Monday, January 4, 2021

How to make a twisted pencil holder - woodturning and woodcarving

 





















Tools and materials I propose:

Lathe

Wood turning tools set

Chuck kit

Flat jaws for bowl bottoms

Electric planer

Flexcut starter carving set

Cabinet Scraper set

Foredom Woodcarving Kit

Buffing kit

Bowl Sander


In this video I make a pencil holder out of apricot wood. I first turned it on the lathe. Then I used my divider to help me draw the spirals which I then hand carved with my gouges.


I first used my electric planer, to plane my wood as round as possible.


I then mounted it on the lathe and turned it true. I also made a tenon to fit my chuck. 


Apricot is really beautiful wood. It is also a pleasure to sand it, turn it and carve it. It even smells really nicely. But it can crack really easily. In this piece I had a lot of cracks and I should dip it in epoxy. But it was an experimental piece, so I decided to use super glue and wood chips to fill my cracks. 


I started hollowing with drill bits and then I used a forstner bit.


Then I used my hook tool to finish the rest of the hollowing process. The hook tool works great on end grain. It’s kind of tricky to sharpen it. I use my rotary tools with a conical grinding stone bit. 


I sanded the piece. I also like to hand sand with the grain to remove the vertical scratches. 


My chuck has a built in divider, so I used it to design the spiral design.


I then started hand carving with my gouges. I did not use a V chisel. I just used round gouges to gradually carve my shape. 


I then used a flat scraper to even up my surfaces.


I sanded to 300 grit. 


I then parted the piece off the lathe. I reversed chucked it to clean the bottom with a bowl gouge. I finished the bottom with my bowl sander chucked on the lathe’s spindle.


Finally I finished the piece with mineral oil and  polished it with a buffing wheel.


I am really happy with the way my pencil holder came out, but that was it. See you soon with a new project video.



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