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Pine cone candle mold

An 87 mm pine cone candle with 120 overlapping scales, as a silicone mold from a printed shell.

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3D render of the pine cone master with its spiral of scales fused on its printed charcoal base, between the orange and blue hugging shell halves
Candle wax ~259 g

A pine cone candle 87 mm tall and 67 mm across: 120 woody scales laid on the golden-angle spiral a real cone grows in, each tipped outward and down, small at the foot and the tip and biggest round the middle.

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Made with the hugging-shell mode of our silicone mold maker. Every scale overhangs the one below it, which only a flexible mold can release, so print the base with the cone fused onto it and the two shell halves, pour about 243 ml of silicone, and cast in the mold that comes out.

A winter candle for a mantelpiece, an advent wreath or a Christmas market table. Pour it in cream or brown and dust the scale tips with gold or white mica for a snowy look. The zip carries every printed part, the pine cone 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 parts pulled apart around the master, not a photo.

Pine cone candle mold at a glance: every printed part with its size, print time, filament, print settings and the three steps to use it
How this mold works

What you need

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  • About 270 ml of silicone (mix it in one batch)
  • About 160 g of pillar wax per candle: each cast is 178 ml
  • Steel binder clips, tape or a hot glue gun
  • A primed wick about 110 mm long, and mica for the scale tips

How to cast it

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  1. Print the base, which has the master already fused onto it, the two shell halves and the six clamps (all six are in clamps.stl). No supports.

  2. Stand the shell halves on the base around the master and push the six printed clamps over the seams. Steel binder clips work too, the seats for them are built into the shell.

  3. Tape the outside seams or run a bead of hot glue along them, because silicone finds every gap.

  4. Mix 270 ml of silicone in one batch, pour it into the open top in a thin stream, and fill level with the rim.

  5. Once it has cured, unclip the shell and slide each half off SIDEWAYS, not upward: the master is wider above its foot, so the base rib is left open for that. Then peel the silicone off the master. That silicone is your mold.

  6. Before the first cast, cut a thin vent slit in the cured silicone from the small pocket about 7 mm up the foot of the cone to the opening: the generator flags about 1 ml of air that would otherwise stay trapped there.

  7. Set the silicone back in the shell to keep its shape, and cast into it through the opening the base left.

Print details

9 h 10 minPrint time
~259 gFilament
9Printed parts
108 × 116 × 112 mmSize (W x D x H)
All print details
Print details
Cast materialCandle wax
Printed parts9
Size (W x D x H)108 x 116 x 112 mm
Print bed needed116 x 106 mm, 112 mm tall
Filament~259 g
Layer height0.2 mm
Infill15%
SupportsNot needed
DownloadZIP: 9 printed parts in 4 STL files + candle master (STL) + print sheet + recipe
Added2026-09-25
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Questions about this design

How do I make the pine cone candle look snowy?

Once it is out, dry-brush white or silver mica over the tips of the scales only, holding the brush almost flat so it never reaches the gaps. The dark gaps and the light tips give the frosted look of a cone picked up in the snow.

Why does the pine cone need a silicone mold?

Each of the 120 scales hooks under the one above it. A rigid mold would lock on every one of them. Silicone stretches out of the gaps and snaps back, so the cone comes out whole with all its scales.

Can I use the pine cone candle mold for soap or plaster?

Yes. Melt-and-pour soap releases well from it and makes a nice winter guest soap, and plaster or Jesmonite gives you a cone you can paint for a wreath or a table decoration. Skip the wick for either.

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