How To Carve Wax Jewelry

Creating faceted edges in wax.
How to carve wax jewelry. This is an introduction to the wax carving technique used at Hunt Country Jewelers and a precursor to carving our aquamarine ring. This low melting point makes it very easy to melt the wax to join two pieces. The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape.
Texturing the surface of your wax ring. Over the course of the workshop you will make several wax samples and a series of finished wax pieces of your choice. Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides.
At this stage we are not actually carving the rings shape rather we are roughly shaping the ring. 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. Wax Carving Jewelry Tutorial.
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. For more information plea. I want to carve a cameo of about 30mm by 30mm for use in future picture pendants.
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. You can even rub your fingers across it fast creating friction and causing it to get soft.
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. Starting with a lump of jewellers wax. You can then take the.