Hello I am new to the site but signed up after I read Ramr's post on 9/3/18 about making your own wood wicks. It made me feel better to know I was not the only one out there trying to do the same. I am also knew to candle making and so far I have used wooden wicks from Country Lane ( Hobby Lobby) and the latest from Northwood Distributing. They burned well, I never trimmed them once after burning and they always relit. Did not even realized you had to trimmed them until some reading well after I had made about 4 or 5 test candles. Anyway, I have spent the better part of my evening trying to find and article online or a video to show me how to make my own wicks. I understand these companies make them but seriously, the idea came from somewhere and I have even seen some wood wicks that are wider than the standard wood wicks sold. So I figure those must be custom made. I did see the article about how to do it with Balsa wood but the article show a stick that resembled a square wooden dowel as oppose to the flat almost sliver or sheet like, thin pieces of wood sold as wooden wicks. I was thinking I could take a piece of lumber and trim off a stick that thin, even if its the length of the piece of lumber, you could just cut it up into smaller pieces giving you several wooden wicks. But my problem is my usual medium is batter ( cake and cookie) not wood. I have been trying to identify a tool that might let me slice off a piece of lumber turned on its side and do it in one piece and without it being sooo thin it curls or breaks. After reading about you adventures as another member stated, I see you are use to cutting wood but like you Ramr, not about t open a mill for a few wood wicks. Anyone know of a tool a newbie to wood working could use to cut a thin slice of wood from a piece of lumber and do it in one long piece?
