Creating a Walnut and Copper Bentwood Ring

next Saturday I'm gonna be giving away a walnut and blue opal ring all you're gonna have to do is comment on next week's video they'll be more information there in this video we're gonna make a vent would ring out of this quarter-sawn walnut and we're gonna put it on a core of 3/4 inch copper tubing and then we're also going to take this 20 gauge copper wire and do a nice inlay with it and for fastening and stabilizing we're going to use this CA and we're gonna finish it off with a clear coat of Illuma we're gonna start by cutting a centimeter wide strip of our quarter sawn walnut a good trick is to taper one side of the wood before you roll it that way when it dries so you won't end up with any bad kinks in your roll now I'm going to dip the wood in some nearly boiling water to soften it up so that we can shape it with the wood wet we're gonna wrap it around a socket I like to use the exacto knife to hold down the tapered edge just so I can get the roll started off easy and then we're gonna roll it up as tight as we can and then roll it a few times on the table and once we do that we'll tape it with some masking tape I'm gonna dry this for an hour or two and then we're gonna get to work on our copper ring core this ring is gonna be six millimeter wide and I'm gonna mark it at six but I'm gonna cut it a little bigger just because I can always take more off we're going to use this pipe cutter to wind off this piece for our core and then we can get to work shaping in sizing it before we can size this we need to knock these hard edges off but before I do that I'm gonna do a little light annealing just to increase the cold workability of the Ring and now I can easily knock off those rough edges and we can size up this band this cord is an 11 right now and we need to make it a 12 so we're gonna put it on the ring structure an easy way to expand the ring is just to torque it three times and slowly rotate between each and then flip it over and do the same thing and we'll give you about a quarter of a size each time but as you get closer to the size you're going for you're gonna you're gonna talk a little less just to be more gentle so I went all the way to 12 and a quarter because we're gonna completely encapsulate the ring so that's gonna add about a quarter size so I made it a little bit larger the band is sized but now we need to shape the face because we have a little concave so what we're gonna do is just take it over to the disk on the belt sander and slowly grind down the face and get it flat the face of the copper is flushed out pretty good now but I still want to clean all that oxidation off before I put the wood on so I'm just going to use a steel bristle brush to clean it off really well the quarter-sawn walnut is all dry so now we can put our copper core inside of it and glue it up so we can get to work on our ring blank what we're gonna do is just put it inside of there and then roll it a few times to get a nice tight wind and then we're gonna use the thick CA to hold the wood in place and then we're gonna tape it and use the thin CA to stabilize the band [Music] [Music] after about an hour the glue should be dry so you can pull the tape off and have a look at the finished blank like I mentioned before we're going for a six millimeter width on this band so what we're gonna do is go over to the belt sander and keep grinding it down until we get pretty close to that with [Music] so now that I have the right width I can turn it on the lathe for fine we're working like this I usually like to go with a skew to shape and then any sanding idea will be mostly with 220 grit you after I shape a band I like to add a thin layer of CA before doing any kind of an inlay especially with a wire inlay because you have to really take your time on depth and width and having a harder surface just makes it a little bit more particular when you're grinding [Music] so the inlet is the right depth and ready to put the wire in it's 20 gauge wire so it's pretty heavy giving a little pre-roll and adding a curve to it before you try to place it in the inlay will make the whole job a lot easier I'm going to use a couple of drops of CA to attach the wire and we're gonna work our way all the way around the band once we get there we're gonna snip off the excess and then file it down until it fits snugly in there [Music] because copper is so soft you can use a lot of different tools to flush the face of it I just like to start with a file and then finish with sandpaper but you know you could use a dremel tool you could use a grinder you could even use a tungsten bit but if you pull this inlay out it's a real headache to try to put it back in [Music] so now the face is totally sanded and polished and ready to clear coated now we can break out the alum UV and clear coat the band we can lay on really thick coat here because luma UV is so viscous that itself levels and in the UV bath it also cure up very quickly [Music] now it'll go five to ten minutes in the UV bath and it'll be totally cured of alum UV is rated an eighty of Shirdi hardness so it's got the same strength as a construction hardhat and the more I use it the more I realize it's gonna go on all of my vans so I've taken the band off the mandrel and wrapped it in some masking tape now we can turn it on the lathe and sand the inside and once we get it all sanded up and polished we can do a full dip in the Illuma UV so the whole band will be clear coated [Music] [Music] so the band is totally shaped and I cleaned it with a little bit of denatured alcohol to remove any dust and now I'm gonna use some alumina and a backlight to attach nylon to the band and then once we do this we can dip it in the bottle of luma UV [Music] so here I'm using a q-tip to remove the excess resin but the more I can get around with this method I found it a lot easier just to use a heat gun and you can thin the resin out so that it just beads off and levels out even better so after about 30 minutes in the UV bath we've snapped off that piece of nylon and it left a little note on the outside of the band so I'm doing a rough sand here on the disc and then I'm gonna go back with some some softer sand papers and really finish it off and then we're gonna go to the buffing wheel and shine it up I feel with this band that less is more you know the dark wood mixed with the copper looks great and the full clear coat will stop you from getting any kind of you know green marking on your finger from that copper thanks so much for watching guys I can't believe that I'm almost three thousand subscribers and a hundred thousand views if you enjoyed the video please like and subscribe if you didn't I doubt you're hearing this but I appreciate it anyway

Channel: Tempest Rings

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Length: 16min 35sec (995 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 09 2017