OK here is wand nine its the same wood as the last thorn less honey locust.
like always I remove the bark with a chisel.I then Wanted the handle
to be more flatter so I used a chisel, and a Dremel tool to carve it out.
I did the same with the tip and the handle using the cement on the porch,
to shape and round it off and a Dremel tool as well. Then sand paper and
I sanded the wand to its final sanding. The angel on the handle was from
how I cut it off. I then was thinking of burning some designs into the wand,
it was my first time wood burning and part of it wasn't aligned. I did the four
elements first, as you an see the water symbol is off slightly.
I then couldn't decide what other symbol to do on the wand but
the infinity/finger eight kept coming to mind and to put it towards
the tip. So I used a stencil to help draw it on then I free handed over
that whit a wood burning tool from Michaels.
Then I coated it with two cats of scolpy glaze to protect it.
the wand wasn't finished but it took over a month before it
came to mind. Yes I'm going to say this I was siting well sometimes
this is where you get inspiration. Well I was siting on the toilet doing
my thing and it came to my mind. to wrap twin around the wand,
from the elemental symbols to the infinity/figure eight. In an x
shape up the wand top and bottom I let the wrapping the wand decide how
it should be. I dried fitted it keeping extra so I knew I had enough. I ended
up after the infinity symbol. I glued it on with E6000. And two coats of
modpodge to protect it and lay down the frayed edged.
Ok here is wand number ten the wood is also from the same tree
a thorn less honey locust. I liked this one because how it looked.
on the handle how it splits into two other branches. I striped
the bark as normal with a chisel. Used the cement on the porch
Dremel tool and sand paper to round off the edges.I used washable
markers to do the coloring. I wanted it dark blue then light blue.
well kind of like the Kingdome hearts birth by sleep loading screen
heart. But the dark blue marker I was using was almost out and
went light blue. So I grabbed a different one, so the tip to the handle
ended up light blue then dark blue down the wand. I noticed it was
translucent enough for the wood to still show through, witch made it
more beautiful. I then coated it with two coats of scolpy glaze.
As you can see the things hanging from it, there beads I made
from scolpy polymer clay. purple and silver and the silver is sparkly
and swirly dark parts all around it. There also coated in scolpy glaze.
I used beading thread tied several knots in one spot to hold the beads on.
I used the metal part of a small twisty tie to help feed it through the beads.
it was tricky but I put a knot on top of the beads as well, to keep them
from sliding. Words of advise when I ties the beading thread to the handle,
after the beads where set I didn't have long enough thread to tie it on. So
it was difficult tying the first one on the shooter one. The second one was
easier with the length. As you can see the colors are the opposite of each other.
I finished this one before I finished wand number 9.
