How To Carve Candle Wax

Now before the wax completely cools down you want to quickly carve your design.

How to carve candle wax. The carved candles are truly a permanent collectible lifetime unique product of your own. Now we finally came to the carving part. Now with a toothpick or a small knife begin to slowly carve your candle.

The less wax you have the less blankets of heat you have to keep your candle warm as your carving. Then the candle carver dips the candle into various waxes that have been colored with specially formulated dyes. These beautiful candles are made by partially cutting off - using a sharp knife or a Stanley - slices of a freshly dipped candle and twist or curl them in various shapes and directions.

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. This would ensure that each layer gets a little hard before the next is added and so the layers would not mix. The more wax you have the more round the star becomes and harder to carve.

Focus all your positive energy into the intention you want to imprint into the candle. You can start on any point of the star of course. Step 2 Place the stoneware plate in the bottom of the soup pot place the pop bottles in the pot and then fill the pot to within an inch of the rim with water.

You can easily cut this away while the wax is still pliable. Carve the wax in varying lengths at different levels around the rest of the candle to create visual interest. Choose an instrument to carve the wax.

If you are trying to attract some positive energy in your life then you should dress your candle from the middle to the bottom. But seven minutes is a long time. If candle tunneling occurs over time youll end up with a ring of hard wax around the outside of the candle.