CG> 6) Seal both wick ends of the candle with wax. This is important.
BH>How do you seal the ends of the candle before you start?
I dip each end in molten wax, several times, to build up a "head"
of wax. I can always break it off from the wick (lighting) end
later on.
BH>Do you make other different taper candles as well?  I would be
No, I don't make taper candles. 
Besides the two types of trees, I make ice-cube candles (fill a 
milk carton with a taper candle and ice-cubes, pour wax into the 
lot, allow the water to melt and drain away) and chunky candles 
(make blocks of coloured wax in ice-cube trays, load a milk 
carton with a tape candle and blue, green, red and yellow blocks, 
crammed tightly as possible, pour a matrix of clear wax around 
the lot. The coloured cubes stand out). 
 CG> different shades throughout the year and clarify them (q.v.)
BH>What do you mean by clarify the wax?
I clean the wax by melting it in a bowl which sits atop a pan of 
boiling water. In the bowl I have hot water, so the wax melts and 
floats on the hot water; solids drop to the bottom of the bowl, 
wicks float at the interface between the wax and the water. 
I turn off the heat and let it all solidify overnight, then drain 
off the water and the solids, and scrape the particles of wick 
and carbon from the base of the wax "plate". Bingo! Clean wax! 
 CG> I confess that after this last Christmas season was over, I wish
 CG> I'd approached several social organisers and asked them to save
BH>Did you get many scraps from your efforts?  Please let me know how it is
None at all, because I didn't ask!
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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