IMPORTANT
NOTE ON THE COPYCATS!
It looks simple.
Drill holes in a rock, glue on a bowl.
It looks like
something anyone can make, and alot of 'anyones' have
entered this market.
These 'anyones'
are kitchen-counter craftsmen that make many bad or even
dangerous choices in constructing their knockoffs. Among
them are:
They glue
their glass containers to the rocks with bathtub caulk.
Slate and shale are porous. These rocks soak up oil,
the oil will travel under the caulk, and the bowl WILL
FALL OFF !!! Imagine cleaning oil off of your carpet,
furniture, and clothing!
Others seal
the entire rock with urethane or Thompsons™, which
does look good when new. But after just a few uses,
the heat of the flame chars these chemicals to make
ugly brown rings around the wicks.
They like
to use cheap cotton wicks, which burn down with the
oil. We use fiberglass wicks, which never wear out!
Only the bottom
of our rocks are sealed with a penetrating sealer,
and then a layer of epoxy underneath only, where
it is needed. Read this again... a layer of sealant, a
layer epoxy, and only where needed to seal and strengthen
the product!
If you lay
a flat rock on a bowl, the lip of the bowl will make contact
with the rock in only three places. Any weight on the
rock will tend to make the glass bowl want to bend from
those three tiny points of contact.... and glass does
not bend very well! Our bowls are both attached with,
AND sealed with, MORE epoxy.
Our use of
solid, rigid epoxy distributes weight, stress, and droppage
to MORE THAN 3 POINTS along the rim of the bowl! The ENTIRE
RIM takes the weight and pressure. It is also this impermeable
epoxy that seals the oil in the bowl, not caulk.
Then
a cosmetic layer of clear silicon is applied around the
outside, just to make it look nice!
Candlerocks.com
is based upon my 12 years as a professional architectural
sculptor, and they involve much more work than any of
the other "flaming rock" knockoffs and wannabes
on the market today.
Anyone can
drill holes in rocks, but as with anything "simple"
there is much more involved....
