What is up, Mafia?!?
You’ve probably seen those trendy little tabletop bonfire tins all over social media, or is it just my algorithm...? They’re supposed to be for "aesthetic s'mores date nights," but people are charging an arm and a leg for them. Naturally, I looked at them and told Kim “We can easily make those! I mean... It's just melting wax and using some toilet paper role.”
Cut to 10 PM the other night. Kim and I are in the workshop melting wax, throwing random materials into tin cans, and accidentally creating miniature weapons of mass destruction.
Pro Tip: do not use cedar it is Toxic☠️ and not in the Britney Spears kinda way...
Instead of a cozy date-night vibe, we ended up with a 4 foot-tall raging inferno that literally melted the paint off the tin! Ok... maybe it was 4 inches, but it still melted the paint off the tin.
A prototype that looks like a sad toilet paper roll, and one wood wick that I absolutely mauled right before testing... gave it the old Tonya Harding treatment.
I’m not going to spoil all the details here because you need to actually see the chaos to believe it. We’re making all the mistakes so you don't have to (and so you can watch us almost burn the workbench down).
Check it out to see which prototypes survived, and let me know in the comments: Are you Team Wood Wick, or do you prefer the chaotic, shop-burning energy of the cardboard inferno? I mean... I'm torn.