Anybody has experience making bayberry candles by boiling the green berries? I've read that extracting the wax is tedious, but it seems like an interesting bushcraft project:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4177/bayberrycandl.html

Frankie

were are bayberrys found??

Out there into the wild...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayberry

Oh, at first I thought you were making candles out of Blackberries (as in phones).

it only grows down to longbeach, i hate living in san diego (yeah right i love it!!!)

I don't know where bayberries grow, but I got an e-ad from Lehmans in the last week or two advertising bayberry candles - 2 for $10 - and I think I remember they said it took a pound and a half of berries to make them!