What's happening Youtube, Dan Rees here from www.ZebranoWoodCraft.com and I'm back to you
with another video!
I'm sorry, I know it's been like a really long time but I've just been setting up this
whole new workshop.
In this video I'm going to show you how to make this cool little carbon fiber ring with
a wood interior.
So the outside there, that's carbon fiber and the inside is made with just a simple
American black Walnut.
This isn't actually as complicated as it sounds to make, so keep watching.
Maybe I can show you that you don't need a massive workshop to have a good time (after
all it's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean!).
To make the outside of this ring I used Carbon tube I bought off Ebay that had an inner diameter
roughly the same size as my finger.
This actually felt a little bit like cheating to me but I don't care.
To make the inside of the ring, I wanted to use a bent wood method so I needed to find
a socket that was slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the tube.
My wood of choice for this project was a standard thickness walnut veneer and I started out
by cutting a 10mm strip of veneer with craft knife and metal ruler.
To prepare the wood for bending, I sanded one end of the strip to a paper thin point.
I soaked the strip of wood in hot water for about 30 minutes.
I wrapped the wet strip of wood around a socket and secured a bit of tape around it while
I allowed the wood to dry.
This stage just trains the wood to be round and makes the wrapping stage easier.
A little while later I got bored of waiting so I used a hair dryer to speed things up
a little!
When it was nice and dry, I test wrapped the wood around the socket until there were 2
overlapping layers and then cut off any excess with a scissors.
I sanded the freshly cut edge down to a taper just like before to help give me a smooth
ring shape.
Now for the fun part: Glue up time.
I Used a cocktail stick to apply small amounts of glue to the wood, before carefully wrapping
the wood around itself to form a bent wood ring.
The important thing to remember here is to keep those wraps nice and tight.
With my ring formed I sanded the inside and outer seams until they blended in nicely and
looked a bit more presentable.
I used sandpaper to clean the edges of the wooden ring.
Pro tip: using a figure of 8 motion keeps the ring width nice and even.
Right, so that's the wooden portion of the ring done.
Now we need to take a 10mm section of this carbon fiber tube.
To do this I set my trusty calipers to 10mm and scored a line around the carbon fiber
tube.
Using the score line as a guide I cut the tube with a razor saw.
When the cutting was complete I cleaned up the edges of the ring once again using the
figure of 8 technique on sandpaper.
I sanded out the inside of carbon fiber ring until the bent wood ring was a tight fit.
To glue the bent wood ring inside the carbon fiber ring, I applied a layer of super glue
around the outside of the wood ring and pressed it in to the carbon fiber.
… Super frustrating: I have glued my ring to the socket!
I was a little too generous with the glue and had a bit of overspill and now this is
stuck to this.
I think that with a little brute strength that can be undone, so I'm just going to crack
on and see you in 5 minutes.
After prizing my ring off the socket I once again sanded down the outer edges.
The inner seam needed gluing so I used a craft knife to lift up any bits that weren't stuck
down.
I used a small amount of glue applied with a cocktail stick and then pressed down the
inner seam.
Mounting the ring on a spindle on the lathe I used a few grits of sand paper to round
off the edges, before polishing the ring with micro mesh to get it nice and shiny.
A light rubbing with a bit of car polish really finished the job.
I sanded and tapered the inside edges of the ring using progressively finer grits of sandpaper
until the ring was nice and smooth.
To finish the wood I used jojoba oil for a bit of protection.
Cool bros so that's the end of the project!
I'm loving the look of these rings with the futuristic, future looking carbon fiber exterior
and that natural oiled, wooden interior.
I think they make really cool pieces of jewellery.
I'm sure that some of you will be keen to find out how to do that shiny, C.A finish
inside which I might release a video for.
I've put links to all of the tools and materials I used down in the description so check those
out.
Please subscribe to my channel, watch more videos and until next time … stay safe.
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