Seeking originality and design freedom I turned my wild idea of using a woodlathe to turn large pillar candles in to uniquely designed, functional beeswax candles.
Every candle has been poured into alarge custom made mould and is then hand turned into the designed shape which takes a minimum of 45 minutes each.
Given that all these candles areproduced using a lathe they have imperfections. The base of the candles have a hole where the lathe attaches producing a hole around 2-4cm deep. Some wicks can be slightly off centre due to the spinning and movement ofthe machine and the tops of thecandles can have a rough finish to them.
W7.5cm x H30cm
Burning instructions.
These candles have been designed to be burnt for long periods of time with aminimum burn of 3 hours at a time. Given the width of some of thesecandles they must burn for a long timeto develop a wide melting pool to prevent tunneling.
The wick must also be snapped shorter before every burn and if burning for along time and the flame becomes smoky please dip the wick intothe melted wax to extinguish, then straighten it back up, then relight.