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hi welcome back to the shop thanks for stopping by this week we're going to continue another video in the series of projects that sell and this is a product that i make a lot of uh really popular with wedding showers uh wedding presents and uh really taking off at christmas time um so we're gonna make two different styles of rolling pins and you can make them out of any any wood you have in your shop uh you can make them fancy by laminating different colors together this is just yellow birch laminated together but say you can use any scrap wood that you have really you only need a a blank that's two and a half inches square you know this is two and seven eighths but it doesn't need to be this big so what i've done mark center on both ends put a mark where my chuck would go on them so that it has a good grip on the chuck it doesn't spin on you slide the tail stock up i've knocked the corners off on these with the table saw you don't need to do that if you don't have a table saw you can turn them off it doesn't make any difference but it just saves a little time on the lathe now the first thing you want to do is make the whole thing round and i line i'm looking down through my tool rest i'm lining it up with my bed rail as good as i can my eye so if you can get that fairly straight and make it the straightest cylinder that you can it is helpful more important when you're making the final cuts so to start with is not as important so we're going to turn this up pretty high speed we're going to start it with the roughing gouge spindle roughing gouge and we're going to make this round and we'll go from there i like all the videos in the series i'm going to do this in real time so you can see how long it takes to make them it's a very easy product to make and um doesn't matter if you're a beginner intermediate it's it's it's quick and easy and you don't need anything other than what game with your lathe so i'm not using any four jaw chucks or anything just a spur center and a live center in my tail stock [Music] [Music] so this is this this is the uh traditional handled rolling pin that i'm making first um the blank is 18 inches long it's just a hair over 18 inches long actually [Music] [Music] [Music] okay now that we have it around again this blank is just a little over it's 18 and a quarter so we're going to come in three and an eight inches on both ends we'll just mark that we'll have to do this again but it's important to get the between these two lines in a perfect cylinder so we're gonna know where we have to go here now this is just the the tool rest that came with my lathe i do have an 18 inch tool rest but but for the purposes of this video i'm going to use what would normally come with everyone's lathe um if you have an 18 inch tool rest you won't have to move it you can leave it in place and go end-to-end and not have to make any other adjustments so again i'm lining this up with my with my bed rails it's pretty close perfect now i take a s if you're good with a skew uh you can do this really easily with a skew as well most most intermediate and beginning turners aren't i'm not good with this skew either for that matter so i use a scraper on this and what i do is i lay my finger up in my tool rest i set my chisel on the tool rest i get my feet set so that i can move i can hold this on my body and just just move my body so i'm not moving my left or right hand i'm just basically going from one foot to the other and that and holding this right down tight and in not allowing it to go up or down or in or out and i'm gonna make a perfect cylinder out of this [Music] okay so you can see we get a lot cleaner cut than we got with the roughing gouge now i don't know where my other calipers are so i've got a gigantic set of calipers so what you want to do next is you want to measure the end in the middle and the other end so i'm a little bit thick right here i'm good in the middle i'm good on this end i gotta take just a tiny bit more off of this now after you've got it that far slide your tail stock up to your piece and you can go now without using the bed rails you can go by just a piece of wood you know that you have to take a little bit off so you're going to set your tail stock just a tiny bit closer on this side than the other side which i just have done exactly the same technique only coming across from the center at this time so you want to not you just want to barely touch here [Music] okay so i've locked these calipers i know that i'm good here still that's perfect right there now it's good right here as well it's exactly what we want all right now we're going to remark our three and eighth inch marks now we're going to turn the handle on the tail stock end first and the reason you do the tail stock in first is if you do the headstock end and make it smaller you're more prone to getting vibration so if you do it out here you have you have much more meat back at the headstock so you get a lot less vibration so start out away from your line a little bit cut high to low [Music] [Music] so what i do is i start to establish this cove here and then i get about just a little past half of what of this three and eight inch so just a little bit past half and then i start to taper from from that not quite center point just like say just a little bit beyond half and start to taper