thewaxman

I even put the candle in the oven and shut the door, and still the flame danced. Also, tried moving into different areas

Hello, anyone out there have some advice on how to stabilize a dancing flame? I am using the zinc-core wick size that was suggested for the candle I am making, which is a paraffin wax container candle in an 8oz jelly jar, zinc-core wick 44-20-18...thx

Greetings, My candles once cooled are showing what can best be described as white blobs, or markings within the wax. Would this be the result of the vybar 260 additive not properly mixing with the dye? I use paraffin wax with a 126 melt point in 8oz. jelly jar containers, less than 1/8 vybar for 1 pound of wax, and I am pouring around 180 degrees. Thanks

Thanks everyone for the responses, I do really appreciate that. Like I mentioned above, I have been using this candle making book as a guide, and the book explains that the second pour should be done 1 hour after the original pour. Next time I will follow the general consensus concerning this topic, and do the second pour 24 hours afterwards. Any advice I've gathered about this problem has been implemented e.g. heating in oven before the pour, spacing candles while cooling, cooling on wire rack, poured at cooler temp, and tapped jar after pouring. Temp at the time of both pours was around 75 degrees, so only a couple of degrees shy of the recommended pour temp.

It is a 8oz. jelly jar container, using 126 melt point paraffin wax, 1/8 vybar 260, 1oz fragrance, and zinc-core wicks. The candles in the pictures were poured at 180 for both pours. My last two candles which are not shown here, were poured at 190, so I made a 10 degree adjustment for these, but it doesn't seemed to have helped. I have been poking relief holes, but as an experiment for my last two I did not, but it did nothing to help with the sinkholes. The holes are rather large, and occur near the wick.

Hello, new to candle making, and everything has been going fairly well except a problem I keep having with sinkholes developing by the wick during the cool down period. They even appear after a second pour. I have been researching the subject online, and there are many suggestions on how to deal with this problem, so I was hoping someone on here might have an understanding as to what works best. One suggestion that I fancy is to allow the candle to completely cool before the second pour, but to be sure and not re-pour past the first pour line. My other re-pours are done after 1 hour of cooling, which is the time recommended by the book I use as a guide.