Wax Casting in Jewelry Resizing & Repair: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hello. On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Joe. I own "The Vug" local jewelry store in Salt Lake City. I'm kind of going to talk about wax working and wax casting. Basically, most jeweler supply carry blank wax pieces that you can basically buy. It's, basically, all you do is hollow the center out to make it to the size that you want and then you can carve away the rest. Basically, I use real basic tools, files. I use my drimmel tool a ton. My flux shaft, with pretty course bits on the ends, that's really going to be aggressive and take away a lot of that wax. I try and do this on a separate, on a separate bench, basically to keep all the wax filings out of my metal filings. Basically, a wax is what a ring starts at. It's before it's cast. What's great about a wax, is it's still only wax, so if you're designing a piece for a customer or for yourself and you decide you don't like the shake, it's too thin, you can toss it or cut it and melt new wax into it. The thing that's great about wax, is it is disposable. After this becomes the casting part of it and that I'll go over in another section."