that out to the tail stock and then we're gonna work it down a little smaller and then when we get it down to the size that we want then we're just gonna round this edge from here in [Music] so [Applause] now we're going to clean it up to our line you can see that as we rounded this down that part that that high point that was beyond center works its way closer to the to the barrel of the rolling pin so that's a nice handle right there that that's that's going to feel good on your hands now i'm going to do is take a small bowl gouge and i'm going to put a chamfer on the end of it and what we're going to do when we're done is we're going to want to get rid of this chuck mark on each end and so i'm going to put a chamfer on it and i'm going to come back about 3 16 of an inch and just cut a straight 45 in there [Music] and now when we come back and cut this off we're still going to have a little bit of that chamfer on there so there won't be a sharp edge out on the edge one of the nice things about this style of rolling pin rather than the ones where you drill it through and put a metal shaft and have two handles is it's hey it's one glue up it's one piece of wood it's it's easy to do and you don't have to if you can't push it through your dough you can you can turn it with your hand and everyone who's gotten these from me really likes that so i'm gonna come back and do the other side exactly the same way the nice thing of these is that they don't one rolling pin doesn't need to be the same as the other if the diameter is a little bit different on each one the handle design is a little different each one it doesn't make any difference as long as the handles are the same from end to end on the same pin [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so now that we've got our rough handle on both sides and they're pretty close to the same profile before i turn this down i am going to take my calipers again i'm going to measure the smallest part right here in the cove so those are good then i'm going to measure the highest part okay so i'm going to take just a little bit more off of this one and i'm also going to measure back quarter back to the chamfer on this one and i'm going to come in on this one a little bit so this is all the way too big from here back so i just got to take this little off of here [Music] [Music] you don't want to take too much at a time because if you get too much on this and then you go back to the other end and start whittling it down and you'll run out of wood after a while okay so we get this the high part measured measure this one still just a hair too much so i'm going to fix this first before i go to the outside edge [Music] [Music] still here too much now i'm going to open this up to this big one to see i'm going to measure the big point here then i'm going to go to the other end and see how much i have to take off to get myself an idea it is very little actually i guess it's all right okay it's good now we're going to measure the small part out here again same place on this one we're just holding in a little bit for that for that chamfer needs just a tiny bit off it [Music] before i measure this one i'm going to cut the chamfer on it this time [Music] now we'll start standing at 120 grit and only sand these to 320 because if they get too smooth then the flower won't stay on them and the dough sticks to them so i like to start in reverse if you have a lathe that's reversible when you start with your first grit put your lathe in reverse remember to turn your rpm down when you're sanding i am going to speed up the sanding in this video because no one wants to watch real time sanding i don't think you can really speed up the sanding if you go along the grain it's just enough to take out the circular sandpaper lines around the the piece okay now we're at a 240 grit now i'm just going to knock the sanding dust off it's just with a dry paper towel it doesn't take much for this it's very close grain wood so you can see it's coming right off so again we went reverse first grit toward a second grit we're going to go reverse on the last grip so lots of people ask me questions um and comments about these things on why yourself with these four um if you're selling these at a christmas craft show or something like that you can sell them for fifty dollars a piece like two for 40 but right in that range and again if you get any uh any flat stock in your shop that's cut offs from other projects and things like that it's uh your upfront cost for your wood's inexpensive okay just gonna wait the dust off one more time now the finish i like to put on these it is a friction it's a wax hot wax i use the the middle color there's a darker and there's a lighter for yellow birch i like to use this color it's food safe it's just beeswax canoe wax and a friction polish you turn your lace speed up hold the bar on let it melt in buff it in with a cloth and i'll show you how that goes [Music] i'm just gonna stop this and show you how this looks like when it's on it looks terrible but it's got a good dice he's got a nice distribution of wax all the way over and you're gonna want to take your paper towel to buff this in with same as most finishes you're going to want to have at least four ply because this stuff's going to get hot you're melting wax so maybe you make it eight pile will double that again at high speed [Music] okay