How To Carve Candle Wax

Now with a toothpick or a small knife begin to slowly carve your candle.

How to carve candle wax. You can start on any point of the star of course. The whole process begins with a six-pointed candle base. The stickiness and elasticity of the microcrystalline soft wax make it a good choice for this type of work.

Candle tunneling can occur in any candle regardless of the quality or type of wax but it is more likely to happen with cheap candles. Press the base to the candle. Maintain the wax at a temperature high enough to keep it melted but cool enough not to strip the wax from the candle when it it dipped.

Now before the wax completely cools down you want to quickly carve your design. Candle tunneling occurs when only the center of the wax right around the wick melts and burns down. If you are trying to attract some positive energy in your life then you should dress your candle from the middle to the bottom.

Now we finally came to the carving part. The simple Candlefun special candle carving tools will help a beginner to carve beautiful candles on the first day. Check out this stunning and satisfying compilation of beautiful hand-carved candles by DIMSI TVTheyre too beautiful to burn and the way theyre made is od.

If you go through a lot of dip and cool cycles you will notice that some excess wax might form at the bottom of the candle. Then the candle carver dips the candle into various waxes that have been colored with specially formulated dyes. It would not be so noticeable when you are done.

You have almost exactly seven minutes before the wax is too cold to carve. 086 is merely an average. But seven minutes is a long time.