As part of our initial research, we read blog post after web article where people tell of years crafting their art, the heartache of perfecting their techniques and the often frustrating and painful tales of testing, retesting and testing again, using friends and family as guinea pigs.
Many of these stories stress the need for endless patience and of many lost hours, working out optimum oil/wax/wick combinations. After reading all this information, we were quietly worried about losing our sanity if we embarked on down this road but decided to give it a try. We do subscribe to the ‘go hard or go home’ mantra so, never knowingly doing anything by half measures, we plunged in head first . . .
