See Philippe! It's just a step by step process. My number one rule when carving waxes....(or doing almost any complicated task)....is: Start with what you know! With rings for example....it is the finger size....and I start with a block of wax that is VERY "squared up"...this is necessary because most of the layout work (using machinist's squares, dividers and protractors, etc. ) depends on true and flat surfaces. I preserve the original true surfaces for as long as I can....for I've learned you might need them later for a subsesquent measurement. The other rule is to not hurry.....this wax took me 13 hours. (but I goof off a lot...) See....I'm no magician.....just a slow worker! All the 'carving' on this pattern was done with hand-held files....huge and coarse (16" machinist's bastard, medium cut).....to very small and fine. (watchmaker's escapement files...very fine cut #6) total of 7 different files. Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
getting really excited for my wax class.
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A selection of wax flowers from my inventory. The wax models can be used directly to build more complex wax designs to cast into jewelry. Or they can be cast and then used by soldering them onto a piece to fabricate jewelry.
Handcrafted from Jewelry modeling wax. Princess Royale Ring MSD
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Hand carved wax - Cluster ring
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You’d think that after our month away in April we would be done with traveling for a bit, but we actually just got back from a brief, but needed trip to the east coast over memorial day weekend. It was so wonderful to see friends and family that we have missed so dearly. But you know me, I just could not wait to get ba
