Where to buy beeswax?

[peripatew]

I live in a large town, and its quite hippy-ish. So what types of stores would carry beeswax? Or would I need to order some? I'm wanting to make some different things with it, mainly fire type things.

Thanks!

 

[koyote]

tracy mickley at usa knifemaker supply. he's a BFer. About $2 a pound cheaper than local farmer's market and filtered nice and clean (which the local stuff ain't)

 

[Chosen-frozen]

You might be able tto get it at a muzzle loading and reenactors store called "Smoke and Fire" in Perrysburg Ohio, they have a website you could google and they`ve got a great catalog of stuff they send all over the world. Good prices and easy to work with.

You might also try any local places that sell handy crafts. They usually hase more beeswax candles than you can shake a stick at. they use them as decorations, so the price may be a bit higher, but you can buy as little as you need and melt it yourself.

 

[1_BIG_BUNKER]

What kind of fire type things do you want to make?

If you make a candle, mix in a little paraffin candle wax to lower the melting point just a little. If you use a wick from a tea candle, it has never produced enough heat to melt pure bees wax and the wick just burns up instead of burning melted wax.

Don't add to much or you keep the melting point low enough to where it can still make a mess in your kit in hot climates. What ever you do, make a few test burns. A friend of mine said he used a larger wick to produce more heat and the bees wax melted fine. I don't know.

These are some of the reasons I went to oil candles, plus I have oil to start a fire which is better than wax chunks on some wood.

I took a couple pictures, I stink at taking pictures, but you get the idea. You can see the candle I made burning itself out. I made one out of a 12ga base as I wanted a smaller candle, but even that did not work. It works for about 15 minutes and then starts to die FAST. So don't be fooled and fire it up in the house for a couple minutes and think you are good to go, because you are not. As the wick burns up, the less heat you have and the more the wax hardens, and the less melted fuel you have until the wick if gone.

Just look from when I fired these up and how little the wax melted, and how the flame died with almost no bees wax gone or melted. In any fire kit using bees wax, I would mix and test burn to completely to see how long it will last and if it will even work.

This is a regular tea candle to compare flame size.


This is my bees wax tea candle and 12ga base bees wax candle after about 10 minutes or so.


Here it is almost dead after about 15 minutes.

 

[Dannyboy Leather]

Order in bulk. It is SO MUCH cheaper.

I order about 20 - 25 pounds of beeswax (in brick form) a year for a variety of projects. My last order was placed with Southeast Texas Honey Company. http://www.texasdrone.com/beeswax.htm.

You can also try Peak Candle Supplies. http://www.peakcandle.com/category/waxes/Bees-Wax.aspx.

 

[cssims]

If you have a Michaels craft store they sell regular(yellow with that wonderful honey scent) or white beeswax. Also buy you a bit of paraffin and a boiler to use so you can make your own. I bought a cheap boiler from Target and used it to make a few candles. Michaels also sells other items to get you started in making candles.

 

[PB Wilson]

I had heard that a toilet ring/gasket is made from beeswax, but am not sure about it now. Take a stroll to your local hardware store and see what they have.

 

[stingray4540]

I had heard that a toilet ring/gasket is made from beeswax, but am not sure about it now. Take a stroll to your local hardware store and see what they have.

I contacted a toilet bowl ring maker a while ago, and they assured me that they did not use any beeswax in there rings. For what it's worth.


As someone already mentioned, Michaels craft store sells beeswax in the candle making section.

Any craft store that sells candle making products, should sell beeswax.

 

[C Bryant]

I have used these guys, reasonable prices. Cheaper than Michaels crafts.

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Wax-Works-Beeswax-Specialists_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsxQ3asstQQtZkm

 

[Diomedes Industries]

Also - do a simple google search for a local bee keeper. Many people are local - go buy some honey (helps with local allergies anyway) and see if they will sell you some wax - normally they are happy to sell it.

TF

 

[wintermute]

Hey, if your town is quite hippy-ish, try the hair places and the head shops - those types use it to sculpt their dreds.

 

[hollowdweller]

Damn hippies! They've gone rogue around here

By hollowdweller, shot with FinePix F410 at 2008-11-07

 

[j williams]

Oh MAN.

Great pic HD.

 

[Cougar Allen]

hippy-ish

Health food stores often have beeswax, or can order it.

 

[akennedy73]

Damn hippies! They've gone rogue around here

damn hippies have got damn fine axes!!

when are you going to post a review of that bad boy?

 

[mrjed]

Try a woodworking store. Lots of folks use it to make their own finishes. I think I got some online from Highland Hardware in ATL.

 

[plumberroy]

I usually pick up some any time we go to a renaissance fair

 

[Joezilla]

naked, Put some clothes on, then PM me

 

[sodak]

Joe, you just ain't right...

 

[plumberroy]

Joe you could send me about a quart of honey if you got any extra I'm fixin' to start another gallon of mead
Roy