I <3 Yew (wooden ring)

[BowSlayer]

im' going to see my girlfriend on wednesday and it's the first time im going to see her in a month so i decided to make her something that would show how much i care about her. but what?... i looked around the workshop and saw some scraps of yew. after a few muinets of thinking i came up with the idea of making a ring. I took lots of pictures after each stage so ill let them do the talking.




the disk is 10mm wide


this is a 3/4" drill bit


drilling the hole


there was already a hole in the workbench


then it broke


so i made another one the same way, but nearer to the centre




i clamped the rasp upside down


then i dragged the ring across the rasp to remove wood. slow but safe, kinda.


getting there...


ouch, i hate rasps but i alsoo love them.


roughed out but lots of hard edges and tool marks. where's that sand paper?


30mins of sanding later


i then used a wood burning pen to burn the words "I <3 YEW" into the wood.


time for some varnish


and the final piece. there is three layers of varnish on the outside and one on the inside.

thanks everyone for looking

[skarhand]

That's pretty cool. I might have to try something like that sometime. I don't have a wood burner thought, so I may have to write the message when I rasp my knuckles...just need a a quill pen. Much more primitive that way.

Or not, that seems kinda creepy, LOL.

[BowSlayer]

That's pretty cool. I might have to try something like that sometime. I don't have a wood burner thought, so I may have to write the message when I rasp my knuckles...just need a a quill pen. Much more primitive that way.

Or not, that seems kinda creepy, LOL.

if you don't have a wood burner you can use a soldering iorn. if that fails then any kind of metal point that is hot will work maybe try heating the end of a knife with a stove and using that. 

[skarhand]

Yea, I was thinking about heating up a nail on my BBQ grill.

Or I could try tossing it onto a volcano and see if I could get Sauron to inscribe it for me...I've always wanted to rule the world. <insert maniacal laughter here>

[BowSlayer]

Nothing says ruler of the world like a ring with a love message on it

[BowSlayer]

Ttt for valentines day