How To Carve Wax Jewelry
This low melting point makes it very easy to melt the wax to join two pieces.
How to carve wax jewelry. The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape. I want to carve a cameo of about 30mm by 30mm for use in future picture pendants. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone.
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. 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. It also incorporates Rhino clips to help you visualize the processWax Car.
Starting with a lump of jewellers wax. 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. With wax carving you essentially carve your designs in wax and then have them cast into metals such as brass silver gold or platinum that can then be sanded polished and finished in the traditional way.
Wax carving is an ancient tradition in jewellery making going back 6000 years. In this video I like to share with you the traditional hand-carved wax technique. We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel.
Creating a tapered band. Texturing wax on a flat pendant surface. The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape.
Creating faceted edges in wax. This is an introduction to the wax carving technique used at Hunt Country Jewelers and a precursor to carving our aquamarine ring. You can then take the.