Settings play a supporting role to let the gemstone be the centre of attention, but that doesn’t mean they have to be purely functional! Wax makes it easy to embellish your settings for that little bit extra. This class is perfect if you want to incorporate stones in 3D shapes. You learn how to carve a seat for faceted stones, make straight walled, tapered, and curved outsides for your setting, and how to design around your stone. Adding a little embellishment adds a lot of personality to your settings! This class doesn’t cover how to set stones, only how to make the settings. A basic knowledge on stone setting is helpful to make the most out of this class.
Techniques covered
- Decide on wax thickness based on your stone
- Draw the outline of the stone on wax
- Cut a seat with ball burrs, or a saw
- Cut a seat for curved and cornered stones
- Clean up the inside walls of the setting
- Finish setting straight walled, rounded, or tapered
- Cut a daylight at the back of the setting
- Incorporate stone in a 3D shape: fish and bunny
Tools and materials
- Wax slices/wax block
- Faceted gemstones
- Saw + sawblades
- Hand files + needle files
- Callipers
- Dividers + ruler + scribe
- Dental cement spatula/carving tools
- Micro motor/foredom and ball burrs (different sizes)
- Superglue/beeswax
What’s included
- 65 page PDF with photos and written instructions. You can download the PDF for easier access
- 8 instructional videos, around 2.5 hours total
- Opportunity to ask questions
- Lifetime access to all the material
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Tutor
Hi I’m Sandy. I learned jewellery making, including wax carving, at the School of Jewellery in Dublin. After finishing my course, I taught at the school for a year and I also taught a wax carving workshop at Lucy Walker Jewellery in Kuala Lumpur. After learning all the basics of wax carving, I practiced and experimented A LOT. Something didn’t work out the first time I tried it? No problem, just try again (and again and again…) until it does work! Practice really is the only way to get better at something :) I love wax carving and I’m excited to teach you!