold octopus designed, 3d printed and precision cast by jewelcast

Why Choose 18ct Gold?

At the heart of every cast is our commitment to craftsmanship, precision, and supporting jewellers in bringing their designs to life. Whether you’re creating a one-of-a-kind piece or a full collection, our expert 18ct gold casting service is here to help you achieve exceptional results.

Benefits of 18ct Gold Jewellery Casting

  • Rich, luxurious gold colour
  • Higher gold content than 9ct gold
  • Strong and durable for everyday wear
  • Ideal for intricate, high-quality castings
  • Can be alloyed with other material to create white, yellow, rose, pink, red, green, or brown gold

Expert 18ct Gold Casting

We cast 18ct yellow gold, 18ct white gold daily and 18ct rose gold often.

We use a fully recycled system ensuring  all our 18ct gold is of the highest purity & quality.

Our casting process is ideal for everything from engagement rings and wedding bands to pendants, earrings, luxury jewellery collections, and bespoke commissions.

Using precision lost wax casting, we can produce highly detailed jewellery pieces with excellent consistency and finish quality.

18ct White Gold

18ct Yellow Gold

18ct Red Gold

Get In Touch

Contact us today, we’d love to hear from you. Whether you want to learn more about our services or are looking for casting advice, we’re always happy to help.

Our 18ct Gold Casting Services

We offer a complete end-to-end jewellery manufacturing workflow in-house, maintaining consistent quality control and quicker turnaround times throughout every stage of production.

Jewellery design service using CAD design and 3D scanning to turn your idea into a visual design

Design

We utilise different 3D design programmes depending on which is best for your design.  Certain handmade and scultped designs require programmes made for exactly this style.

High-resolution 3D printed jewellery model in castable resin ready for casting

3D Printing

High-resolution 3D printing solutions for viewing resins, master patterns, and direct casting into precious metal.

Jewellery mould making service including cold, master pattern and vulcanised moulding for repeat production and lost wax casting

Moulding

Our moulding service includes checking the master pattern is suitable, adding a sprue that will work to release the wax and also allow the flow of the metal in the lost wax process. We can work with your master pattern or create one for you.

Lost wax jewellery casting in gold and silver for jewellery designers

Casting

We combine expert craftsmanship with the finest materials to create top-quality precious metal castings. All of our castings are checked by a large team of expert jewellers after casting and any that don’t meet our quality standards are failed.

From independent designers to retail jewellers to established brands

We work with independent jewellery designers, retail jewellers, jewellery brands, manufacturing jewellers, students and emerging designers. Whether you’re developing a new jewellery collection, scaling existing production or producing a bespoke commission, we support projects of all sizes.

jewellery manufactured by JewelCast for UK jewellers
Gold jewellery casting tree before finishing and polishing

Birmingham Jewellery Quarter Casting Specialists

JewelCast has been producing precious metal castings since 2001 from our Birmingham Jewellery Quarter workshop. We combine traditional craftsmanship with modern CAD design and 3D printing technology to deliver consistent, high-quality results.

18ct Gold Casting FAQ

We cast 18ct yellow gold, white gold, and rose gold depending on your project requirements.

Yes. We offer a complete CAD design and 3D printing service and can also work from customer-supplied files where suitable.

Yes. 18ct gold is a popular choice for engagement rings due to its luxurious appearance and durability.

Yes. We offer additional finishing, polishing, and hallmarking services as part of our jewellery manufacturing process.

Absolutely. Our experienced team can advise on design adjustments to improve casting success and finished quality.

Get a Quote for 18ct Gold Casting

If you are looking for reliable, high-quality 18ct gold casting services, contact JewelCast today. Our expert team is always happy to discuss your project, provide advice, and help turn your jewellery designs into finished castings.