Making A Candle With A Silicone Rubber Mold
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2024
- This is my first try at making a candle by casting wax into a silicone rubber mold.
Candle wax shrinks a lot more than most other casting materials like resins or plasters. Along with a smaller finished casting you also get a significant loss of detail. Candles should be designed with this in mind to minimize the problem.
Thanks to Noura for sending in this project.
Check out her work at Edonistastudio on Instagram.
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TIME STAMPS
00:00 Casting a candle.
00:36 Testing the rubber for cure inhibition.
01:08 Building the mold case.
04:46 Pre-painting areas of the mold with rubber to prevent bubbles.
06:05 Sealing the mold case and installing the model.
10:40 Building a funnel to make pouring the rubber easier.
12:32 Pouring silicone rubber in the mold.
14:54 Removing the rubber from the case and cutting open the mold.
19:59 Installing the wick in the candle mold.
21:08 Pouring the melted wax into the mold. It must cool for 24 hours.
23:17 Opening the mold and extracting the candle.
25:03 How did we do? Inspecting the casting for flaws.
25:40 Fixing bubbles with a wax pen.
27:26 Admiring the perfect parting lines!
28:12 Candle wax is not a very good casting media, Shrinkage and loss of detail.
28:41 Hit that like button and thanks for watching! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
So nice to see an older youtuber sharing their experience and skills! 💗
FYI-"older" people have a lot more knowledge than younger ones.
The Bob Ross of the waxing world. What an adorable human being ✨
He’s my favorite ❤
I called the wax supply house, and asked if they carried: "Magnificent, Beautiful, Sticky Wax"; the length of the pause from their end of the phone was hysterically uncomfortable. LOL!!!
Sometimes you get some ignoramus on the phone who fails to appreciate the splendors of sticky wax! 😄
Aren’t you glad she didn’t send you Medusa 😂 still over all it came out pretty good!
I love Medusa! ❤
regarding the calculation of wax for the sculpture, you can calculate the volume of wax needed easily by water displacement.
fill a container to the absolute brim with water, put it in another container that can catch overflow. then put in your object. make sure it's completely covered by water. the water that overflows into the outer container is the exact volume of the object. you can then use that volume to measure out a different liquid, in this case, wax.
A tip for the wick Robert, dip it in the hot wax and hang it to dry before you fix it in the mould, it makes it much simpler and becomes self-supporting. You also get an actual "wick" not a "piece of string" when you de-mould it.
Great idea!
To avoid bubbles you could carfully slushcast the first part to make sure all of the holes and pockets are filled after which you fill up the remainder of the model.
I'm in my sixth year of teaching. I normally do EMT classes, but have gotten myself into prosthetics now. I am being trained in a lot of different fields that encompass this area of Medical technology. One of the fields, and the one I am most interested in, is creating synthetic skin using lifelike silicone. I love this channel already and I am going to watch everything you have! Thank you!
Thanks for watching Tyler!
Michelangelo starting David at 26 may kill you, but seeing you making such interesting things at an age older than me gives me hope for what my future might look like someday too. Love the channel, love all your vids. Thanks for what you do!
Old artists never retire; they just die in their studios and hope somebody notices!
@@RobertTolone I love that quote!
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Thanks for teaching me how to make a candle dad !
I love it! 😍
I’m going to try using my molds to make a candle.
I love how you MacGyver little obstacle that come your way.
Great video!
Haha, thanks Henry!
Pro Tip @14:24 Knowing what i thought i knew...I would have over looked that. I learned something new.
Thanks Robert. Perfect timing, I am making a David mould for a candle maker client next week, sculpture arrived this afternoon. Today's video will save me plenty of time. Thank you. Best Regards Jez
We’re living in parallel universes Jez.
Wow, you are truly amazing. The tutorial was perfect, the best I've seen. I was just excited as you. Thanks for making my day!
Excellent video. Good film quality with good light, nice closeups and good overall video timing
I want a mold like that!!!! I’ve been wanting to make candles of that exactly but bigger
Nice cast! Love this vid. Wonderful make
Nice to see that even you do something completely new sometimes, that you've never done before. :-D
That was thoroughly enjoyable to watch. Very succinct and Robert I could listen to you all day.
