How To Carve Wax Jewelry
This is sent to a professional casters and comes back as silver copy of the shape you carved ready for you to sand and polish.
How to carve wax jewelry. This is an introduction to the wax carving technique used at Hunt Country Jewelers and a precursor to carving our aquamarine ring. So if you have designs in your head that arent particularly suited to traditional fabrication methods it is worth giving wax carving a try to see what you can achieve. Creating a tapered band.
Carving out a designed shape in your wax. Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring. The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side.
Starting with a lump of jewellers wax. Transferring your designs accurately on to wax. You can even rub your fingers across it fast creating friction and causing it to get soft.
The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. What is wax carving.
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. The wax tube can be cut down using a wax cutting saw blade and the excess can be kept and reused. Wax Carving Jewelry Tutorial.
You can then take the. Your finished wax piece is then sent to a caster to be cast in any metal you want through the process of lost wax casting. 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.
