The picture below is out of focus, but it is a picture of my hand, using a toothpick to pop any bubbles in the wax block that rise to the surface in the early part of cooling.
After about 30 minutes the block looks like this. I leave it until the water around it is cold and the block has no heat rising from it. Usually that takes all day or over night, depending on when I pour it.
Tonight here's the finished product. I'm almost happy with it. There's a white mark on one side and if it doesn't polish out, I'll be pouring this again!
Hello Linda,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful block you have there. I was wondering how you strain your wax? I'm having much trouble with fine hive particles.
I put my wax from the hive into the solar wax melter that I made from a Styrofoam cooler - directions are on the blog sidebar. It filters out everything and the wax is clean and gorgeous for such things as making a block or candles.
ReplyDeleteLinda, Thank you. I appreciate your bee blog. There's good practical stuff here. I started with bees in March & consider your blog a reference. Thanks.
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