Great show! Thanks!
Came out amazing Dora got a amazing eye sight thank you guys for this video!!
Another great video!
This is the best molding and casting channel I found and if you were here on youtube years ago, I would avoid many mistakes and save so much time. Thank you for teaching us. Watching your results, I will now be cutting molds as first option from now.
Sir, you deserve my sub. I am very delighted to see an older gentleman in the workshop enjoying interesting projects while sharing his knowledge and experience.
He has a great sense of humor. I really enjoy watching his work.
so neat! thanks for sharing
I watched to see if making my own molds for candle making was feasible, so obviously I've never made a mild before. I've bought plenty of pre-made molds and the advice for wax is always to slightly pre-heat the mold. Hope that helps ❤. Thank you for this video even if you only rated your end product a B-😊!
I have cast toy dog heads in wax for a project in art school. To get out some of the voids out i poured out the hot wax after it coated the inner surface. Then filled after the inner core cooled.
Thank you so much for you amazing videos!
This was fantastic.
Robert I loved watching this. Great information. I want to make candle molds and you definitely inspire me.
it's great to see you Robert!! As always it's another great tutorial!!!
Thanks Melo!
Really neat! I have been wanting to make my wife some candles that smell really good like this. Can't wait to try this method.
Great mold and video, very thorough. A couple of tips for you, which you're probably already aware of; A cheap (ebay) pair of medical retractors act as a second pair of hands when cutting open the mould - helpful when scalpels are close to fingers. Soft clay in a syringe with the needle removed creates great spaghetti like 'worms' to seal around mold bases. Cheers Robert.
I’m really enjoying all your videos informative educational and all-around excellent thank you so much
Fanito! You had me at that!
I'm new to stuff like this. and you did well😄.
I hope you always healthy❤️❤️
You’re the best man! The absolute best
Im ordering some wax right now! This looks like a fun weekend project. Great video as always
Let us know how it turns out!
Great teacher! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
No matter how old we get it is always good to learn something new. Doc BC
Bob and Dave. Wonderful combination. Thank you.
Dammit! I could have titled the video Bob and Dave’s Big Adventure!
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Fantastic video . I plan to cast some 1/25 wheel set. This was extremely helpful.
Wonderful! Thank you.
Thanks Paul!
I was just introduced to the channel a few days ago… I’ve been watching a lot of them since… i love the information and how you deliver it. I’m curious about approaching a mold of a reverse light housing for an old car.. would love your input. Thanks for the channel
Mannnn I can't even right now! ♥️😆🤗 I decided to watch 3 hrs of mold making on TH-cam (because well why not at 3am with insomnia lol). Not only did you make me smile, laugh and learn you added alot of love to your tutorials. ♥️ A breath of fresh air if I must say! Thank you for helping me get over my frustration with mold making! Next... Must learn how to make molds for earring tunnels and earring plugs! ♥️Thank you Sir and keep doing what you're doing!
Glad you like my videos; thanks for the nice comment!
Nice result Robert and not a shred of 'duct tape' to be seen. Cheers!
your channel is so wonderful thank you for sharing knowledge for artists like me who want to do mold making! Your tips and tricks save us lots of wasted rubber!
So glad you find the channel useful! Thanks.
Great Work Robert! Mostly I do CAD modeling, 3D printing, and blow/injection molding models, but you have really influenced me to want to try silicone casting!
Give it a try! It’s a lot of fun. Thanks for watching my videos.
Is it alright to not vacuum seal while curing?
You got new subscriber!. I enjoyed a lot how do you managed to make it works, and you are sharing your experience so naturally, congratulations. Here a cuban guy learning from you :D
Very cute and informative video, thanks a lot for sharing 🥰🥰
Impressive!
You are a master in your craft !!!
Only if a master is someone who never stops trying to learn and improve.
Well of course!! I enjoy ( so much) watching you tackle new projects and using different crafting materials. It is such a pleasure to watch your videos and they are SO helpful as well. Thank you!!
