How To Carve Wax Jewelry
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.
How to carve wax jewelry. Over the course of the workshop you will make several wax samples and a series of finished wax pieces of your choice. 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.
Creating a tapered band. This wax carving jewelry tutorial shows the basics of wax carving techniques and how to carve waxes for your jewelry designs using the lost wax method. I start this tutorial off with wax carving an Egret.
This five-day wax carving for jewellery course will cover all the basic techniques required to produce beautifully hand-carved pieces of jewellery in wax. The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side. 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.
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. At this stage we are not actually carving the rings shape rather we are roughly shaping the ring. Creating faceted edges in wax.
You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. Texturing wax on a flat pendant surface. Removing the Excess Wax.
Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring. It also incorporates Rhino clips to help you visualize the processWax Car. We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel.