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I don't know if anyone else is intersted in this but I wax carving is a great hobby of mine and I would love to hear about others who share the same, slightly strange, interest.

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I've not tried it myself but I've seen alot of gorgeous work done by others.
So what all do you carve?
I have a couple of ongoing projects but I refer wax flowers
you should put up some pictures of your work. Maby we can do a collaboration on something sometime. Maybe a signet ring or something. I have an ideal for a killer walking staff if you could do a rose.

these are three of my peices that I had ready access to, I know the picture quality isn't great. I would love to do a collaboration, it may need to wait a bit I start moving to a new place in 2 days and start school again the day after we finish, I should have a workspace set up by mid october, if you want to get back to me with a few more details
Sounds good, I'm just getting back to college myself. Ill get back to you in October with a few sketches.
This sounds really awesome, but it sounds like it would need to be done in a very specific set of conditions? We have high humidity where I live, so it seems like it would be difficult to keep things hardened and from getting really soft on you? Or perhaps I'm incorrect in my thinking? I guess I'm thinking also with handling the wax as you're carving?? I'm totally an idiot when it comes to this subject. Though it interests me, I've never done it, and I have no idea how to begin going about it.
Hugs and BB,
jen :)
not really no, for the specific conditions. I live in New England where we get everything from jungle tropics to Ice storm and everything in between. I have mostly worked with candle wax up until now so I guess as long as you can keep a candle solid it should be fine. I starte out with dripping wax, to make a christmas gift. I took a pine cone wrapped a bit of softened, but not liquid wax around the bottome to get it to stand up. Then I proceeded to just drip green, white and I think bit of blue and red wax from melting it with a single candle flame, you do this by taking small chunks of wax and carefully pushing it into the flame of a lit candle that has that dip that candles get that have been burning for a bit. it has kind of evloved from there to carving small and larger chunks of wax. A word to the wise though have a place that you don't mind getting a bit waxy if you do this and do not do this over carpet, believe me there will be spills and wax chunks, I've ruined two rugs doing this. Mostly I just experiment with what works and what doesn't. let me know how it goes for you
-Meg
Very cool. I may have to give it a try. I think I really like the idea of the dripping wax onto a pinecone! That sounds like a great idea for Yule! :)
I would love to see some of your works
I am always happy to share my work, sorry about the picture quality
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very nice work. You should post more pics when you get them

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