Abstract: A candle is made by first positioning a core element centrally in an upwardly open candle mold with the element spaced from an inner wall surface of the mold and from a lower wall of the mold, then extending a thin rod up through the lower wall of the mold to a position at least at a lower end of the core element in the mold, and then filling the mold around the core element and rod with molten wax. This wax is then cooled and hardened around the core element and rod to a hard body and the core is withdrawn upward out of the hard body to leave a central cavity in the body. The hard body is pushed up out of the mold and off the thin rod to leave in a lower end of the body where the rod was a passage extending to the central cavity. Finally a wick is fitted to the cavity and passage and the cavity is filled around the wick with wax. This last step can be carried out by fitting to the cavity a small-diameter hard body of wax itself molded around the wick.

Abstract: A candle has an elongated wax body formed around a wick and having a tip from which the wick projects and which is formed with a shoulder. The candle is oriented upside down with the tip from which the wick projects directed downward and heat is projected against a surface of the tip to melt wax on the surface of the tip such that the melted wax runs down and drips off the candle tip and wick projecting therefrom. Heat is projected against the tip by directing a hot-air jet against the tip. Alternately this can be done by projecting infrared radiation against the tip. To achieve the most attractive results the candle is rotated about a central longitudinal candle axis while projecting heat against its tip.