Wax Working


Learn to work with wax for jewelry making.

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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Setting Gemstones in Wax

Setting Gemstones in Wax

The one of the most revolutionary advance in recent years, apart from the Laser soldering, is the method of "Setting...
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Identifying and Preventing Wax Defects

Identifying and Preventing Wax Defects

Manufacturer spend much time and money diagnosing defects that are believed to originate in the casting process, but actually occur...
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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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Wax Build-Up Technique

Wax Build-Up Technique

An English excerpts from the book "Lost Wax Jewelry Making: The Build-up Technique" by Minoru Azama, printed in Japanese by...
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Setting Stones in Wax

Setting Stones in Wax

One of the most revolutionary advances in recent years, apart from laser welding, is the method of setting stones in...
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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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Transferring Patterns to Wax

Transferring Patterns to Wax

Starting out with clear layout lines is essential with any wax-carving project. If you're creating a design from scratch, it's...
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Tips for Avoiding Meltdown

Tips for Avoiding Meltdown

Now What? You’ve carved a few waxes or made a piece in metal that you want to mold and have...
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Popular Textural Wax Patterns

Popular Textural Wax Patterns

Aside from the visual pleasure one derives from a textured surface, the biggest benefit is the ease in finishing the...
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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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Testing ACCU Carve Injection Wax

Testing ACCU Carve Injection Wax

AJM recently asked two companies, AU Enterprises in Berkley , Michigan , and Racecar Jewelry Co. Inc. in Cranston ,...
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Eliminating Ash Residue Defects

Eliminating Ash Residue Defects

The casting department at Stuller Inc. in Lafayette, Louisiana, has been experimenting with casting photopolymer models, and it has found...
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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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Wax Build-Up Procedures

Wax Build-Up Procedures

The Foredom Wax Carver (WC-1) is a new wax worker recently made available to the jewelry industry by The Foredom...
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5 Tips for Mass Finishing

5 Tips for Mass Finishing

There are many paths to the perfect finish. When it comes to mass finishing production jewelry there are a few...
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Carving Your Wax Piece with Kate Wolf

Carving Your Wax Piece with Kate Wolf

Creative Side Jewelry Academy of Austin presents Kate Wolf, owner of Wolf Tools, as she uses the Wolf Trimmer to...
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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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Matt Gun – Working with the Blue Wax

Matt Gun – Working with the Blue Wax

Designing jewelry with the Matt wax extrusion gun. The blue wax is specially formulated to cool quickly, allowing the jeweler...
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Matt Mini-Lathe Intro

Matt Mini-Lathe Intro

The Matt Mini-Lathe removes wax on all kinds of circular and cylindrical forms to help you create bands, bezels, settings,...
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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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Testing the Wolf Adjustable Trimmer

Testing the Wolf Adjustable Trimmer

In my 25 years of working as a goldsmith, I have always looked for tools that make my life easier...
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The Matt Gun- Using Green Wax to Model on Water

The Matt Gun- Using Green Wax to Model on Water

Working with the Matt Gun - Using the green wax pellets to design on water creates models with unique and...
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Conversion of Dental Tools Into Wax Engraving Tools

Conversion of Dental Tools Into Wax Engraving Tools

This paper describes the conversion of dental tools into wax engraving tools, how they are held and how they are...
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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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Hollowing Out A Wax Model For Lost Wax Casting

Hollowing Out A Wax Model For Lost Wax Casting

In this demonstration, a wax model is shown, and will be hollowed out from behind. A strong light is mounted...
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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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RTV cylinder mold cutting of Akron rtv-rp

RTV cylinder mold cutting of Akron rtv-rp

Mold cutting Akron RTV-RP clear silicone. Cylinder mold was cured in a round film canister which saves about 1/2 the...
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DIY Mini Lathe

DIY Mini Lathe

DIY Mini Lathe
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Getting Started with the Matt Trimmer Wax Trimming Tool

Getting Started with the Matt Trimmer Wax Trimming Tool

Create the basic structure of a wax ring model with accuracy. With the Matt Trimmer you can precisely file and...
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Weaving Wax Technique with the Matt Gun

Weaving Wax Technique with the Matt Gun

Working with the Matt Gun - The red wax is strong but flexible and resilient. This video demonstrates the weaving...
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123WaxRing movie shows an easy way to create jewelry wax mod

123WaxRing movie shows an easy way to create jewelry wax mod

Jewelers use wax models to cast rings and other jewelry. CNC machining is a great way to create such wax...
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Cutting Grooves & Channels with the Matt Trimmer

