How To Carve Wax Ring
I will often heat a metal tool over a flame to gently melt a part of it.
How to carve wax ring. Make a wax carved ring. Next file the wax to the shape you require using a special carving file. Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring.
Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides. 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. This includes tea coffee light refreshments silver and all tools are provided to make your own ring.
Using a wax tube cut out the shape of a standard ring. Inspired by a Wax Modelling book Id received here I have a go at carving a high doom ring out of carving wax. The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape.
It would be way harder to do the same by fabricating the ring in. Because its fairly soft its very easy to carve. The setting grows out of the ring shank in a fluid blended movement.
It also incorporates Rhino clips to help you visualize the processWax Car. Remember that you can file the wax down quite thin as silver weighs 11 times more than wax. Suitable for complete beginners this is a great course to get you started with wax carving covering.
Group classes start at 80 per person with a minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 4 people. The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape. We switch to finer hand tools and carve much slower to refine the final shape.