candle cups

Craft Supplies in the UK sell them in various sizes

Bob, I didn't see the article and candle holder inserts you mentioned but you might visit:

and look at candle parts. BTW, you might like to make a combination candlestick and bud vase. Drill a 7/8 hole about 1" deep for a brass insert and candle. Then engthen the hole about 7/16" X 4 " for a bud stem. HTH. Hokie idea? Probably. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

Bob, you might take a look at the site below and see if anything is what you are looking for. Good people to deal with.

.....moving right along with another hokie combination: lengthen the

7/8" hole to about 4" to hold a candle or a test tube. Or..... make the candlestick the way _you intended to in the first place. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

I got some of these. They work well.

This question just came up on another forum, here's what they suggested:

has two styles item # 432-3100 item # 041-0444 Good luck and Happy Holidays!

Cheapest and easiest source are plumbing fittings. The plain end-feed solder end caps for 22mm pipe are just right as candle cups.

I just bought 100 brass candle inserts made specifically for the purpose from the source I suggested for $7.00 /100. First class postage and quick courteous service was $4.99. Twelve cents each isn't bad.

Candlesticks are quick and easy to turn and lend themselves to making attractive forms. I don't want to kick a dead horse about product liability, but does anyone worldwide, know _personally of an _actual lawsuit against a turner re candlesticks? I realize there could be one tomorrow, but was there one yesterday?

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

I used to work for a candle company, and every box of candles had a disclaimer on it. I suppose you could sell/present them as "for decorative purposes only" or some such nonsense. Then, too, there's the problem of wax dripping down on the wood so "for decoration only" might not be such a bad idea. I made a few, and a nice oak candlestick with a red candle sticking out of a bunch of evergreen boughs makes for a very attractive Christmas/Holiday (inserted for PC purposes) arrangement.

Hi Bob, chilly in Portland today?

Was the company or its dealers ever sued? Actually, I've turned some wooden tapers to put in my candlesticks. A little hokie perhaps, but bleached or dyed red or green they aren't too bad for promoting happiness during the holidays or add to the celebration of Christmas.

Speaking of disclaimers and the need to be PC. Remember the disclaimer on those 50 cent products dispensed in public men's rooms? The ones that said "Sold only for the prevention of disease." Today those products are displayed in living color at my grocery store. Time marches on and the pendulum swings. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

I remember being 16 and knowing all the johns that had the machines. :o)

Time was you went into a drugstore, loudly asked for a pack of Luckies and whispered your desire for a pack of "rubbers" when the clerk was close enough.

Now it's the reverse.

They always modified the disclaimer on machines around my area "Sold for the (pr)event(ion) of (dis)ease only." Parentheticals removed.

And thank God for the self-checkouts. ;)

It's a bit brisk. I think it was 14° when I got up. Almost time to stop wearing shorts.

Not that I know of... but it only takes one time to ruin your whole day.

So to speak. hahahahaah Tell me that was an intentional analogy!

Now that's a damned good idea! I worked a festival this Summer and was selling wooden candle sconces (not turned). In the heat of August my taller display candles were suffering from wax-wilt and didn't look at their best.

Recently have been wondering how stupid this politically correct nonsense will get. Has nothing to do with a lack of respect for anyone, simply a realistic approach to the calendar. If it's Christmas then Merry Christmas, etc., etc.

There are so many examples of this PC crap. I say it so strongly because the pendulum has swung to such an extreme, i.e. stuff like talking of teaching, labeling, and signage in two languages. Why don't we also then have Chinese, German, Italian, etc., etc.?? Where do we stop without causing the next immigrant to go out of their way to learn the appropriate language. This is an English speaking country. If you want to be here, speak English just like all the other immigrants who passed through Ellis Island or such. Or like you'd have to do if you went to......

This topic can go on and on with branches to all kinds of places. Just happens that the Christmas thing is the latest nonsense.

For anyone into NASCAR I find the sterlization of that atmosphere and behavior to be an example. In the "old days" there were real characters and they often said what they were thinking pretty bluntly - even colorfully. Nowadays they bust the chops of a Dale Earnhardt Jr. for saying less than a PG rated movie says.

Sorta like a buffet table with a selection of bland, BLAND, more Bland or still BlanD:)

Merry Christmas with regards to all TomNie

======================= I remember when they said if you won a stock car race you'd better be ready to fight the driver you beat; if you won a drag race, you'd better be ready to fight the driver AND his girl friend! They built racers with more character then. (:-)

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

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