How To Carve Candles At Home

Pick the instrument based on how deep you want the engraving and the width of the lines that you want.

How to carve candles at home. The carved candles are truly a permanent collectible lifetime unique product of your own. They show you how to shave strips up the side of the candle carefully twist them into vertical spirals and reattach them at the bottom near the base. Dip the cooled core candle into the color hold it for two to three seconds and remove it.

This can be used as your home position button if your machine does not have homelimit switches. Sharp Instrument Choose an instrument to carve the wax. Warm up the base of the candle using a pan or hot water and then rapidly spin the candle to level the base.

Finally you want to dip the candle in a glaze that will protect your decorative carved candle by keeping everything in place. Place the wax chunks or shavings in a smaller heat-resistant container. Place this smaller container inside the larger pot creating a makeshift double boiler.

Since you are using various colours you would have to melt different measures of paraffin wax. Place a pan of hot water onto the stove then add the instrument if it is metal. By observing a few safety precautions we can avoid many of the hazards that.

Then add dye when each is fully melted. A mechanical pencil that does not have the lead extended an ice pick a steak knife or a screwdriver all work to engrave a candle. Additionally the glaze will give your candle a nice glossy shine.

You can now press this button and your machine will travel to its home position. Once the candle is cooled dip it into another vat. Amazing candle carving designs.