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 ...

A couple of posts back I boasted that I had ordered a jeweler's bench to use as my wax carving workstation. True story, and I have been working with it for a few days. I just figured out how to use my PanaVise with the bench and I just published an article in the tools section. I have many of m...

I didn't exactly find the lost wax but I did recreate it. I lost version 1.0 of this Celtic Trinity design when my first casting attempt failed. I had some Wolf gold wax and I had to "weld" two pieces together to get a wide enough blank. I then made a template for the design, pasted it on the wax an...

Since my passion for wax carving is expanding every day, I have realized a big drawback is an uncomfortable place to do the carving. I am working in my unconditioned garage and that does create some problems with wax in hot weather. But it is not just the temperature control. I do a lot of the dirty...

New project with reoccurring theme. I like the Celtic designs. They are interesting to make and have a certain mystic symbolism. There are various names for this simple design, Trinity being one of them. I was born into a Presbyterian church where the Celtic cross is a church icon. This was the firs...