Nov. 29, 2025

I've been wanting to make my own candlesticks, since I've been into candlesticks over glass jar candles, because they burn more efficiently. With the glass jar you get so much left over wax, which is why I have such a large stash of leftover wax I don't want to through away.

I researched how to do dipped candlesticks. So you get a long strand of cotton wix, long enough for two sticks. You put a small weight on each end to weigh down the string to make sure the stick is nice a straight. Then you start dipped it into the melted wax. With each dip, a thin layer of wax latches one. You need to dip like 30-50 times until you get to the thickness you want. Seems simple enough.

The trick is in the tools. So you need a wax container that is at least as tall as you want your candles to be, so quite tall. And narrow enough that you don't need to melt a ridiculous amount of wax to get it to a good height. The height of the melted wax is key to get nice long candles. Then you need to be aware that with each dip, the wax pot is reducing in volume, so you need to keep adding wax as you go to maintain the level.

The other consideration is to speed up the process between dips, you want a pot of cold water to dip the wax candles into between wax dips. Then the wax on the candle can solidify quicker and is ready to pick up a new layer on the next dip. If you don't do this, the melted pot wax won't want to stick onto the dipped candles.

So it's a bit of an art. These brown candles were by second attempt, where I used the cold water method, so I got my candles to be much thicker. However I don't have the height yet, so they turned out to be quite short and stubby.

I haven't had a chance to try burning them yet, and they're aren't very pretty because of the brown colour, but I think it's an important on the first attempt and I'll try again soon.

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