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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 803721, member: 360"]I think they would've scooped out the molten wax with a little ladle or spoon-type device, and poured it onto the paper/page/envelope or other document, and then sealed it with a seal. </p><p><br /></p><p>After heating it through for 2 hours, it got soft, but not liquid-soft. I'm gonna have to figure out a better way of doing this. One of the problems is that this is SEALING WAX - which means it's VERY different to candle-wax, which makes handling it very difficult...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 803721, member: 360"]I think they would've scooped out the molten wax with a little ladle or spoon-type device, and poured it onto the paper/page/envelope or other document, and then sealed it with a seal. After heating it through for 2 hours, it got soft, but not liquid-soft. I'm gonna have to figure out a better way of doing this. One of the problems is that this is SEALING WAX - which means it's VERY different to candle-wax, which makes handling it very difficult...[/QUOTE]
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