[Jewelry making - Article 00868] - Re: [Orchid] Favorite exercise

[Chuck Hunner]

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    My first wax carving teacher, Spencer Moss in Albuquerque, had me
    carve a square, a rectangle, a sphere, a tetrahedron, a pyramid, and
    a dipyramid... all about 1/2  to 3/4 inch across. I carved in green,
    blue, and purple hard carving wax. Not really a favorite exercise but
    how I got started sculpting miniature waxes. 

    There was another wax, Karvex, that was incredible. It was somehow
    more brittle and stronger than the regular green wax. Really held an
    edge well. You could carve, and sand, and sculpt on a really detailed
    piece all day and the edges you'd cut in the morning were never
    rounded off by your handling. The company disappeared in the late
    70's. Maybe was absorbed by a larger mfg. Anybody know the formula
    for that wax? It would be worth cooking up in the studio. 

    The Pythagorean solids were small but got me into symmetry and
    precision in that small scale world. The idea was to get parallel
    sides parallel, angles equal, corners square. It showed me how
    quickly coarse to fine files work on small bits of wax. That was the
    beginning. 

    Then we started carving bird fetishes with inlay channels in them.
    That got me into carving whatever people asked of me.

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