Original Video: lathing a wand

What's going on with you YouTube? It's your boy King Cobra back at it with another video man. Thank you to Jared for donating $4.22 to my cash app. Cheers. who wanted to see how the wands were made. Well you're looking at it, but I'll take a pen right after I get the dowel for my wand attached to the lay, bark off the end of it. As you can see I've already got a handle started. It's pretty straightforward. I take my carving tool and I go along the edge that I've been carving until I get that handle down to the thickness I want. And then when I get to that point I can start shaping the handle. Okay? So I'll show the fans how I do this. It takes a while you too. You can't just crank them out, you know? You gotta be patient when you're carving these otherwise they snap. Now earlier I was getting frustrated with these because they were snapping on me. They're basically taking the point of it. And then just………………………… making the point of it. And then it's you see right there in the camera, I'm sleeping that point at home. Making wands on a leg, not exactly easy. I'll put you in that way. you can't really use to carve out either. You only have to watch the car vote neither woodlave, the chis lay, the chisels in the shop vacuum. It's been my magic wands really nice. I get the desired thickness I want for my handball if I just start adding stuff to it. Now I got to the thickness I want I want to take out a different chisel to give it a different shape. So let's go in this one right here, which will create… Let's show you real quick when I get the handle card out. Oops. Ah, she looks kind of cool how I turned out. the I'm I can't wait for a few minutes. See that YouTube? Now we have a handle. Look at that. I can have some lines too or two to make it more defined. Go back in with our, uh, our pointing tool. handle looks. That cut right there, it's really taken off later. But now if the handle is formed, I'll just hand it too real quick. That's a good looking handle, too, I like that. All right. Now I like to use three different kinds of sandpaper YouTube, a really rough course. and then the finer stuff. and then not so rough. and then the finer stuff. And then the finer stuff. All right, so thank you Jared for donating. There you all make sure that line is still in there, beautiful. Thank you Jared. For your $4.00 point you sent donation, I appreciate it. person. But generally speaking I like to just keep it simple, you know. I can do like an elder wand kind of look where it's got the bumps, like you see on the border as wand. It just takes more time to make. But I want to unplug the lathe for a second just so I can vacuum up my vests one second. Just so I can vacuum up my best one second Now I'm not going to show you how I finish the rest of the wand That's just the basic idea You take the the wand would attach it to the machine here to the lathe and I hold the tool with my hand and I just a chisel it out very slowly Very very slowly YouTube very slowly and again you want to take your time with the blade because this is where I get this is where I can get tricky okay you don't want to rush shaving down this parts if anything you know you like leave a small section from like here to here for your handguard and just kind of work, you know, you like leave a small section from like here to here for your handguard. I just kind of work on, you know, or like, you know what I'm saying? Get it all down, and like, it just takes time, YouTube. You can't rush it. But yeah, I only plug it my shop. I keep real quick. And there are plenty of wand makers who use lades. Professional wand makers will use wand lades. Yeah. Oh, a pen stuff alone. I'm I also have that green vacuum cleaner that I use the vacuum cleaner that I also have that green vacuum cleaner that I use to vacuum up the sawdust that goes around my general work bench area. But yeah, that's a good looking wand, dude. I'm like in the way that looks, very nice. So yeah, that's basically how you do it. Take your time when you're carving it, that's what I need to do. And this wand's about halfway done. It's got the hand like the way the handle looks and feels Here's my wand, or one of my wands. You see what I'm saying, YouTube? You start off with that handle, and you carve the blade. This one happens to have a glass marble on the end of it. That's pretty cool looking. So like you can kind of see right here. I'll show you on. I'm not. Start to finish. You know what I'm saying, YouTube? This one's a little bit longer, but that's all right. Yeah, pretty straightforward. Oh. So yeah, now I'm going to carve the blade. Turn that back on, grab us hose a swig of soda pop. There we got secured. There we got secured. Awesome. Awesome. These take a lot longer than me, just carving them out of the branch. I'll tell you that right now. I'm just taking it starting off from here with the point. I'm just taking it starting off from here with the points, hitting the blade. I'm trying to make a new wand with my collection. I'm trying to make a slightly thinner for my collection, after my costume this year for Halloween. And I keep breaking it every time I'm trying to make them. So I'm like, yeah, well, hold on a second. I was going to wait until tomorrow, I say. I was going to wait till