How To Carve Wax Jewelry
I start this tutorial off with wax carving an Egret.
How to carve wax jewelry. At this stage we are not actually carving the rings shape rather we are roughly shaping the ring. 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. Creating a wax carved chunky ring from scratch.
Carving out a designed shape in your wax. In this video I like to share with you the traditional hand-carved wax technique. Wax Carving Jewelry Tutorial.
Texturing wax on a flat pendant surface. You can then take the. Creating a tapered band.
For more information plea. It also incorporates Rhino clips to help you visualize the processWax Car. The wax begins to take on a more ring-like shape.
Transferring your designs accurately on to wax. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone. Wax carving is an ancient tradition in jewellery making going back 6000 years.
This is an introduction to the wax carving technique used at Hunt Country Jewelers and a precursor to carving our aquamarine ring. We use a saw to cut off the larger pieces and cut smaller segments off using a scalpel. The wax tube can be cut down using a wax cutting saw blade and the excess can be kept and reused.