Wax Carving


With wax carving, jewelry makers can create exquisite shapes and details in casting models. Our articles cover the tools and techniques you’ll need.

Turning Wax on a Flex Shaft

Turning Wax on a Flex Shaft

Master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain shows how to turn wax, like on a lathe, but with a flex shaft instead. Filmed...
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How to Make Wax Engraving Tools

How to Make Wax Engraving Tools

Learn how to make your own wax carving tools from everyday steel construction nails. When jewelers carve wax many of...
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Cut Loose – Wax Carving Basics Part 1

Cut Loose – Wax Carving Basics Part 1

If you are accustomed to working in this additive fashion, the subtractive process of carving wax may be daunting to...
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How to Modify Tools for Carving Wax

How to Modify Tools for Carving Wax

Casting is the most important method of commercial jewelry production. Even for small workshops, lost-wax casting is often the fastest...
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Wax Tools Update

Wax Tools Update

Euro Tool, Inc. has developed five wax tool kits and a cordless wax pen for the overall improvement of wax...
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5 Classic Casting Tips

5 Classic Casting Tips

These slow, quiet days of summer are always a good time to review your shop practices before the busy holiday...
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Wax Model Carving

Wax Model Carving

Recently a customer requested that we make her an unusual mother's ring. She chose a magnificent 3.56 ct. oval blue...
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Make Your Own Wax Tools

Make Your Own Wax Tools

I make all my own wax carving tools and hot wax tools.I have done this since the early 1970's when...
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Channel Setting Tools Designed For Wax

Channel Setting Tools Designed For Wax

Stone-in-place casting is growing in practice with manufacturers and retail manufacturing operations taking advantage of these labor saving techniques. Stone-in-place...
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Making Hollow Forms in Carving Wax Using Bread

Making Hollow Forms in Carving Wax Using Bread

White, gummy Wonder Bread isn't just for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It's a fun tool for making hollow forms...
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Optimized Saw Blade for Cutting Wax

Optimized Saw Blade for Cutting Wax

While many jewelers work directly in precious metals, many also work with wax, carving models for casting in silver and...
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Wax Turning Technique

Wax Turning Technique

This paper will describe how to turn a block of wax into a pottery of approximately 1 1/4 inches in...
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Manufacturing a Free-Form Pendant

Manufacturing a Free-Form Pendant

This article features the manufacturing steps for a one-of-a-kind free-form pendant designed and created by Barney Jette. The center stone...
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Custom Designed Wax Carving

Custom Designed Wax Carving

This article features the wax carving steps for this custom made pendant designed and created by Bill Holman. The center...
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Foredom Milling Assembly for Wax Components

Foredom Milling Assembly for Wax Components

Bill Holman uses modern technology to create his designed line of jewelry featuring Drusy gemstones. Wanting his jewelry designs to...
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Design and Creation of Elesa

Design and Creation of Elesa

While at the Atlanta Bench Jewelers Conference, my friend Elesa Dillon (the national sales manager for Southern Jewelry News and...
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Spiral Cut Technique for Rubber Molds

Spiral Cut Technique for Rubber Molds

n this installment we present a mold cutting technique called a spiral cut, which is designed to facilitate the successful...
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Locating Dead Center on Ring Blanks

Locating Dead Center on Ring Blanks

This article provides a helpful tip on locating dead center on ring blanks and finding balance on an object. Free-form...
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Slicing Wax Slabs

A drill press (either a full size, miniature, or Foredom) with an end mill or cylinder bur can thin down...
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Jewelry Designs: Maya Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Maya Pendant

Welcometo Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece ofjewelry...
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Jewelry Designs: Raindrops Pendant

Jewelry Designs: Raindrops Pendant

Welcome to Stacey Rhodes Jewelry Designs, where we will detail all of the steps involved in adding a new piece...
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