I am using 3 different waxes. One is a dental wax sheet (the pinkish red), which is softer than I would like for carving into it but it needs to be soft and flexible to mold around the sheaths, one is the wire wax, which is blue, it is also a bit softer than would be ideal for carving but I couldn’t shape it without that, I also melted the tip of the wire wax and used it as glue to hold the pieces together. The white wax used for the finial on one is by far the worst. Amazon labeled it as a sculpting wax but it is extremely soft and tacky, I was going for a ball with flutes running down it but whenever I try to carve the flutes the ridges between them stick to the picks and start to tear, and little bits of the wax that is supposed to be removed stick to the ridges and the result is a lot messier than I would like. I do have a tool that is supposed to melt the surface smooth, but it is one that you are supposed to heat in a candle flame and it very quickly gets so hot it melts the wax too much so the liquid wax is very thin and runs all over and forms drips, so it hasn’t been very effective at smoothing the parts that are still rough. It did do a better job closing up the seam on the back.
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