Wax Seal Sticks, ANBOSE 16 Pieces Glue Gun Sealing Wax Sticks for Wax Seal Stamp, New Wine Red Wax Seal Stick for 0.44 Inch Glue Gun, for Wedding Invitations, Cards, Envelopes

These wax seal sticks are a very interesting way to melt wax for seals, compared to using a stick of wax and a lighter. You just put them into a hot glue gun and then pull a trigger to melt wax and thn seal it. It's very convenient and the wax looks very good. I like this method so much better that I've designated my hot glue gun to only be used for wax from now on. Great product.

I got these to try out on a project I have where I need to make some red seals. I saw these and I liked the darker red shown here on the Amazon store page. However when they arrived I had to double check that I had the correct color. What I have is more of a darker metallic orange-brown than a wine red, or what is shown on the website. It doesn't really come across as red to me. So I'll be off to find just the right red color of wax for my purposes.These are glue gun melt wax sticks. While that works, I don't want to buy a glue gun just to dedicate to wax seals. I also don't want to bother with trying to melt a blob off the stick, so I cut a chunk off the stick and melted it in a melt spoon. It melts fairly quickly. I was able to melt enough for a single stamp in about 1 minute or so, maybe a little longer. Which is comparable to most pellet waxes I've used.I did my tests on printer paper. The wax bonds with the paper extremely well. To the point it begins to tear the paper if you try pealing it off. While it bonds to the paper well it doesn't grip the stamp excessively and the stamps are fairly easy to pull out of the cooled wax. The completely cooled stamp feels a bit stiffer and less flexible than seals made with pellet wax. That doesn't mean they feel like they are in danger of cracking or breaking easily, Just a little less flexible.If you have a big bunch of letters or other items you want wax seals on this would be a very good option for you as a hot glue gun will be much easier and faster in the long run. However if you only want to seal one or two items these will not be as good, unless you want to cut them up for use in a melt spoon.You get a lot of wax sticks in the package, so it is a fairly reasonable price. You get 16 sticks and I estimate you should be able to get at least 20 stamps out of each stick, giving you at least 320 stamps per package. Coming out to around 3.5 -3.75 cents per stamp.