Bought some new zinc-cored wick the other day as I’m fed up with having to soak wicks in melted beeswax before I can use it with beeswax tealights or votives. Seeing it on the site where I normally buy all of my beeswax and wick, I thought I’d found my holy grail and I ordered 5 metres of the appropriate size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
When it arrived a few days later, I began to have doubts. It looked way<\/strong> too thin for a 1.5 to 1.27 inch wide candle but I figured I’d try it anyway. Good job I only tried a single tealight. The wick is too small…<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m going to have one last try and buy the thickest zinc cored wick they have (suitable for 2.5 – 3 inch candle) in the hopes that the sizes they quote are based on paraffin wax. In the meantime, I have almost 5 meters of wick to add to my mounting stockpile of ‘wicks wot I have tried’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the plus side, I did also manage to make two beautiful chunk candles today – one small rectangular and the other a standard cylinder 1.5 inches wide x 8inches tall. It’s just a shame that I seem to be the only person who appreciates them. R’s response on being proudly shown these two new specimens was distinctly underwhelming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bought some new zinc-cored wick the other day as I’m fed up with having to soak wicks in melted beeswax before I can use it with beeswax tealights or votives. Seeing it on the site where I normally buy all of my beeswax and wick, I thought I’d found my holy grail and I ordered 5 metres of the appropriate size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[66,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}