wanting a smooth looking top

[flatheadhauler]

Can someone tell me why I get candles that look like this.  Most of the candles I have made look like this.( looks like a brain) 

 

 

 

 

[TallTayl]

Hi! Gnarly looking candle top, but it is super interesting.

 

what wax is that? It may give clues to the strange set up.

 

when waxes behave strangely, I start playing with cooling rates and pour temps. 

[flatheadhauler]

27 minutes ago, TallTayl said:

Hi! Gnarly looking candle top, but it is super interesting.

 

what wax is that? It may give clues to the strange set up.

 

when waxes behave strangely, I start playing with cooling rates and pour temps. 

 

[flatheadhauler]

I got wax from Candlewic it is CBL129.  I have poured at different rates.  Do you think that it was poured at high temp.

[ErronB]

That’s 129? Wow. In candles I would pour that stuff at like 190 to get the nice glass adhesion, then do a top-off later. I would expect to see a big dip from shrinkage, but that just looks odd to me. In fact it reminds me of someone posting their melts a while ago which sort of looked like that and it ended up being a batch of wax made wrong. 
 

Id try pouring it very hot at 190 and see what it looks like, if it’s the same then I’d say it’s dodgy wax, but don’t expect to get much help from Candlewic they’ve screwed me big time with crap wax, as well as many others.