Belethor's goods anyone? Some may call this junk, me I call them treasures.
Awesome video. Really informative. The wax is such a good idea.
I have learnt a lot from your videos and am about to embark on my first silicone mold of a metal skull gear stick knob ...wish me luck
Take a shot every time he says "catch a bubble" 😂 great video, mate! 👍
How cool is that ✅
Man you are such a cool dude I love your videos.
Hey, thanks for watching!
This is and you are awesome, I'm subscribing. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and subbing!
That was a fun watch, thanks Robert!
I've got a book called Pop Sculpture about making figurines and collectibles, and they use wax castings during the refinement process. The way they avoid shrinkage, distortion, and loss of detail is preheating the mold in the microwave as well as doing pressure casting. This necessitates a small reservoir of extra wax to fill in as the shrink occurs, like a larger pour funnel integrated into the mold. They also use crayons (white + desired color) in the wax batch to pigment the sculpture's surface and get it more visible, but I'm not sure if those pigments are safe to burn in a candle.
Yes, a reservoir is a good idea. I often rough out a sculpt in clay then re-cast it in sculpting wax to do the final work. In those cases I make the clay sculpture 8 to 10% oversized and place it on a reservoir base. Of course, I am casting it in sculpting wax which has a lot of solids. That reduces the amount of shrink and preserves the detail. I pressure cast it to remove bubbles and also heat the mold so that the wax doesn’t cool while it is being poured into the mold. Still, it shrinks enough to be noticeable.
Bravo, that sure was something new. I tried wax casting and found that controling the right pour temprature can be a problem.
I think that moderate heating of the mold does help in some ways. Still amazing to see what some folk artists can do with this medium. Wax has been used as a casting compound producing religious folk articles (figurines, angels etc.) for ages. As I understand there are a lot of old secret formulars and ingrediants around, kept secret outside the family. If you make it to Germany, Bavaria is a good place to look around for wax art. Makes one speechless to see what castings once where (and still are) mass produced without the aid of a pressure pot etc. I think pressure wasn´t even in this world than ....
Great Show as usual - looking forward to next friday.
My father would make sealed molds by pouring another thin layer around the seal, and have them suspended in boiling water. One wick hole filled tight, you can let the wax settle without melting immediately. Then you you can easily tear it back open.
Turn off the hot water, walk away. He made a lot of
Nice to see a simple cut mould . When you held up the original and the casting , even before you said it I could see the shrinkage . Thanks for something different. Hope you're well mate .
All is well Glen. Thanks.
this infomration is so useful. thank you very much!
You are the Bob Ross of casting
great video
Thanks Rob.
You're amazing !! Love it.
Please I would love to know all the product to use. 🇨🇦😁
Nice Video!
all ways fun to watch ur video sr 😃👍
Thanks Julio!
That shrinkage tho. wow. did not expect that.
I expected worse. I've made candles and there is ussually a deep divot down the center and once fill it it has its own divot. You do it a few times.
Lots of regular like votive candles are compressed sort of powdered wax.
@@chartle1 I have a silicone mold and poured lead into it.(yes 360°c Hot)
I also made a pour with gipsum/cement. Guess which one is bigger!
Experimente encher este molde com resina cristal, ficará maravilhoso também.
Super cool! Do you use wax because it's sustainable? Can you actually reuse the waxed boards and cardboard you coat or do you discard them?
Very nice explan
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I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It was intertaining, suspenful :-), and funny. Oh! and I learned stuff :-)
Glad you enjoyed it Sara!
Interesting to see wax used for casting, I am not sure about Noura’s choice of David, I think Michael Jackson or Joan of Arc would’ve been good subjects for Candle making.
Very interesting. Looks like the casting is a thinner, angrier distant cousin to David, probably because he isn’t quite as famous. The loss of detail was a big surprise.
Dave’s cousin Larry. Bitter and jealous of his handsome famous cousin!
I like it,sankyoo
Did you make a hole for the wick in the mold?
