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Mansonia and Canary Wand

Measures 14 1/4 inches. The handle is mansonia and the shaft is made from canary, finished with shellac.

1 Comment
2024/04/14
23:26 UTC

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Oak heartwood wand with India Ink

The idea I was attempting was a rough "boney finger" idea after the heartwood started looking like this anyways. It's covered in India Ink and shellaced over.

0 Comments
2024/04/11
19:18 UTC

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Hand-made from a salvaged couch beam, covered with Iron ink and shellac

The ink is made from a dissolved buy-back AR-15. I'm still working on figuring out what type of wood this is.

0 Comments
2024/04/11
19:16 UTC

19

Basswood wand for a friend

Idk if I should add more or maybe stain the handle

3 Comments
2024/04/10
17:46 UTC

25

Natural curly-hazel wand and a turned hazel wand with rattle ring

1 Comment
2024/04/08
19:12 UTC

42

Alder Wand

This Wiccan style wand measures 13 inches, hand carved and finished with an emerald stain and shellac.

0 Comments
2024/04/07
01:15 UTC

11

Hay guys

Hay I have a question so do any of you just get this need to make more wands and spend like 3 days doing nothing but make wands and other stuff like that or is it just me

5 Comments
2024/04/06
20:43 UTC

52

Red gum wand

This red gum wand measures 15 1/4 inches. So solid and durable it should last a few generations to come!

0 Comments
2024/04/05
06:10 UTC

58

A little bit late, but here is my Easter-inspired wand. Maple, ebony, padauk. 14”

For some reason the maple in the egg got darker as I polished it. Still pretty pleased with it though!

8 Comments
2024/04/04
00:56 UTC

30

Gift for niece: Hazel wand with rattle ring, and a natural hedge wand. The hazel wand has a hollow core, ready for an insert - and perhaps an amber tip..

2 Comments
2024/04/02
20:14 UTC

22

Maple 12 inches 2nd carved wand really happy with this so far.

0 Comments
2024/04/01
21:01 UTC

20

Question: Can anyone define what wood wand this is?

I’m thinking of making this my main wand, but it looks strangely out of place, from where I found it. Currently, my research points to it being an English Oak, but I found it in an All-Pine tree park. Yes, I know that’s the least odd thing, given that it’s over 24 inches (that rule alone is 18 inches long), and it’s incredibly curvy & spiraled in nature. I still want to use it.

5 Comments
2024/04/01
16:40 UTC

39

11 inches plum first real carved wand I made :)

2 Comments
2024/03/31
18:47 UTC

62

Tasmanian Acacia (Blackwood)

This wand measures 14 1/2 inches and has been finished with shellac

0 Comments
2024/03/31
01:18 UTC

4

Whare to find do I find them

Hay I'm looking for Drawer knobs anyone know where to look?

6 Comments
2024/03/26
21:18 UTC

155

Gabon Ebony Wands

Here’s a shot of a few ebony wands I made a couple of months back. All measure around 14 inches, highly polished then finished with a coat of shellac.

8 Comments
2024/03/25
01:52 UTC

61

First wand in a long time

Haven’t turned in a while so I chose this simple wand. I like how it turned out! Beech turns nice.

2 Comments
2024/03/24
19:05 UTC

3

How rare would a Phoenix Feather/Pine Wood combination with 13 inches of length and rigid flexibility?

4 Comments
2024/03/23
00:11 UTC

9

Atypical Wand Handle

Could a wands handle be made out of the "core material" if it was large enough? For reference I am thinking of a huge fang/tooth or something like that. Like the handle is completely made of the tooth and the wood of the wand is fitted into a slot carved into the tooth. Would that be logical or work canonical?

5 Comments
2024/03/22
01:47 UTC

6

Too similar? Wand designs and copyright

I had a wand made from a design I saw online. Do you think they are too similar? Mine is in the yellow ( osage orange).

https://preview.redd.it/lbjn9ec96spc1.jpg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36d10c2fe6ebf6a1207d45899cb320ca2097fee4

mine. Osage Orange

10 Comments
2024/03/22
00:30 UTC

8

Exotic Cores

I have been asked by a friend to make a custom wand for her but she wants a non-standard/canon exotic wand core. She wants to say her wand has a liquid basilisk venom core which I think is a cool concept. I want to make a plaque for the wand and wondered what sort of properties would you say a core of liquid basilisk venom would have?

10 Comments
2024/03/21
15:35 UTC

26

12 inch Poplar Wand

Made of poplar and measuring 12 inches. This wand was inspired by the wands on Pottermore. It’s more crude and made to look well traveled. Made using only a whittling knife. Any thoughts?

0 Comments
2024/03/19
21:06 UTC

49

Old school wands

? It’s been a while

1 Comment
2024/03/19
07:20 UTC

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