Beeswax casting, creating a beeswax tree

Beeswax tree is made by affixing a thin beeswax rod to the back of each beeswax character, which is then attached to a thick beeswax cylinder that acts as the tree trunk. When doing this, beeswax rods are attached to the trunk at an angle with the characters facing up so that the rods later provide paths for molten metal to flow to the negative space where beeswax characters used to be.