How To Use Wax Carving Tools
With a motorised tool you can pick up specific burrs that will speed up your wax carving process significantly.
How to use wax carving tools. Its easy to sharpen whittling knives and woodcarving tools with the FlexCut SlipStrop. If held at 90 degrees to the wax surface it cuts only sideways. Etch into wax candles to add texture and design.
Ormore common using a variable speed rotary tool like a Dremel or Foredom. Creating a design for your wax piece. The wax or the tool may be rotated as the tool is pushed forward when inscribing a curved line.
This tool can easily be transformed into a wax carving tool simply by adding a specific wax carving burr. Insert in the Collets - Part 1. When working with this wax I will usually use different types of rotary burrs and work it to the shape I want.
This wax is intended for work with power tools. 5 is just a pin for heating to build up wax. Make a wax carved ring.
Creating a wax ring to size. Insert in the collets - Part 2 - the alternative method. 10 is a scalpel.
These are the ten top wax carving tools that I like to use. Hold it vertically and it will not cut deeper only sideways. In this video I show you how to sharpen 4 different tools with the Sl.