Everito Bandito

Very nice candles - really like the first darker pic where you can see the candles glowing.

Get a tape measure and measure out 12 feet, 3 inches square. That will be the size of it less 24/100 hundrenths of an inch. If the space is square that is. You could also measure 10 x 15 for 150 square ft.

I was at a friend's house last night watching the Carolina - Miss. State footabll game and he had decorated his mantel and a table with a total of about 22 - 3 inch round pillars of different heights and two ball candles (same size) and they were all colorless paraffins. The way that he had done it looked really good.

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J.B. Quick - it's shorter..

What can I say these candles need nothing else except to go to the happy couples.

Very nice candles - well done on the rustic and the colors - might want to hold onto them until sometime in october though. You may still get the chance to use them as originaly intended.

It looks kind of like banana nut bread,(guess Michi and I were writing at the same time - only I was slower..lol.) uh humm I mean candy corn. I have had my fair share of rejects that looked much worse than your first ever thought about. I think that for many people, their first pillar pour has a little bit of apprehension to go along with a bit of excitement. I know mine did. It will get easier with each one unless you do like I do and keep coming up with other new "ideas" right in the middle of the pour.

Sometime when you have the time, try about 3 or 4 drops of ivory per lb. as someone else said earlier in the thread. The ivory made a deep gold that you might like as well. Ay least mine did. One other thing - whatcha gonna do with all those eggs.

Elegant and beautiful. I like the idea of using the tea-light for anniversaries.

Love them all :smiley2: Really nice!

One other word - Gorgeous! :smiley2:

A natural born candle carver you are. Those really do look great!

That's looking pretty good.

This statement from my previous post: If you want to you can add about 3 tablespoons stearic to that 4625 wax and will likely get a rustic look from it. "I believe that the 4625 is a preblended wax which probably contains some vybar 103 which can kill the mottle effect, but you would still have a good chance at getting the frosted look. You could play around with it while you are waitng for the 1343." was based on looking at the candles in these threads. http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5580&highlight=4625 http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5219&highlight=4625 http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28587&highlight=4625 http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4094&highlight=4625 I suppose that they really aren't frosted so, on that aspect I was mistaken, but they do look pretty cool. That's basically all I was getting at googs when I said that you could play around with it and likely get a rustic look from it. It looks like none of them were really frosting though as they have more of a slick look to them. No matter as your 1343 will be in your hands soon. :smiley2:

If you are using straight paraffin then you can add vybar 103 to gain a greater scent oil retention threshold. Here is a product description: http://www.candlewic.com/store/Product.aspx?q=cWax+Additives,p171 If you are using a mottling wax and want to retain the mottle effect you can use vybar 343 in place of vybar 103 which kills motting effect. Here is a description of vybar 343. http://www.candlewic.com/store/Product.aspx?q=cWax+Additives,p676

Maybe what they were talking about was using them with pillar wick pins. The wick pin base is slightly cone shaped and when placed under the concave one it would be a better fit.

Well Done!

Good point - My mind just wasn't on it. I suppose that since I am just a hobbiest and don't make very many candles, the cost difference just isn't a real strong reference point for me. However, from your and other's perspective I can certainly see how it would be.

Soy seems to smoke less - Pariffin looks better. Just a couple of my thoughts on it. Someone else might see it differently. It still boils down to whatever you decide on. You can order some smaller samples and play around with it. Order a bit of soy. Then order a small amount of parasoy blend or blend some yourself. (I did) Read the "Vegetable wax candle making" forum and get some ideas of what waxes you might want to order samples of. Do searches of the wax and find out all that you can about it. Play around with them and above all, Have Fun. I like my blend best because it looks decent, burns well, doesn't smoke much at all and has a pretty decent hot and cold throw. It is 50% ecosoya pure blended with 50% J223. I have some other 10 lb. blocks of paraffin and some GB 464 than I plan to blend soon. I will also test them seperately. I might like that even better, who knows. Just my opinion but, the only real advantage that I can currently see that soy has over paraffin is that it smokes less. I suppose that if I were selling candles and customers wanted the all soy candles then that would be another adavantage. As for pillar candles, I'm a paraffin only user, but may try some palm in the future.

As for getting pictures from camera to computer, my camera (cannon) came with software which I installed. It came with a USB cord that one end plugs into the camera and the other is a USB plug for the computer. When I want to transfer pics to the computer I just plug the camera into the computer and turn the camera on. The software has an autorun feature and comes on automatically when the camera is turned on. HTH a little...maybe yours is the same or similar.

I like that, very innovative!

Those look really nice and I love the labels as well.