tomorrow to make more wands but Jared with that $4.22 donation and Cash App was like, Tell us how you laid wands, Cobra, I'm like, all right. All right. See, it doesn't look like much now, but as it starts getting smaller and smaller on the blade section here, you can use sandpaper or… But all I'll do is I'll take the chisel and do a couple extra strokes on the part that I want to be tampered as it kind of goes down and get smaller and smaller or as a tip, you know? You only have that classic Magic Lawn one. Yeah. These take a lot longer to make than the ones in the old style ones that I make. And on top of that YouTube, Yeah. They're harder to make too. They take longer to make them this way. They're harder to make. Making magic wands on a wave is one of the hardest things to do on a wave because of how small you gotta make it. You know, when I jab it in there and push as hard as you can, you know, that's only break. It's just a… You hear that noise it makes when you drag it across your wood? Okay. That's what you're looking for. Nice light stroke. Nice light stroke. You really have to take this thing, stick it in here, pops the drill bit out right here hammer that drill bit into the center of the wood right here and then go over here and then attach it through here and clap it in the place so that when it spins really fast you can just carve it out. I don't want to be too long so I'll try to go as quickly as I can making this. I don't want this for you to be too long so I'll try to go as quickly as I can, a list. I see the profile of that getting skinnier and skinnier. That's what we're looking for man. I'm just barely pressing on it man, just enough to grind it away. The wands were pissing me off earlier so I took a break. You know, freaking Campbell left, he was hanging out for a bit. Bull shit in the breeze watching YouTube with me. I took a nap and I woke up and I got this donation so I was like, One more try wouldn't hurt. I'm using a when, lathe. It's a good lead. I'm using a wen lathe. It's a good lathe too, I like it. It's the job done. It's just big enough from my workbench too man. Say when. I see a lot of YouTubeers who use lades to make lawns. And some of these YouTubeers who use lades to make lawns. And some of these YouTubeers who layers who lay to make lawns, and some of these YouTubeers who lay out lawns are way better looking to mine. I'm still very used to using a woodlaid or a lathe in general for making lawns. But I gotta say I like using the lathe to make my lawns a lot better than the old-fashioned way. Just because it's easier on the local trees, you know? So like a lot of people are sitting there going, are they even still hand-carved? Well, technically you have to use own hands to chisel it out. So technically there's still hand carved. And then you gotta use your hands again to see it slowly but surely it's really it's and you're starting to see it slowly but surely it's getting smaller and smaller. The thing I gotta remember is I can't be in a rush to make these wands. You gotta take your sweet time and do it. Which I get like that when I get depressed to be fair. But, yeah. If at first you don't succeed try try it again. There we go. This method seems to be working a lot better. There are times where I'll just like all laid out of certain section and then go on in the next one and then next one. Suck all that. Just do it all in one smooth stroke. And don't worry about tapapering it towards the end, it's kind of relaxing to sit here or standing here, you know. People are like, I know to be fair I've been meaning to do a video showing you how I make a wand on the wave. But then Jared done either $4.22 and Jared's like, hey man, show us a late video. All right. See you around an hour into the video and the wand is nowhere near done. I'll grab something to drink on. I'm drinking on a soda pop right now. There's one amount of alcohol in two. I don't think it's smart. It makes power tools with alcohol but that's just the personally. With one amount of alcohol in two, I only think it's very smart to make drinking with waving. I don't think it's very smart to miss drinking with waving which is… So right now I'm taking on to Gerardo's wine soda pop would be really good with like a Corona, like a little wedge of wine. Oh. All right. Bury! Bury! Bury! Bury! Bury! Bury! the You want to make sure that this end is tight with this end? You know, it squeezes it under the contraction here is the woodlaid, they're quite fun to make, but it takes practice, you know. 