Beeswax thread

[Erichalfbee]

What do you do with the rest?

I'm sure HM gives it back to the bees

 

[Erichalfbee]

i have recently discovered a facebook group about beeswax
https://www.facebook.com/groups/beeswaxrendering/

some really interesting things on there.

apols if you don't do facebook though.

Thanks for this link.....some winter reading

 

[dpearce4]

some beeswax books for you to read

Ron Browns beeswax book

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b49jxqo3yztpmls/Beeswax Ron Brown.pdf?dl=0


Online beeswax books by Stefan Bogdanov

https://www.dropbox.com/s/84885n57homvfbp/WaxBook1.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p2j9ze0ld6okr60/WaxBook2.pdf?dl=0

enjoy the reads

 

[busybee53]

Ha you made the same mistake I did last year and didn't dip the wick in bees wax


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Yep. You should always dip your wick. Ha ha.

(Well people do use un-dipped wick for hand rolled candles).

 

[coatesg]

some beeswax books for you to read

Thanks for the links to those

 

[Poly Hive]

Some wicking info but do remember you can hardly call your candles pure beeswax if you use other substances in them....

http://www.diynatural.com/how-to-make-candles-natural-beeswax/

http://rusticescentuals.com/Wick-Chart.html

http://www.onestopcandle.com/candle/wickchart.php

I have no experience of these wicks and am posting them as a heads up as to the differences around.

The best plan in my experience is to make say three candles and wick with the three closest sizes, do a test burn and make your mind up based on the experiment. You will see very quickly what works well and what does not, and snuff out the failures and pop them back in the melter. KISS

PH

 

[deanrpwaacs]

We make our beeswax into this.....

I bet it smells lovely in there .

 

[Erichalfbee]

The best plan in my experience is to make say three candles and wick with the three closest sizes, do a test burn and make your mind up based on the experiment. You will see very quickly what works well and what does not, and snuff out the failures and pop them back in the melter. KISS

PH

That's what I do till the wax changes the following year and you have to start again. I made 30 tealights with this years wax using last years wick sizes, tried a burn and had to re-wick....sigh

 

[REDWOOD]

Thrones catalogue gives a guide to wick sizes


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[REDWOOD]

I use J cloths for refining wax what do others use ?


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[Brigsy]

I used nappy liners.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

first filter, lady's nylon stocking doubled up (or gentleman's if my brother's home ) second filter - surgical lint.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Muslin draped over a silicone grid suspended over a foil pastry case lined with a greaseproof circle in a low oven

 

[busybee53]

Old cotton tee shirts cut up.