How To Carve Wax For Lost Wax Casting

Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides.
How to carve wax for lost wax casting. To make something with lost wax casting you must first make a wax model. Hard carving waxes carve easily can take on fabulous detail can be repaired invisibly and in seconds with the same wax and a heat controlled tool. Once I am happy with how the ring is modeled I bring them to the casters check out my video of w.
If you choose to experiment on your own do not melt wax with gas burners and work in a location where you can deal with a fire in the melting pot without freaking out and spilling flammable liquid on the floor. 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. 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.
We switch to finer hand tools and carve much slower to refine the final shape. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. Watch the process of carving a custom band ring out of wax and then casting it in sterling silver.
I check it under a dark area of the table before quenching. Carving and shaping wax is very satisfying. Inspired by a Wax Modelling book Id received here I have a go at carving a high doom ring out of carving wax.
Carving waxes can also be. Sculpture down sprues up. In this video I use soft jewelers wax red wax by Ferris.
To do this you will need special wax some simple tools and possibly a heat source such as a candle or alcohol lamp. Keep the area open and free of excess materials and have a. Her current collections use a serendipitous approach to lost wax casting techniques married with the rich colours and beautiful cuts of fine gem stones.