Cutting Grooves & Channels with the Matt Trimmer

Matt Trimmer - The milling operation. With a quick adjustment of the table, you can cut grooves, line channels and...
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BBJ 1211 – Carving Wax in Metal Clay

BBJ 1211 – Carving Wax in Metal Clay

A Beads Baubles and Jewels project. Make your own original textures for metal clay by carving on wax tablets and...
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Battle Axe 2 sided milling, part3

Battle Axe 2 sided milling, part3

2 sided milling
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Introduction to working with Matt wax modeling tools

Introduction to working with Matt wax modeling tools

This video is the first in a series that introduces the viewer to working with Matt wax modeling tools including:...
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Laying Out a Pattern In Wax With Kate Wolf

Laying Out a Pattern In Wax With Kate Wolf

Creative Side Jewelry Academy of Austin presents Kate Wolf, owner of Wolf Tools, as she demonstrates how to more quickly...
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Roland DG: The Perfect Wax Model

Roland DG: The Perfect Wax Model

Roland DG Corporation is making high-tech available to jewellery designers and goldsmiths with its JWX-30. They too now have access...
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Matt Trimmer: Creating Basic Ring Shape with Accuracy

Matt Trimmer: Creating Basic Ring Shape with Accuracy

The basic shape of your ring dictates the accuracy of the entire design. Learn how to create that shape with...
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Matt Miter Box-Cut Straight or Parallel Walls

Matt Miter Box-Cut Straight or Parallel Walls

A perfect wax model starts with a perfectly cut wax blank. With the Matt Miter Box (Matter Box) you can...
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Create a Two-Color Casting

Create a Two-Color Casting

Combining the Matt Mini-Lathe and Matt Gun techniques to create a two-color casting.
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Skull Ring CNC project part 1

Skull Ring CNC project part 1

A custom cnc modelmaster mill and Artcam Jewelsmith project
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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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Revising Milled CAD/CAM Models

Revising Milled CAD/CAM Models

I have great respect for the capabilities of CAD/CAM technology, and Ive seen some absolutely amazing pieces generated by it....
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VLT flat cut 7 circuit pendant

VLT flat cut 7 circuit pendant

Flat cut silicone mold using Castaldo VLT rubber.
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Caving wax on metal clay

Caving wax on metal clay

A Beads Baubles and Jewels project. Make your own original textures for metal clay by carving on wax tablets and...
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The Queen of the Night

The Queen of the Night

This video documents the making of a silver necklace inspired by Mozart's "The Magic Flute". The green and purple material...
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The Scorpion

The Scorpion

File produced and animated in Matrix 3D software.
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Skull Ring cnc project part 2

Skull Ring cnc project part 2

Skull Ring custom cnc project, artcam , modelmaster cnc
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Jewelers Tools: Making a Square

Jewelers Tools: Making a Square

An inexpensive method to make a square to lay-out lines on your jewelry or wax carvings is shown in this...
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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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Intro to Working with the Matt Gun

Intro to Working with the Matt Gun

The Matt wax extrusion gun allows the jeweler to create beautiful organic designs. This video covers getting started with the...
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Agate Pendants

Agate Pendants

Design and carving pendant
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Versace Necklace Part 1

Versace Necklace Part 1

Cnc on modelmaster and artcam jewelsmith
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Battle Axe pendent 2 sided milling part2

Battle Axe pendent 2 sided milling part2

a 2 sided milling project
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Battle Axe 2 sided milling ,part1

Battle Axe 2 sided milling ,part1

a two sided milling video
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Versace necklace part 2

Versace necklace part 2

the making of a custom necklace
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Tanzanite Ring part one

Tanzanite Ring part one

Carving wax pattern for Tanzanite
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How to Create a Basic Ring Band

How to Create a Basic Ring Band

Creating a basic ring band with the Matt Mini-Lathe
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How to Trim your Wax Model using Matt Trimmer

How to Trim your Wax Model using Matt Trimmer

Tips on how to trim your jewelry wax model quickly and with precision using the Matt Wax Trimmer.
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Making a fairy part two

Making a fairy part two

Casting and finishing the fairy
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Versace Custom necklace part 3

Versace Custom necklace part 3

the building of a custom 10 k yellow gold necklace, artcam jewelsmith, and modelmaster cnc
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Making a silver fairy

Making a silver fairy

First video of wax work
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