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I only use the Dollar Tree Status jars for myself, I don't sell them or even give them away because they're not certified candle-safe glassware.

There was a candle shop in my area that said those jars were her bestseller and also her fundraiser candle, and she didn't use lids she wrapped them in cello with a gold elastic bow on top. But, since she made several kinds of candles they could sniff the ones with lids. That said, I personally wouldn't sell the Dollar Tree Status jar because it's not on anybody's approved list of candle-safe, so if the customer power burns it and it overheats and breaks and you get sued for fire damage, injury, or wrongful death, you'd be liable. I do use that jar to test in so I can have an idea of how to wick a 12 oz Status jar from a candle supplier before buying the more expensive jars.

Those candles sound lovely! Do you have a pic you can post here?

And I'm curious as a Muskrat!

You shouldn't get a full melt pool until the 3rd or 4th burn session. Your glass is quite a bit taller than it is wide, so a full melt pool on the 4th burn session will be good. A burn session is 1 hour for each inch of diameter, so for your container it would be 2 hrs and 45 minutes, or you can round up to 3 hours. It also depends on how full you're filling your container, because if you fill it too full there's not enough glass at the top to help trap heat so the wick has to do all the work and it will take you more burn sessions to get a full melt pool. The HTP 73 should work well in your container. Also, how hot is too hot? If you touch the glass with a cool hand it will feel extremely hot, but if you hold your hands under warm or hot water first, the glass won't feel that hot, so how hot it feels can be relative. Like when you first stick your foot in a hot tub with 104 to 108 degree water it's so painfully hot you quickly pull your foot back out, but after a while you can get your whole body in that hot water and if feels good. The glass has to get hot enough for the wax to melt off of the sides. I can't remember what temperature the National Candle Associate says is the max temp for the glass, but I think it's 140 degrees? Not sure about that though, so I hope somebody else here will comment on the max temperature for the glass. All candles get hot at the bottom, so if you get one of those thermometers that you can aim at the side of the jar and read the temperature, that's more reliable than trying to tell by touching the glass.

"Refusal"?? I was nicely encouraging you to go ahead and start your own thread about your question by kindly reassuring you that you would get just as many responses as I, or anybody else, would.

I have an idea: Maybe one of us can call IGI and find out which IGI staffer we can send a sample of the TCS tart wax to so they can try to identify it and tell us if it's one of their waxes, and which wax it is.

What's "not very nice" of me? There's nothing in my comment that's not nice.

I'm not popular, I just post a lot. Most of the others have way more experience than I do. You'll get just as many replies to your comments as anybody, just post the question in the General Candle Making section. There are a couple of threads where we've discussed that the HTP 126 is bigger than the HTP 1212 and 1213, so they shouldn't put it between the HTP 105 and the 1212 on the wick charts.

The HTP 126 does make a big smokey flame for me in the containers I've tried it in so far, and I've never used it to wick anything because I can't get it to stop smoking like a chimney. I'm thinking it's not that compatible with 4627. But, who knows, maybe there's a container it would work in with 4627. Have you successfully used it in any of your containers?

Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing that fix with us. How's the HT on those candles? is it as strong as you'd get with just plain 4627?

Lollipop Kiss is adorable! Popsicle Kiss would work too.

You could use these blue jars to do a Mermaid or Neptune line, and decorate them with pieces of sea glass and shells tied around the jar on a little piece of fishing net twine or something.

Haha! I remember you once posted you have a crush on the regular version of that jar anyway, so the blue ones will be even more irresistible! Whatever happened to the Beach Cottage line you were working on in the pint mason with the cute hang tags, did you add it to your store?

Hi, sixx! Nice to meet you!

Okay, great!

Thanks, Cynthia! There must be more cases out there, so this will help a lot.

I understand, but that puts me in the position of being afraid to buy another case of 4627 because any supplier I buy it from might be the supplier that sold you the bad wax. If the supplier doesn't take your complaint seriously, that's his problem. All business owners know that the customer is always right, because if a customer is not satisfied they're going to tell at least 8 other people about it, which will end up costing the business more money in lost business than if they had just satisfied the customer by replacing or refunding the product. But thanks for getting those batch numbers for us anyway, that will be a big help. :smiley2:

Providing the supplier's name doesn't mean it's their fault, it just means that they will resolve the problem by working with IGI or whatever distributor they bought the faulty wax from, and then they'll put a notice on their website to let everyone know that the problem was resolved. The suppliers can afford to work these things out and they have ways of recouping their losses, but a struggling chandler, who buys a whole case of bad wax, can really get hurt, especially if they don't test burn their candles before selling them and the customers end up with a bad, or even dangerous, product.

Thanks, Jeanie! I guess I'm going to have to learn to make crumbles. lol

You can make your tarts in the form of white crumbles to put in those jars with a cute little scoop tied to the neck.

I LOVE those lids! What's "Robertson Family/Duck Dynasty"?

It's gone beyond redneck weddings and now it's trendy for yuppies to do it, they like to do the rustic, vintage style.

That regular mouth pint mason is adorable! And they're very trendy right now with people using them to decorate and even to drink out of at parties and weddings. I bet if you call all the hardware stores in your area and give them the Item # of the blue jars, you'll find one whose warehouse has them, and they'll order them for you. Oh! I just remembered that Hobby Lobby carries Ball jars, which you can buy individually or order them by the case, especially on the bi-monthly 50% off glassware sale days. I bet they'll get the blue jars, and maybe they have them right now; I'll check their website.

Ace and Tru Value didn't have the Heritage Collection Ball jars in their warehouses yet in Arkansas and Texas, so I called Midtown Hardware who's website is DoItBest.com, and their Waco, Texas warehouse does have the jars. I ordered two cases of 6 jars for aprox $9.00 each case, and I can pick them up on Monday with free shipping. He said I could see the jars on the DoItBest.com website, but I don't see them there, so he must have been looking at his DoItBest.com warehouse webpage.