Oh, I love the one with the (I am guessing somewhere West Africa from the accent) fellow that just buys 5 tubes of silicone caulk to do it. Although the brilliance of that was that he used plastic foundation for the mold mother. But you can spend a bunch and get the nice 2 part silicone mold making stuff and do that too. Seems easy enough. The one thing I hadn't seen was putting up some walls so that you were pouring the wax to a given depth before putting the second mold onto it. It all looked like making waffles and made me hungry :)
Something else I though of on the wires/mono. It might have to be raised up off of the paddle some. Just a few thou, and that might make it better especially for the mono. The other thing I was thinking of was to cook the mono in the hot wax first so that it is up to the wax temp before it gets hit with the hot wax. It might pull the wax around it better, kind of like sweating a pipe. Or you might have to pre-wax the mono like a candle wick, or tinning multi-strand wire before soldering.
Just guessing, at some point, don't starter strips just sound like a better idea :)