The wax seal stamps

The start of two wax seal stamps, their desired look carved from a soft candle wax to begin with.

For business and sigilling

Two circular pieces of wax on a table over a piece of cardstock, along with a carved wooden dowel and metal tin filled with clear candle wax shavings. One of the pieces of wax has been shaved down to about 5 millimeters thick, and the other is still just wax poured into a tube made from painter's tape around a coin.

Well, after my move to England, I started to put my shop back together. Being as it's going in a far more magical direction now, after making a potion scroll to transport my magic potions to and from faires and events, we wax-sealed all of the potions at long last, which brought to mind... I need a new wax seal stamp as well, because why not. I'd previously carved them, but the grain of the wood made those straight-up unsuitable for the task. So looking around online, it was mentioned that two-part epoxy is often used to make wax seal stamps! So hey, that could work, our good friend JB Weld to the rescue again!

Now, I'd debated whether to try carving into a block of JB Weld, or how to carve the reverse in silicone or something, then put wax in there, then JB Weld over the wax, and quickly settled on just carving what I wanted the seal to look like out of wax, then putting JB Weld over that, and melting the wax out. So we meticulously (as we could) carved little circular disks of wax to look like how I want the seal to come out after stamping, and coated them in JB Weld. I figure that since I'm no longer using the name Thingies and Stuff, and the wood grain made that stick like mad to the wax (and also wasn't smooth), I could use the old wooden dowel as the main handle to attach the epoxy stamps to.

More to come once the JB Weld dries.

Completed April xx, 2025