How To Carve Wax Ring
Using a wax tube cut out the shape of a standard ring.
How to carve wax ring. This includes tea coffee light refreshments silver and all tools are provided to make your own ring. We switch to finer hand tools and carve much slower to refine the final shape. Group classes start at 80 per person with a minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 4 people.
At the beginner-friendly workshop youll be abl. At this stage we are not actually carving the rings shape rather we are roughly shaping the ring. This low melting point makes it very easy to melt the wax to join two pieces.
Once I have it cast normally in silver that is mixed in a 97 alloy because it casts easy and is easy to engrave I will then re-sprue and vulcanize for mass production should that be the need. The kit consisted of a ring sizer pencil craft knife two types of sandpaper and two blue wax ring blanks. The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape.
Because its fairly soft its very easy to carve. Next file the wax to the shape you require using a special carving file. Instructions are provided online via video and they give you some guidance on what techniques work best but essentially youre left to your own devices to design something.
It would be way harder to do the same by fabricating the ring in. 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.
We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel. Remember that you can file the wax down quite thin as silver weighs 11 times more than wax. Carve your own rings using the delicate wax carving jewellery-making technique at The Artsy Craftsys workshop.
