2nd GG palm candle. Thanks for the advice

[brudil18]

Hi all,

I made my second GG palm container and took the advice of preheatng the jars. I preheated at 170 (as low as my oven will go :smiley2: ).

I think it turned out pretty good. Let me know what you think. I've seen other pics of GG palm containers and I'm just not sure if mine looks the same or not. Hopefully you can tell me if my second one looks good or not.

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http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/41421/2003282659193281976_rs.jpg

http://aycu13.webshots.com/image/39412/2003282710930789624_rs.jpg

I'm test burning my first one and the CSN 14 wick I used really mushrooms. Is that normal for these wicks? Other than that I do get a good melt pool and the HT throw is pretty good, but I think the CT is much better. I do have a littl bit of wax left on the sides from the first burn (4 hours). I'm hoping that will go away on my successive burns.

Thanks for all the advice.

Bruce

[kimmeroo]

It turned out great! I use csn's also and I have a had a couple shroom,I trim my wicks every hour or so..then re-lite.It should catch up towards the last burn of the candle.Palm wax burns down and out so it takes almost to the end to catch up.

Kimmeroo

[anabanana's candles]

MUCH BETTER.

I used to use csn, but the flames were way to big for me. I switched to CD and love them for palm and soy.

[littlebrownbug]

You have made an excellent looking palm container candle. Let us know if the single wick works well for you in that size of apothecary jar.

So far,we have found that we have had to double wick this size of jar in order to get a really good clean burn. The downside of that is the jars seem to get really hot and we are using the CSN 9's. We are going to test the CSN 7's double wicked in these jars to see if that would still work and yet not get the jars quite so hot.

Mike