How To Carve Wax For Casting
Texturing the surface of your wax ring.
How to carve wax for casting. A model is carved or shaped in wax and is then cast. Next file the wax to the shape you require using a special carving file. Once dry the investment plaster containing the wax model is put in a kiln and the waxes are burnt out leaving the space in the plaster where the model used to be.
Transferring your designs accurately on to wax. Wax is so flexible - you can make one off bespoke pieces or whole collections. 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.
The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side. Moulds are traditionally made from vulcanised rubber. Smaller burrs may be used to grind the shape to closer detail.
I will often heat a metal tool over a flame to gently melt a part of it. Making a Batch of WillowProducts 3Sixty Carving Wax. 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.
You can even rub your fingers across it fast creating friction and causing it to get soft. Move the file on the wax in a direction so as to not cut grooves in the wax from the file. Starting with a lump of jewellers wax.
There are a few steps you can take to make sure there are no unwanted rough edges on your wax carving before going through the lost wax casting process. Using a wax tube cut out the shape of a standard ring. I now have a rough sterling silver casting of my wax model.