Jewelry Glossary - W

• Water-Soluble Wax
  Wax used as a foundation for building a wax model for a piece of jewelry which will appear heavy or bulky but will actually be quite thin. The foundation wax is dissolved before the casting.
  
• Wax Lap
  A lap coated with wax for polishing soft materials.
  
• Wax Pen
  An electric pen for making wax models that keeps the wax melted, to be released through a trigger tip.
  
• Wax Pot
  Electric pot for keeping wax at the proper temperature for making models for casting.
  
• Wax Wire
  Round wax wires of different gauges, which can be twisted and bent into designs for wax jewelry models.
  
• Wet Belt Sander
  Complete, ready-to-use sander for cabs and flats.
  
• Wet-or-Dry Belts
  Silicon carbide sanding belts.
  
• Wheel Cement
  A bonding agent for abrasive discs or polishing pads.
  
• White Diamond
  A fine tripoli polish.
  
• White Oil
  A preferred cutting oil for slab saws.
  
• Winding Jig
  Metal or hardwood jig with wire protrusions for winding filigree wire into intricate designs, which are then removed from the jig by a lifting plate.
  
• Wire Saw
  An iron, diamond-charged saw blade, straight rather than circular.
  
• Work Hardened
  Metal which has been worked gets increasingly harder, so that it must be annealed to maintain its workability.