Daria Blue Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 I recently ordered feather palm wax from Candlescience and have been having a lot of fun and good success with it - at least with making pillars. I've tried to make some spheres but I can't seem to make a decent one to save my life. There isn't anything I'm doing differently to the wax or to prep the mold between the pillar and sphere molds - the only difference seems to be the shape of the mold. The problem that I have with the spheres is when I take them out of the mold they have an appearance like that of regular parrafin wax - without any feathering. Occasionally they have what appears to be some frosting, but generally they're just a solid color. Each one I've taken out has also had a good size crack running vertically from the top to the bottom of the candle, being about 1/8th of an inch at the widest. The mold I'm using is metal (just like the pillar molds I use) with a horizontal seam.I heat the wax up to 190-200, add my dye and then pour it into a mold that is about 150-170 degrees. After I pour the wax, I let the mold cool on a cookie rack to ensure even cooling on the entire mold.If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it! I'm very happy with the pillars, but I would definitely love to be able to make some spheres with this wax too!Thanks in advance!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonrose64 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Daria, I make these all the time. Make sure you zap you rmold with the heat gun right before you pour.Don't cool your wax down at all. Pour it good and hot.I have forgot and let the wax cool off to much and got those same results.HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my joy boys Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Not sure where I read this, and I haven't tried it myself, so take this at face value! Try putting a styrofoam cooler around the candle mold so that it doesn't cool too quickly.HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Blue Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Thank you for both of the suggestions! I will try out both of them, I find the Styrofoam to be an interesting idea. I have several containers of packing peanuts and that might be something that would work well to hold the mold snuggly while keeping it from cooling too quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toni S. Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 I've never tried the styrofoam either with my Palm but have read many threads on a different board where people have done this with much success. I plan on definitely trying it with my next palm pours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeana Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 I was told a while back by a supplier that palm has to be poured close to 200 degrees to make best patterns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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