From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V5 #62 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, March 7 2001 Volume 05 : Number 062 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. Re: [scribes]: wax seal question [scribes]: Scribal Webring Re: [scribes]: wax seal question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:18:28 +0000 From: "Jackie E. Burns" Subject: Re: [scribes]: wax seal question > >>The wax that we used came in rods. To melt it I would light a >candle, position the end of the rod of sealing wax above the area >where I wanted the seal to be and place the flame of the candle >underneath the rod. The flame melts the sealing wax which would then >drip onto the paper (plus any dripping wax from the candle would also >drip onto the same spot). Speed is of the essence because once you >got the approx. amount of sealing wax that you felt you needed, you >then had to pick up the seal and squidge it firmly onto the wax >before the wax started to harden - which it did rapidly.<< > >The wax we use also comes in rods, so it's probably the same stuff. I >don't know if it was dedicated sealing wax or not - I think Eowyn mentioned >once that it was jeweler's wax (for lost wax casting). I was under the impression that the wax used for lost wax casting had to be pliable enough to model. The wax rods I used to use was anything but pliable. Totally hard. >But the problem of >using the method you describe, at least for Caid's seals, is that the seals >are too large to melt enough wax with a candle. Our kingdom seal is about >2 inches in diameter - the wax would harden long before we got enough >melted to make an entire seal. That's why we use the ladle, so we can melt >enough wax all at once. I would think that the candle wax would also >interfere with a clean seal since candle wax is a lot softer than sealing >wax, but I've never tried it that way. > >My brother-in-law is a jeweler, and does a lot of lost wax casting (most of >his pieces use this in fact). He has a nifty little wax heater that has a >chamber about 4 inches square with a built in heating element, and a pump >top. When he needs wax, he just turns on the heater and a few minutes >later can pump wax out of it. Pretty slick, but probably more than we need >for seals. > >Tetchubah Wow! I can now understand that the method I suggested would be completely useless for most kingdom seals. That heater your brother-in-law uses sounds very nifty. Jackie =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 07:50:21 EST From: KMcWhyte@aol.com Subject: [scribes]: Scribal Webring Hi all. Just wanted to let those of you who don't know about it yet that I made a webring on Yahoo! (which took over www.webring.org) for individual scribe webpages. Anyone interested in adding their scribing site to the ring can go to: http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=thescascribesweb Thanks. - --Kayleigh =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:21:28 -0000 From: "Russell mahee of acre" Subject: Re: [scribes]: wax seal question Someone stated on this list a year or so ago that in Sweden or one of those countries they have a gaggit they use to put seals on things. It heats the wax and then you pull a trigger or something and the wax just makes a reasonably perfect circle to which to appy the seal. Sounds like we need to contact our people over there and have them send us a box load of these gaggits. your servant, mahee _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V5 #62 ****************************