How To Carve Wax For Casting
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How to carve wax for casting. Waxes and the fumes generated upon heating are highly flammable. Use a large burr in a handpiece to grind the wax to the final shape. You can even rub your fingers across it fast creating friction and causing it to get soft.
Using a wax tube cut out the shape of a standard ring. Once dry the investment plaster containing the wax model is put in a kiln and the waxes are burnt out leaving the space in the plaster where the model used to be. Move the file on the wax in a direction so as to not cut grooves in the wax from the file.
Carving out a designed shape in your wax. Use 1000 grit wet sandpaper to smooth the wax. You saw and file it down into the shape you require like a sculptor working with stone.
Now we can switch to hand tools to carve into it from all sides. The top of the ring is trimmed down into a rough hexagon shape. After allowing a little time for the metal to cool and harden I take the flask and put it in a bucket of water to dissolve the plaster.
The band is still quite wide so well use a bur to remove a few millimeters on either side. If the file is moved on the wax incorrectly the file teeth will leave deep grooves in the wax. If you choose to experiment on your own do not melt wax with gas burners and work in a location where you can deal with a fire in the melting pot without freaking out and spilling flammable liquid on the floor.
Once you have made the original wax piece you take itsend it to your local casters to be cast into the metal of your choice. The Means To Carve Wax For Casting. Making a Batch of WillowProducts 3Sixty Carving Wax.
