BruceCarvesWax

Depending on how fast you poured them I dont think they will come out "too" bad. Over 200F would be better of course but 170 might not be bad if there were enough bunched together to keep them all warm. 3x9 molds hold a good amount of wax I think you might just come out alright. Bruce Well i just noticed you dont use tin molds so that might be more of a problem but I still would give it a 50/50 chance of them being ok.

My view on it is if they have not been able to sell them in 5 months they must not be displayed or promoted them right. I dont know how large of a store or what kind of inventory they have but 5 months is a long time for them to have product left unless it was a large order. Most stores want to turn their whole store inventory several times each year to keep the money flowing in and the products looking fresh. I doubt that frosting is the real reason they pulled them off the shelves. Space is valuable and if for some reason they were just not selling they just may have wanted to try something else in that spot. Bruce

I saw a case of them at a fleamarket within the past 2 weeks. You can get them pretty cheap if you have a local food service wholesale company. No shipping that way and with shipping the way it is, that could save you tons. Bruce

I want the bottom left candle in each of the pictures, tell your other customer tough luck! Really fantastic looking candles there Sab! Bruce

Heres my thinking on candles or any other thing Im doing, I dont want what everyone else has I want BETTER so why should I get a formula from someone else? When I started making incense I hated store bought incense and thought thats all there were, but nooooooo I found out they can be so much better with the right combination of materials. Bruce

Candles that have not been burned atleast once are said to be bad luck. They should be burned atleast once. (Im screwed) The Huge candles on that site listed in MM are only 9.44 inches in diam for the taller ones that look to be about 5 feet high. I bet the ones at peaks are not 12 inch diam but might be 5 feet high, and anyone that says they have seen them this size just has NO idea what this big of a candle will look like. No way kids no way. Bruce

Thanks everyone, I will check these scent out and see if I can come up with one that smells something like what I had. Bruce

Nice soaps! I see a dragon in the front one. His face is pointing down the top black is the closed eye. I see a fang tooth coming up from the mouth and a horn on the top of his head. Hows that for imagination! Could see it better if that bar was rotated counter clockwise. Bruce

I need a nice wine scent like cabernet. I have been using the one from pourette but they seem to be gone so I need a replacement. It took me 3 years to find this one so my hopes are not high in finding the perfect one but maybe some of you will have an idea. Using regular wax, not a koolaid grape smell, no sweet grape just nice red or dark wine is what Im looking for. Thanks! Bruce

Yep everything looks great. I guess you had a little wind like we did this weekend. The table covers in the first picture looks like your tables are sitting on bean bags they are soo puffed up. lol Glad your sales were good. Bruce

OHHHH how I soooo see a whole nother post coming about whats going to happen next! Bruce

Ummm yep! http://www.metacafe.com/watch/746435/the_naked_soda_can/ Bruce

Real nice candles and I too love that scent. Bruce

Im not sure if thats the company I know of but a friend in Il told me she gets it from a chemical supply house in stlouis and buys like 50# or 100# bags and the price is so low you couldnt pass it up. 50 cents to 1.00 a pound something like that. Bruce

not bulk but cheaper than the other place: http://rochester.hostforweb.net/~candleco/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=3463986.15787*_X6IS4&p_id=Reed&xm=on&ppinc=search2

Those are easy! Heck just unwrap a case of wax and drill a few wick holes and your set! LOL Cool white you have there... you sure its not a block of lard??? Bruce

Screw it, im using ear wax! Should be able to crank out about 1 candle a month unless I visit the local nursing homes for "natural harvesting" then I could be back to full production! Bruce

I use to heat wax to over 300F to make sand candles all the time. I think they are saying for safety reasons we should all think of wax as having a Flash point of about 300F. Like the quote said in general the actual flash point on most regular wax is around 396F which I just call it "close to 400F" If you tell some one its 396f and their thermo sucks, they could blow up the house thinking they are below the flash point. Saying 300f gives you a safe bumper zone and I think thats why it say that in the quote. Bruce

Quote from a web site I found just now: wicks-wax-scents Safety Tips for Wax Melting Never have the wax in direct contact with the heat source. Wax is like grease, as it has a flash point. In general, wax has a flash point of 395 degrees. A flash point is the point where the wax is so hot that it burst into flames all by itself. So I say "IN GENERAL" the flash point of wax is 300 degrees. I tell everyone - if wax is smoking, it is too hot. The vapors produced are extremely flammable for any heat source like a stove. Use the double boiler. Don't melt it in a microwave. Our wax isn't made for this. I like my wax at 150 degrees for a variety of reasons. Most paraffin waxes have a flash point around 395° F. When it reaches its flash point it may not smoke or bubble, it will usually just explode, splattering flaming wax in all directions. To avoid this catastrophe, always use the double boiling method to melt your wax. Water boils at 212° F, which is well below the flash point of any paraffin wax.

I think the reason for the tealights is the low mp cheap azz wax they use to make their tealights with. I have never has one of my tealights catch on fire but have heard many time of the store bought cheap ones looking like a can of sterno. The cheaper the wax the more oil content the lower the melting point and flash point. I am not sure that combustion and flash are seperate but they might be. I know that wax turns into a vapor at around 400F depending on the wax and thats what will catch on fire the vapor. Bruce

I'm going to repeat what I have said here before, I think its when they trim the wick and don't take the wick "droppings" out of the melt pool. When the candle burns down low enough the wick trimmings catch back on fire and THATS what raises the temp of the wax high enough to catch the whole darn thing on fire. I don't think it has to do with wax type or fragrance oil as much as the wick. Bruce

HP for me all the way. I have all kinds of laser printers here but my fav is the 4600. Had it for over 2 years and just had to replace a couple of toners a few weeks ago.. and i print alot. No matter how cheap your printer is to first buy... its all about how many copies they will make before you have to replace the toners, fuser, drum, and transfer. Each one of these items could cost you over 100.00 to replace and the higher the monthly duty rate of the printer (max pages per month) the less you have to replace these items. (heavy duty is better) I alway always always buy my printers on ebay and have never had a bad deal. I bet you could buy the 4600 printer cheap on ebay right now and I put a hard drive in mine for about 50.00 extra (ebay) and now I can just print from my printer without turning on my computer. I have a 20 gig hard drive that I load my labels, flyers ect and just push the buttons on the front of the pinter to find my "stored" jobs and they start printing right away because you dont have the lag time of the computer sending the job to the printer. Bruce

Some candle carvers us floor wax to give their candles a heavy glaze. I dont know why it wouldnt work for your candle. You need a very clear looking one and not one that is to clean and shine your floor just shine. You can brush or dip it on and can cut if with water up to 50/50. Test on a scrap candle to see how it does. Bruce

Ok, from a guys point of view.... I just cant get past the 30 ounces per night statement !!! WOW My mind wandered and froze up right after I read that, sorry. (.)(.) :tiptoe: Bruce

I dont know how it works today but a few years back you didnt have to list any ingredients for your soap as long as you dont make any claims that your soap is good for this and that like dry skin, itching ect. Rules might have changed in the past few years, im not sure but that would be one way to get around listing lard. Bruce