How to carve & create holes in your wax ring (ver.3) => 12 photos

      I measured the exact centre of this tube, as this is so very important further on in this exercise.

 I kept all of the wax areas equal all around the tube by using the callipers. There must be no deviation in lining up for the stones.

  I used a 3-tooth round bur to create a little divot for the next steps of drilling holes.

 

 

 In these holes, I will use another specialised bur to cut fully through the wax tube.

 Keep the bur held in a vertical position and not tilted.

  Pierce the tube of wax completely from the top to the bottom.

 

 With a small-sized bud-shaped bur, physically join these holes together, as shown. 

  When you are drilling through the thick wax tube, please keep the teeth of your carving bur CLEAN OF ALL OF THE RESIDUAL WAX.

  Inspect thoroughly that the underneath wax openings are clean of any wax.

 With a large-sized  #41Flat graver, cut the newly carved spaces on both sides. Please don't use a file of any sort.. The Flat graver will do its work so much cleaner and more accurately. The wax will quickly collect and render the filing unusable in a few moments.

 Which tool would I use to clean the wax channel opening? Is it the file or the Flat graver? I'll let you to decide.

 => These are the 3-toothed cutting burs that I was writing about just now. These are meant to cut into wax but not into metal.