By Dan Kautz on Monday, 16 March 2015
Category: Lost Wax

A Familiar Ring

I am presently working on hand carving an Amateur Radio callsign ring for myself. This a really wide band style ring 13 mm wide. My callsign is W5EHS. It wont be something I wear all the time but it will flash a little bling at ham radio activities. It is also intended to be some advertisement that I make call sign rings.

 Here you can see how I hold the ring when I am carving it. This is 100% hand carved and not made on my CNC mill. I admit the mill will make a lot more accurate design, but it would not have the same feeling (spirit) as being hand carved.

The letters are close to being as I want. I my want to lower the height a bit more. I am also contemplating a little more detail on the back side. Maybe an inscription of some kind.

As I have said many times, I really enjoy the wax carving and also the lost wax casting process that turns my designs into solid silver.

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