the Begins of Lost Wax Casting

Using hand tools and flexible carving wax, I'm going to produce a one of kind belt buckle.

Using a scrip and pre drawn template the shapes will be stippled onto the wax.

Once the pattern has been transferred on to the wax, special carving tools are used to start shaping the forms.

Once most of the carving has been accomplished the large shape is sawed out using spiral saw blade held in a jewelers saw.

The functioning parts of the belt buckle were added to the back using an alcohol torch, and variety of wax shaping tools.

Regular hand files were used to clean up the applied parts,and to add a little more interest to the back a light texture was melted in.

In order to remove fine scratches, a wax solvent is applied lightly to these rough areas. This process gives your wax the smooth finish it needs before being placed in a model.