I wonder if there would be a way to 3D print the object with more volume than intended so that when the wax shrinks it ends up with the proper proportion and detail. Like an embroidery machine, when creating a digital design you have to overcompensate the size and stretch the image to account for the shrinkage that happens when stitching tightens the material during embroidery and shrinks the image
Robert, I follow your channel and your tips have helped me make better castings. I make mostly resin cast bits and pieces for classic car restorations for parts that are no longer available. Resins that cure very hard are brittle when the casting is thin. Have you ever added milled glass fiber to resin to increase the strength of parts? Thanks, Ben
I have experimented with various additives to modify the resin characteristics. Usually the only difficulty is they can make the resin less viscous and more difficult to pour. I always follow the manufacturers instructions as to the maximum amount of material that can be added to the resin.
Another great video Robert, having a warm mold helps when candle making. Im guessing you made a hole to pull the wick through the top?
The proper technique is to use a wick needle and just poke a hole and pull the wick through. I don’t have a wick needle, so I cut the parting line to the top of the head and just secured the wick between the halves of the mold.
@@RobertTolone Hi Robert, watch you a lot. Great stuff. I made a candle mould for a client and created the wick hole with just a thin wire pushed through the top of the mould after curing. Use the same wire with a looped end to insert the wick. The silicon just closes and holds the wick in place.
Yep
Love all the tips and tricks provided, sometimes I just play a video in the background to hear his voice
Would setting the mold in an ultrasonic be able to vibrate the bubbles to the surface?
Can one use a hair dryer on hot instead of the heat gun?
Hi Robert, thank you so much for these videos!! They’re soo helpful and the way you explain things is super easy to understand! I have a question, can I use a candle as the figurine to cast a mould?
Sure, wax is an excellent material to pull molds from. Having said that, test your molding rubber with the kind of wax in your candle. But if it is paraffin or beeswax you should be fine
Love this dude! Doesn't he sound like Red Green?
Does the first paint job of rubber have any issues adhering to your pour of rubber afterwards? I know silicone sticks to silicone.
Love your videos Robert. How come you didn't just put the 2 carboard parts back together as a mold case for pouring? Are the several rubber bands on the rubber better than encasing it back in that cardboard tube shell? Thanks!
It’s usually a pain to get the mold back into the case that formed it and also it obscures my view of the parting line. I like to be able to see the parting line and make sure that it is correctly aligned as I put on the rubber bands. And finally, it’s an extra step that is not necessary.
Great result Robert. I wonder....if you put the molten wax under pressure to shrink bubbles, would they then suddenly release/expand as the candle burns?
I don’t thinks so but I’ve never tried it!
Thanks ,Thanks , Thanks for your Videos and your helping nature I am very glad after see the videos I love it
Again Thanks Thanks Thanks WITH REGARDS.
Hey! I’m trying to cast an 8 inch pleaser stiletto and running into some issues with the straps ! Any tips ???
When you get ready to use the mold would it help to reuse the cardboard edges held in place with the rubber bands? I think that would help prevent shape distortions.
I don’t like to use the mold case under the rubber bands because it prevents me from seeing the parting lines. I like to see the lines so I can adjust them and make sure they’re tight. If the rubber bands are applied properly they should not distort the mold.
Waxtastic.
Question; If you placed the original upside down-wouldn't that (mostly) eliminate potential bubbles?
Robert could using a surfactant to help aid surface tension and cut down the bubbles? If yes what would you use? Also would warming the mold up help when pouring hot material?
I don’t know of any surfactant that would help and I am always leery of extra materials in the process. When casting wax it is very helpful to warm the mold.
Would you tell,Where can I get the waxer? Thanks
Hi Robert! You mention the wick being in the cut line (the top part of the wick that exited the mould), did you cut a hole for the exit of the wick? Or did you seal it with wax? Thanks
I just put the wick in the cut line with a half inch or so sticking out and closed the rubber around it. This held the wick in place and left a small gap in the rubber around the wick but the wax only leaked out a tiny amount when I poured it.
@@RobertTolone thanks Robert! Love all your videos, so so helpful :)