So I have the opportunity to try my hand at creating some jewelry. The process involves carving wax, casting a mold and creating a piece in either silver or gold. I am at the carving process right now. I began with a brick of green Jelenko wax. This wax is brittle and dense, it should be molded with instruments that have been heated with a Bunsen burner but I don't have one at the moment so I just used sharper instruments (an Xacto knife and a wax carving tool) and tried to be careful. Since I have no experience with craving I started with the simple form of a spike/nail. Basically it ended up being a slow process of widdling the wax until it took the form I wanted.
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