3D Wax Printing

18/08/2026

Warning: Extremely satisfying layers ahead... 🎞️🔥
Ever wonder how your digital CAD designs transform into a perfectly packed tray of casting-ready rings? This is the exact moment the magic happens on our industrial build line!
Watch closely as the printhead sweeps across the plate. What you're seeing is a perfectly synchronized dance between two distinct materials engineered for one goal: total casting perfection.
Why this makes life a whole lot easier at the bench:
🚫 Zero Support Scars: That white material under the wax is fully dissolvable. It completely melts away in our post-processing tanks, meaning your bench jewelers never have to waste time cutting or filing away ugly support marks from delicate galleries.
💎 Flawless Detail: Those ultra-flat, crisp wax layers mean glass-smooth finishes, razor-sharp micro-prongs, and perfect texturing straight out of the kiln.
⚡ Double the Muscle: High-volume plates like this run day and night across our synchronized hubs. Your supply chain is rock solid.
Less time fixing rough castings = more time doing what you do best. 🛠️✨

07/08/2026

Empty build plate. Four hours later. Hundreds of casting-ready wax patterns. 🔥

No rubber moulds. No injection equipment. No tooling costs. No minimum orders. Just your CAD file and a build plate full of perfect wax patterns ready to cast. 💍

Traditional way:
❌ Master model → rubber mould → injection setup → fix imperfections → THEN cast

Our way:
✅ CAD file → print in real wax → cast. Done.

No tooling. No waiting weeks for a mould. No extra cost every time the design changes. Just send us the file and we handle the rest. 😄

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

👉 [email protected] | [email protected] | 3dwax.co.za

04/08/2026

One build plate. Multiple clients. Dozens of different designs. All printing at the same time! 🤯

This is what a typical day at 3D Wax Printing looks like — and it’s a great reminder that we don’t just print one type of ring. We print ALL kinds! 💍

Spot what’s on this plate:

🔹 Classic solitaire engagement ring shanks
🔹 Split shank settings with pavé shoulders
🔹 Plain and textured band profiles
🔹 Multi-prong centre stone mounts
🔹 Intricate decorative ring tops

All different. All detailed. All printing simultaneously in 100% real castable wax. 🔥

From the simplest clean band to the most complex custom piece. Because whatever your next design looks like, the process is always the same:

Send us your CAD file ➡️ We print it in real wax ➡️ Your caster does the rest. Simple! 😄

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

📩 [email protected] | [email protected] | 3dwax.co.za

31/07/2026

100 rings. 4 hours 30 minutes. ONE build plate. 🤯

Every single one of those rings is a fully detailed engagement ring with pavé settings, split shanks, and a precision centre stone mount. Not simple bands — DETAILED rings. All printing at the same time. All at 16 micron resolution. All done before lunchtime. 🔥

For anyone running production volumes — do the maths. 👇

✅ 100+ wax patterns per build
✅ 4.5 hours total print time
✅ Same quality on piece 100 as piece 1
✅ Every piece individually cleaned and flask-ready

Scale is not a problem. Quality doesn’t drop at volume. And your next order can be on the printer tonight. 😊

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

📩 [email protected] | [email protected] |

28/07/2026

Layer by layer. Dream by dream. 🔥

This is our wax printer in slow motion — and honestly? It never gets old. 🤯

Every pass of that print head deposits a layer just 16 microns thick. For context — a human hair is 70 microns. We’re printing at less than a quarter of that. Over and over. Perfectly. Every single time.

THIS is why the detail holds all the way to casting. 💍

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

27/07/2026

Fun Fact Monday! 💡

Every single ring you see on this build plate was printed in ONE single run. Not one at a time. Not in small batches. ALL of them, at the same time! 🤯

While each ring is building up layer by micron-thin layer, every other ring on the plate is doing exactly the same thing simultaneously. The printer doesn’t slow down for detail and it doesn’t slow down for quantity — a full plate like this takes the same print time as just a handful of simple bands. 🔥

For jewellers and manufacturers doing production runs, this changes everything:

✅ Consistent quality across every single piece on the plate
✅ No variation from the first piece to the last
✅ Next-day turnaround no matter how full the build plate is

Every piece still gets individually hand cleaned and scar-free support removal before it reaches your casting house — but the printing itself? That all happened at once. 😍

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

👉 Send us a message or visit 3dwax.co.za to get started!

22/07/2026

Not every design is a signet ring! 😄

We've been showing you a lot of that recently — but today we're switching it up with something completely different. Look at these two beautiful floral pieces! 🌸

Two stages in one shot:
🔹 Left — fresh off the printer, supports still attached. You can actually see the red support material showing exactly where the print was anchored during the build
🔹 Right — supports removed and cleaned. Same piece, zero marks, full detail intact and ready to sprue

And THIS is where 3D wax printing really shines on organic designs like this one — all those flowing petals, the radiating structure, the fine open lattice — try carving that by hand! 😅 The kind of design that's easy in CAD but nearly impossible to translate into wax any other way.

Every curve. Every petal. Every lattice cell. Printed in 100% real castable wax and ready for the casting floor. 🔥

Whatever your design looks like — we can print it!

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

👉 Send your CAD file to [email protected] or [email protected]

20/07/2026

Fun fact: those tweezers get a serious workout every single day! 😂

Every wax pattern you see lined up here has been cleaned and prepped by hand — one by one, support by support, piece by piece. No machine does this part for us. Just steady hands, sharp eyes, and the right tools. 🔧

And here's the thing most people don't realise — the wax patterns we send out are so clean that most of the time your casting house won't even be able to tell where the supports were attached. That's the whole point! ✨

Because any mark left on the wax becomes a mark in your casting. And marks in the casting become bench work. And bench work costs time and money that nobody wants to spend.

So yes, we take the cleaning seriously. Very seriously. 😄

From our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

👉 Want patterns that arrive ready to sprue? Send us a message or visit 3dwax.co.za!

19/07/2026

Are you in the jewellery trade and rely on lost wax casting? 💍 Then you need to know about us!

At 3D Wax Printing we do one thing, and we do it really well — we produce high quality castable wax patterns for jewellers, designers, and casting houses across South Africa, from our studios in Cape Town and Johannesburg. 🌝

Here’s what we bring to your production process:

✅ 100% REAL castable wax — not resin, not a substitute. Genuine wax that burns out clean every single time
✅ Send us your CAD file, we handle the rest — your design printed exactly as modelled
✅ Scar-free support removal — every pattern arrives clean and ready for the flask
✅ Detail that hand-carving can’t match — internal lattices, complex geometry, fine engraving, all no problem
✅ Next-day turnaround on most files — so your production never has to slow down
✅ One pattern or a full production run — we scale to whatever your business needs

Whether you’re an independent jeweller, a custom CAD designer, or a large-scale manufacturer — if you need a wax pattern that performs perfectly from print to pour, we’ve got you covered! 🔥

📩 Ready to get started? Send your CAD file directly to:
Joe — [email protected]
Ian — [email protected]

13/07/2026