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I'm You know I'll finally write all of these cis-genet's female, it's going to keep being patient, so why I even consent in. It's like making a why. You can't just have it happen overnight and then patience. It's a why I consenting. It's like making a why. You can't just happen overnight. I mean, patience pays off, you too. I'm I'm I mean, I mean, Oh, Now you can see YouTube, the blade of the wand is starting to form ever so slowly. I'm the I'm A couple of just regular strokes. I'm We're almost adding all the other strokes. We're almost adding all the other strokes. the I'm the the the the I'm See it's already started the form now. Oh, I'm taking too much more off to blame you. Like a little sanding like a cartel. Yeah, we'll get the smaller one of that. And this one. Well, not gonna happen. Ah shit. Well at least you didn't snap completely on me. Oh boy. Luckily this one is saveable, YouTube. Just gonna require some trim. Just gonna require some trim. Yeah, it snapped on me, but luckily it's not too bad. Just a little bit of trim't done sanding that neither, but what do you do? At this point I'm not complaining. It didn't break on me right in the center, like it has been, so… There you go. I'm Oh, like you can see right here where the blonde blade isn't going to be as long as I'd like it to be but really beggars can't be choosers I guess. Okay so we're going to take… And I also use the cloth for staining the wands but they're also great for like rolling in like that so then I put it in the vice clamp I could trim off the end of it without scratching or scuffing the wood so the next step I guess this like I said the break in this the break in this like a break in this band it's still the next step I guess this like I said this the break in this wand wasn't that bad it's doable I can make a wand out of it compared to what I have been going through today and really and not complaining okay right right there okay it might be overkill for something this big but I dig but I digress. Right, right there. Okay, it might be overkill for something this big, but I digress. Yeah. cell phone screen. Yeah, that is no. Nope. There we are. That was so tiny and thin you didn't really need a saw for that part. And then of course… Do the same for this little bit right here. I can't see. I send there like that. All right, so. Scooch that back a bit. Get this little end right here. We are. Bob's your uncle, look at that. We have a nearly completed wand. So what do you do about snapping on the end here? There's not a whole lot you can do realistically. So it is what it is. Um, It's easier to sand when it's on the lathe and spinning. That's kind of why I was hoping that it wouldn't snap on me like it did, but what do you do? Nothing you can do, YouTube. But… Okay. And I got myself……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Okay. I'll grab ourselves a fresh piece of the sandpaper here. Yeah. See, I don't like how the end is shaped, but before we do that… Then get the blade… Ouch. A good sand in. The reason I keep saying ouch is because of the fucking splinters that are sticking out of it. Bloody hell. That's why it's my job as a lawnmaker. I make a lawn. to, uh, yeah. Before it's finished I get rid of all those nasty, nasty splinters. Man, it's going to form the tip a bit better. Nasty, nasty splinters. Gonna form the tip a bit better. So sometimes you gotta sand them by hand. Much easier to do sanding too while we're at it. Make sure. Puchoo. There you go. That's basically it. I mean, now I want to hit it with a softer sandpaper. Plus, it's pretty straightforward. And that softer sandpaper is going to give it a nice glossy finish on the wood. Plus, it's going to give it a nice glossy finish on the wood. Plus giving it a good sanding, it makes the wand smoother in the hands, and it'll make the stain or paint. Whenever you put on it, stick to it. There you have at YouTube One Magic Wand. Now it's not finished yet, so I'm going to add paint, two lit or stain, or whatever the fuck I feel like painting it. Out of all the last couple of wands I've been making, this one turned out the nicest. That's a good looking wand there we are this new batch of wands I'm gonna paint the handle is black and then do a different color for each blade yeah now just kind of feeling the wand up here the wand of feeling that the wand up here is to make sure. That fits comfortably in my large hand. Blades not too skinny, not too thin. That wand's got a nice profile on it. I'm liking that beautiful YouTube so I want to make this one black and green um now basically what I do next is uh yeah man take some of our painter's tape and off of it. There we are. Beautiful. Now that's sanded, YouTube. I'll take the painter's tape. I'll take the painter's tape and the part that I don't want painted just yet. Okay. The piece wasn't quite long enough but we got it hold up. There we go. Now you don't have to use painter's tape when you're painting it two different colors. But the reason why I'm doing it and practicing it like this is so that when I do paint it it just has a nice clean line. You know what I'm saying YouTube? So yeah, I'll go outside. Try a nice, quiet spot in the grass. Hit this side with some black spray paints. Let it dry and then… Get off of there. There we go. The bottom of that could have been a lot smoother. I get nitpicky about these sorts of things. there. I get nitpicky about these sorts of things. There it is easy. All right. Now if you want that like silky smooth finish on your wands when you're standing it, you start off with like a really rough gritty sandpaper and then like you just switch to a smoother one and it'll make the wood on your wand really really freaking smooth dude. But yeah YouTube. I'm not going to show you painting it on camera because you see me spray paint my wands how many times on YouTube back at my old place. Only difference here is I gotta do that outside, which I don't mind spray painting the wands, outdoors and all that. But there you go, YouTube.