How To Carve Wax Jewelry
What is wax carving.
How to carve wax jewelry. For more information plea. Carving out a designed shape in your wax. The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape.
Starting with a lump of jewellers wax. 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. Creating faceted edges in wax.
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. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring.
Texturing the surface of your wax ring. This low melting point makes it very easy to melt the wax to join two pieces. I will often heat a metal tool over a flame to gently melt a part of it.
Very intricate pieces can easily and quickly be made using this technique and you can use this technique at home with minimal tools. 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. The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side.
This is sent to a professional casters and comes back as silver copy of the shape you carved ready for you to sand and polish. Creating a wax carved chunky ring from scratch. 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.