that puts on a really durable really nice finish and um everyone who has one of these uh not everyone but anyone who's who has given me any feedback uh they love the finish they work really well for them so that's how easy it is to make one of these now what i do with the rest of it i just take this off now you can do it a bunch of ways i just take it i have a vertical belt sander and a disc sander and i just take that in and i go by the line of where the chamfer is so i know that i'm doing a square and i just run it hold it on the bed with a piece of paper towel under it so it doesn't scratch and i just slide it and sand it off and i'll show you that after a bit here now the next one that we're going to make is the less popular style where i live but it is a pretty popular style in some places so we're going to make a french rolling pin [Music] okay so i was talking to a camera that wasn't on there so anyway same process as the last one we made around you'll notice it's smaller diameter than the other one uh french rolling pins are smaller diameter and um i'll give you the finished measurement of the barrel and the the taper when we're when we're done so like the last one we're going to want 12 inches in the center that is uh that's actually flat rolling pin and then we're going to taper the outsides so that leaves us five inches on both ends so we're going to use for taper mark 5 inches in from both sides [Music] and you don't actually need to mark it i always i like to you don't have to you can do it you can just true the whole thing up if you want to i just find this is quicker so once again i'm lining up my bed rails to my to my tool rest [Music] [Music] okay so once again we're gonna go measure this barrel this side measure the center okay take just a hair off of the center just a hair off this side very seldom get it perfect the first time okay so again i'm just setting this now so i have a little bit more gap on this and then this end not a lot more because i'm pretty close [Music] don't run your chisel off the end of your tool rest like that that's not good [Music] [Music] set this down and bump it all right so there we go center is good the outside edge is good all right so now we're all set put our five inch marks back on again so we know where we're going from we don't want to touch that barrel now you set your tool rest to the taper that you're going to want on the end [Music] i didn't like this one it was a little too thick so i decided i would make the barrel a little bit smaller so that the tapers would be smaller as well and rather than go through the exact same thing i just did i just sped this part up [Music] [Music] so [Music] now on these ones we're going to round this edge over more than more than the other um not just a chamfer we're actually going to round it down some so i'll bring you over here a little closer there we go [Music] all right so rather than showing you full turn on both ends we have the same diameter at the black line and we're cutting a straight line for the taper so we just have to make sure that the diameter at the end is exactly the same on both sides and that's all there is to really cutting these tapers the trick to getting it right is to set your tool rest to the taper angle that you want and use the same technique as you did on the barrel just take your scraper straight across don't don't bury it or out [Music] foreign [Music] all right i'm going to sand this up off camera because you don't need to see me sand another one and then we'll just do the ends up on both of them and i'll show you that and also i'll put the finish on as well so you can see that again for anyone who just isn't used to hot wax all right so i'm ready to put hot wax on this now um the barrel measurement on this is two inches just a tiny sherry to over two inches and for anyone who's interested to barrel on the other rolling finish just around two and a half so that is a really fast and easy and food safe finish and it is durable okay take these over to the sander i'll show you how we take the ends off them this is a much longer video than i normally put out and i did want to show most of the non-repetitious uh aspects of making each of these two rolling pins so if you're still with me thanks so much for sticking around thanks again to everyone who subscribes to the channel i really do appreciate that and also appreciate everyone who watches the videos if you watch this and liked it and you haven't subscribed please consider doing so and leave a comment and a thumbs up or a thumbs down let me know if you didn't like the video what you didn't like so i can work to improve and as always there'll be a few stills up at the end all right so i just sand them to the chuck marks are gone they just take a little bit of salad bowl oil put it on our paper towel and i just treat the ends with a little bit of that so that they're not dry and you can see that to get the chuck marks out you really do take off most of that chamfer so if you want more chamfer on the end you can turn it back a little bit farther i usually just leave enough just so that there's not a sharp edge here and it's the exact same process with the other one so as you saw all right that's all there is to it we'll see you next time you

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Length: 35min 33sec (2133 seconds)

Published: Mon May 17 2021