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Wax carving

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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Permalink Reply by Rev Michelle on August 21, 2009 at 1:10pm

I've not tried it myself but I've seen alot of gorgeous work done by others.

Permalink Reply by Michael on August 22, 2009 at 7:49pm

So what all do you carve?

Permalink Reply by Meg Chadsey on August 23, 2009 at 3:36am

I have a couple of ongoing projects but I refer wax flowers

Permalink Reply by Michael on August 25, 2009 at 10:59pm

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.

Permalink Reply by Meg Chadsey on August 26, 2009 at 5:23am

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

Permalink Reply by Michael on August 26, 2009 at 11:18am

Sounds good, I'm just getting back to college myself. Ill get back to you in October with a few sketches.

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Surdam on September 12, 2009 at 5:32pm

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 :)

Permalink Reply by Meg Chadsey on September 12, 2009 at 5:47pm

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

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Surdam on September 12, 2009 at 6:26pm

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! :)

Permalink Reply by TygrzByte on September 30, 2009 at 10:54am