How To Carve Wax Ring
Carve your own rings using the delicate wax carving jewellery-making technique at The Artsy Craftsys workshop.
How to carve wax ring. Now I sprue up the carved purple wax by joining the blue sprue wax with heat then into the investment powder and cast it using a centrifugal caster. Inspired by a Wax Modelling book Id received here I have a go at carving a high doom ring out of carving wax. We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel.
The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side. Group classes start at 80 per person with a minimum of 2 people and a maximum of 4 people. This includes tea coffee light refreshments silver and all tools are provided to make your own ring.
This low melting point makes it very easy to melt the wax to join two pieces. Remember that you can file the wax down quite thin as silver weighs 11 times more than wax. The setting grows out of the ring shank in a fluid blended movement.
In this video I like to share with you the traditional hand-carved wax technique. Removing the Excess Wax. Once I have it cast normally in silver that is mixed in a 97 alloy because it casts easy and is easy to engrave I will then re-sprue and vulcanize for mass production should that be the need.
Suitable for complete beginners this is a great course to get you started with wax carving covering. You can even rub your fingers across it fast creating friction and causing it to get soft. Wax carving is a great way to archive those blended transitions between shapes as the wax can be sculpted and carved.
Because its fairly soft its very easy to carve. 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. Creating a wax ring to size.
