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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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