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Big bold WILD letters standing in front of a jagged mountain range: a sculptural word candle, cast face down in a one-piece silicone mold you pour yourself.
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A statement candle 150 mm wide, 108 mm tall and 40 mm deep. The word WILD in thick block capitals stands 9 mm proud of a 31 mm mountain body, and behind it a range of pointed peaks climbs to a summit in the middle, with snow raised on the five highest. The letters and the mountains share one flat base, and the wick goes into the summit. It takes about 368 ml, roughly 331 g of wax.
Made with our own generators: the body is our logo candle engine grown from a mountain silhouette, the word and the snow are raised with its own relief builder, and the mold is our tray mold generator in its flexible silicone tray mode, one cavity, with the outer edge following the mountains. You print one part, a caster with the candle standing in it, pour about 332 ml of silicone, and peel out a one-piece open-back mold: the candle is poured face down through its open back and flexes straight out.
Pour it in ivory, sand or charcoal for a cabin shelf, a camper van or a gift for someone who lives outdoors, and dry-brush the letters and snow in white or gold mica. The zip carries the printed caster exactly as the tool exported it, the candle on its own as an STL, the master uploaded to the tool, and a print and pour sheet with the silicone figure the tool measured.
Shown as a 3D render of the printed caster, the silicone mold it pours and the finished candle on a concrete tray, not a photo.
Print the caster as exported, open side up, no supports. Its raised candle is the face of every candle you pour, so print at 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers or turn on ironing: the silicone copies every layer line.
Set it on a level surface. Mix 364 ml of silicone in one batch and pour it into one corner in a thin stream, letting it flow round the raised candle until it is level with the rim.
Tap the caster on the table for a minute to bring the bubbles up, then let the silicone cure for as long as its datasheet says.
Peel the cured silicone out of the caster. That silicone is your mold: one piece, open at the back, with the letters and mountains pressed into its floor. The caster is ready for another one.
Set the mold on a level surface and pour the wax at 65 to 75 C to just below the rim. Once it is firm but still warm, top up the dip in the middle. The open side becomes the flat back of the candle.
Let it cool fully, then peel the mold back from the edges, working the silicone off between the peaks one at a time rather than pulling the candle out by its summit. It comes out face first. Stand it on its flat base.
Heat the wick pin and push it straight down about 60 mm from the top of the middle peak, pull it out, thread the primed wick in and seal it with a drop of wax.
Print details
| Cast material | Candle wax |
|---|---|
| Printed parts | 1 |
| Size (W x D x H) | 165 x 122 x 54 mm |
| Print bed needed | 165 x 123 mm, 54 mm tall |
| Filament | ~318 g |
| Layer height | 0.2 mm |
| Infill | 15% |
| Supports | Not needed |
| Download | ZIP: printed caster (STL) + one word candle (STL) + tool master (STL) + print and pour sheet |
| Added | 2026-10-05 |
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No. Most candle molds in our library are rigid two-part prints. This one is a single flexible silicone mold that is open at the back: the candle lies face down in it, you pour through the back, and you flex the silicone to release it. The printed part is only the caster you pour the silicone into once.
It is a decorative candle first: 150 mm wide and 40 mm deep with one wick at the summit, so it melts a pool around the peak and leaves the letters standing for a long time. Burn it for an hour or two at a time, never unattended, and if you want it as a pure display piece, skip the wick.
The silicone between two peaks is a narrow wedge, and that is where a mold tears if it is yanked. Let the candle cool fully, then peel the silicone back from one side, easing it out of each valley in turn. A Shore 20A to 30A silicone lasts longer here than a very soft one.
Close to it, in a few clicks. Draw your word inside a mountain outline as an SVG or PNG and upload it to our logo candle generator in engraved mode: the mountains sink and the word stands proud, with a thin rim round the outline. Then send it on to the silicone mold maker in box mode, which pours a one-piece, open-back mold around it. This file goes one step further, with the word raised on a full mountain body, which the generator does not offer as a setting yet.
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