Wax jewelry molds

Video Transcript

" Hi I’m Courtney Gray we’re here at Hard Court Studios in the East side Austin, Texas. You can find us on the web at courtneygrayarts.com or visit the studio any time. You can contact me through that. I’m going to show you some basic basic ways to carve wax, which is what I specialize in. For the most part. I call it creative wax carving. To start you would basically need different, whatever style of wax you choose and I’ll run you through that today. You can buy, this is a very flexible model of sheet wax. Comes in sheets, pink sheets like this, it’s extremely flexible as you can see here. It’s very bendable. This is a great thing to start with, it’s not really very carveable but you can form and shape it to make all sorts of different designs and fun things. What you would use to cut it is your basic exacto knife which you could find at your local Hobby store. The wax you could probably find online. There are many suppliers, international suppliers that carry these different types of wax. Rio Grande is a huge one, they should have everything you need to get started. Another type of wax that you can buy, and this is actually a piece that I’ve made myself with smaller chunks that you can buy. They come in squares, round stock, there’s all different types. This is a purple wax, it’s a little more flexible than the green wax but not nearly as flexible as what I showed you earlier, the pink sheet wax. This is actually carveable, you can polish it, and you can smooth it out with an exacto knife. A big tool that we use is different types of dental tools to shape and carve and smooth the surfaces of the wax. Another type of wax that I prefer is the green wax. That comes as you see here, you can buy it in huge chunks. If you’re doing small sculptural type things you can use it for that. Cut out the sizes you need if you’re doing a small pendant, earrings, anything like that. You can chop out anything you need and use it for that. You want to start with a nice smooth surface, that’s a little coarse right now. You would take a wax file and smooth that down before you do any lay out. Another type of wax is the blue wax, this is a good beginner wax. Blue wax is pretty forgiving it’s not quite as, it doesn’t polish out quite as nice as the green I would say, but it is pretty solid and fun to work with and pretty fun for beginners. That would be what you would use if you were to be making a pendant or a pair of earrings. Rings would be a different story. "