How To Carve A Wax Ring For Casting
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.
How to carve a wax ring for casting. Creating a design for your wax piece. Using a file and scalpel to remove wax. In the afternoon you will learn how to melt sterling silver and then cast into either cuttlefish or sand or both.
To give myself an idea of where to carve I use dividers to mark the 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. Now that the lines are drawn we remove all the excess wax from around the ring.
In the process of stirring the mixture a ring of wax will solidify at the edge of the surface where the metal is colder and I have to use a heat gun on the outside to clean it off. Using a wax tube cut out the shape of a standard ring. Watch the process of carving a custom band ring out of wax and then casting it in sterling silver.
We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel. Grab a bunch of crayons remove all the paper wrappers and place them into some sort of. Wax carving is also a very affordable way to work with gold as you only use the exact amount of metal that you need.
Suitable for complete beginners this is a great course to get you started with wax carving covering. Make a wax pattern for both the size 10 shank and the top of the ring size the shank cast the pieces separately and solder them together. We had two options for manufacturing the ring.
Sanding and refining your piece. Cast the Wax First off you will need some wax to carve into the ring. We switch to finer hand tools and carve much slower to refine the final shape.