Wax Carving Experiments

I've been meaning to make a cufflink back for ages now, so thought I'd return to my wax carving experiments.  I had rather forgotten how messy wax carving is! I started with a little block of green wax, marked out a rough outline of the cufflink fitting, then carved and filed around the outline, thus covering my entire bench, floor (and occasionally cat!) in green dust.

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The wax is then cast into silver for further refining of the shape and sanding.

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All that's left to do now is to sprue it and make a mould.

Oh, and make some cufflinks to go with it of course...