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Designing A Candle Holder
346 sats \ 4 comments \ @kr 1 Feb Design
Last month, I wrote about how I made hand-dipped beeswax candles.
Shortly after making my first batch, I realized I didn't have a candle holder. So I bought one on Amazon, but it's a cheap piece of junk. It's made of aluminum, it's spray painted black (minus a few spots they missed), it wobbles a lot, and it doesn't feel nice to hold.
So I set out to build a better candle holder. I made some 2D designs, reached out to some manufacturers with CNC lathes, and voila. This is one of the prototypes I'm testing, it's pretty close to the final design. Solid, compact, with a subtle tip-of-the-hat (shaped like a beehive) to the bees that make beeswax dinner candles possible.
It's made of solid brass, weighs ~150 grams, and is bottom-heavy for extra stability.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 1 Feb
Looking good
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 1 Feb
thanks!
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @supratic 23h
Where the extra wax will go when dripping down? on a wooden table, on a precios tablecloth?
For the type of candles you are making, I'd probably suggest something like this shapes. Something that can hodl extra wax and protect from wax and higher temperatures the surface behind.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 12h
Beeswax candles are generally drip-resistant. It's possible they can still produce dripped wax, but those candle holders are designed for the inevitable dripping that comes from paraffin wax.
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