How To Carve Wax Jewelry

Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring.
How to carve wax jewelry. Removing the Excess Wax. This is an introduction to the wax carving technique used at Hunt Country Jewelers and a precursor to carving our aquamarine ring. The process involves carving a piece of wax into the shape you want.
Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides. Texturing the surface of your wax ring. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone.
Texturing wax on a flat pendant surface. Creating faceted edges in wax. Wax carving is an ancient tradition in jewellery making going back 6000 years.
I will often heat a metal tool over a flame to gently melt a part of it. 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. We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel.
Carving out a designed shape in your wax. 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. The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape.
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. The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side. Starting with a lump of jewellers wax.