How To Carve Wax For Casting

Starting with a lump of jewellers wax.
How to carve wax for casting. Run your wax design through a cool flame. Once I have the rough casting I use a flex shaft and a tumbler to turn my rough casting into a beautiful shining sterling silver pendant. Then outline the pattern on the ring with a scribe to provide a guidance on where the first cuts are going to be.
If doing centrifugal casting it can go over the top of the flask. Creating faceted edges in wax. I now have a rough sterling silver casting of my wax model.
If the file is moved on the wax incorrectly the file teeth will leave deep grooves in the wax. Once dry the investment plaster containing the wax model is put in a kiln and the waxes are burnt out leaving the space in the plaster where the model used to be. This tutorial instructs how to carve a wax model ring used for casting into sterling silver or gold.
The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape. I think take Sterling Silver and applying the. Use a large burr in a handpiece to grind the wax to the final shape.
Texturing the surface of your wax ring. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. To do this the wax model is sprued to a wax tree put into a special container and then filled with investment plaster.
If its a one-off piece it may undergo further processes if its for production it will then have a mould made. Wax is so flexible - you can make one off bespoke pieces or whole collections. Follow our lost wax casting process steps below to find out how using a silver ring as an example.