A: Look close at the pens picture. You will see the prongs coming out of the tip. These heat up so you can melt your designs into wax chunks. In this manner you can make a wax casting. You would then place it in a canister, pour investment plaster around it, let that set up, then fire it. Let it cool, torch your chosen metal, pour it into your cast, allow that to cool, then break the cast open and remove your own cast metal object. This process is called "The Lost Wax Process" as the wax model inside is burned out leaving the exact space needed for your metals to flow into. This pen is faster than simply carving the wax by hand with tools, knives; or building a model by adding warmed wax like you could in clay. The tubes give a ring design a head start, just cut off a piece the width of the shank you need. Spue wax sticks can be used to add design areas, heat them and drip the extra wax onto your large model, let that cool then start designing. They come in different colors, which help you in mapping the surface of your design to denote other metals; these areas can then be sawed off or cut away- cast separately in other metals and then connected back onto the base model. Colored wax can mark out where differing finishes are to go, bright cuts, satin finish, engraving, gems. These would have to be smoothed flat before casting the final model, but are a big help in understanding and building your designs.
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Answer provided by: Sherrie Phillips (9/1/2023)
