How To Carve A Wax Ring For Casting
Creating a design for your wax piece.
How to carve a wax ring for casting. Once you have made the original wax piece you take itsend it to your local casters to be cast into the metal of your choice. We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel. Wax carving is also a very affordable way to work with gold as you only use the exact amount of metal that you need.
Make sure you pick a wax tube with a central hole in the middle so that when it comes to sizing the ring as you carve this can be done easily using a professional wax ring stick. Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring. Wax is so flexible - you can make one off bespoke pieces or whole collections.
We had two options for manufacturing the ring. The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape. In the process of stirring the mixture a ring of wax will solidify at the edge of the surface where the metal is colder and I have to use a heat gun on the outside to clean it off.
Inspired by a Wax Modelling book Id received here I have a go at carving a high doom ring out of carving wax. Removing the Excess Wax. Creating a wax ring to size.
Making Wax for Carving Casting and Machining. In most rings I will mark the center and edges of all sides in addition to the edges of my design. Next file the wax to the shape you require using a special carving file.
Once finished these will be taken for the lost wax casting process. Cast the Wax First off you will need some wax to carve into the ring. Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides.
