- Here's one done in Microcrystaline modeling wax. It's the worst to attempt tiny detail in carving.
Decided to make a couple rings. The wax isn't the kind to use for carving, it's a pain in the arse due to being too soft and gums up the tools used to carve with. Ends up taking more time than necessary to get anywhere close to what the detail needs to be. Figure this is close enough, though, (at this point) and will invest them and cast into zinc. Once made of zinc, they will be far easier to finish and detail using a dremmel with dental bits, then I can make silicone molds of the zinc originals and cast multiples in wax to sprue together and cast in groups of five or six at a time. The end products will be cast in silver. Been sit'n on a bunch of silver coins I've collected since my 20's. None of 'em ('cept for the Morgan silver dollars) have amounted to any value other than the silver content itself. The silver value is actually far more valuable as jewelery than the coins themselves. Since bikers love skull memorabilia I figure what the heck... turn'em into skull rings and see if I can turn'em for a nice profit. I know there are a lot of skull rings on the market already but all of 'em are stylized and hardly represent an anatomically correct skull. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones has a very nice one which many artists have attempted to copy but none of 'em, in my opinion, measure up. I figure I can do better.
There are four harley dealerships within driving distance I'm considering putting them for sale into. $350 each. Like I said above, the quality of the waxes are NOT the quality of what the end products will have. I'm going about this the hard way purely out of stubborness and lack of something better to do with my time.
So consider this an example of what a fella can do with crap on hand and the tools we so enjoy mess'n about with.
The finals will be far superior in quality. The profits i make off these jewels I'll put toward better wax and begin to carve out other products I've envisioned and designed to make I can use as patterns to cast.
I saw a bike in town the other day that had to have at least 20 skulls painted or in castings all over his custom bike. It looked cool from a distance but up close it was just too much.