◆ Candle wax
David lips cube candle mold
A 70 mm cube candle carrying the mouth of Michelangelo's David, from a museum scan. A rigid two-part print, no silicone.
◆ Candle wax
A 70 mm cube candle carrying the mouth of Michelangelo's David, from a museum scan. A rigid two-part print, no silicone.
A cube candle 70 mm on every side, its edges rounded to 5 mm, with the mouth of Michelangelo's David rising out of the front face, from the base of the nose down to the crease above the chin, 60 mm across. The calm, slightly parted lips are the detail people know from the statue, on a candle that stands square.
The relief is not a remodel. It is cut from SMK's 3D scan of a plaster cast of the Head of David (object KAS2232 in the Royal Cast Collection of the National Gallery of Denmark), which SMK publishes under the Public Domain Mark, so you can sell what you cast.
The mold is exactly what our two-part candle mold generator builds for it: two rigid halves with rubber-band grooves, pry pockets and a pour funnel on top. The lips rise out of a flat face that pulls straight away from the front half, so they come out as sculpted, and the tool's own seam check finds nothing stuck. No silicone needed.
A classical, Renaissance piece for a shelf or a bathroom. Pour it in white, blush or sand, and set it next to the David eye cube as a pair. The zip carries both halves, the cube master as its own STL, the tool's own print-settings sheet and a recipe file for the generator.
Shown as a 3D render of the printed mold halves pulled apart around the candle they cast, not a photo.
Print both halves as exported. Clamp-strength settings: 4 walls, 40% gyroid infill, no supports.
Drop a tabbed wick into one half so the tab sits on the cavity floor, close the halves and band them along the whole seam.
Clip the wick centred across the pour funnel and pour at 65 to 75 C.
Once the first pour is firm but still warm, top up the funnel. Wax shrinks, and the second pour fills the dip.
Cool fully, then open the halves at the pry pockets. The mouth comes out of the front half. Trim the wick and buff the seam round the sides with a nylon stocking.
Print details
| Cast material | Candle wax |
|---|---|
| Printed parts | 2 |
| Size (W x D x H) | 91 x 91 x 91 mm |
| Print bed needed | 91 x 47 mm, 91 mm tall |
| Filament | ~263 g |
| Layer height | 0.2 mm |
| Infill | 40% |
| Supports | Not needed |
| Download | ZIP: 2 printed parts (STL) + candle master (STL) + print sheet + recipe |
| Added | 2026-10-01 |
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Both are the same 70 mm cube from the same museum scan of the Head of David. The eye cube carries the brows, both eyes and the top of the nose, 66 mm across; the lips cube carries the mouth from the nose base to the chin crease, 60 mm across. They are made to stand side by side.
Yes. The relief comes from SMK's scan of a plaster cast of the Head of David, which the National Gallery of Denmark publishes under the Public Domain Mark. The mold is yours to print, and what you cast in it is yours to sell.
A hard pillar wax or a paraffin blend, about 299 g per candle, poured at the low end of 65 to 75 C so the corners of the mouth stay sharp. Soft container soy dents and sticks to a printed mold; for soy, pick a pillar blend and print the halves in PETG.
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