How To Carve Wax For Casting Jewelry
To do this the wax model is sprued to a wax tree put into a special container and then filled with investment plaster.
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Once youve completed the casting process youll need dependable tools to carve out and define your jewelry. We switch to finer hand tools and carve much slower to refine the final shape. I check it under a dark area of the table before quenching.
The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape. I start this tutorial off with wax carving an Egret. Release the vacuum by flipping the toggle off of cast and move the flask away to let it cool.
Grind the end of a drill bit flat. Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides. An actual living being carves the wax with hand tools based on a drawing.
This video shows you the process of how I make jewelry using tiny details from nature and a variation of the lost wax technique to turn those natural pieces. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape.
