Make Candle Holders From Scraps

Hey folks. What's happening in the live stream Facebook world today? How are things? It's always funny when we start these, when I start these, because there's nobody there. When we do this, you know what I mean? When we do this live, what Facebook does, whatever it does they send out a notification I guess, and it says we're going live. But in these first couple minutes of this during the live portion, there are zero eyeballs until it kinda ramps up a little bit. So for those of you that wonder why I sit here and chat the first couple of minutes. That's why I sit here and chat the first couple of minutes and talk about Wisconsin weather and other stuff is because it takes a little bit for this to ramp up. So today's Wisconsin weather report, I'm looking out the window sunny, but cool. I think it was 42 when I walked to the shop this mornin'. So it's a little bit, it's a little bit chilly. James is watchin' from Aurora, Illinois. I know where that is. In my youth, when we would drive through Aurora, my sisters would always say it was the home of a great turkey massacre where, like the turkeys turned on their owner. And I think, I think that's the suburb they used to pick on. So whether that's true or not I don't know, you know, urban legend. I was five. So I don't know if there really was a Turkey massacre in Aurora, Illinois, or not Scraps to projects. This is actually, this is actually video number three in this agenda. And here's, what's goin' on. Look in the description. 'Cause there's stuff there. One of the things, or two of the things there, are links to other Facebook lives where I made a coaster, which I should have had sitting here. I could get one. And then also we did shavings to fire starters. So when you look in the description for this live today those links are there. Sun Prairie. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin? That's not far away and Bethpage, Tennessee. What a cool name for a town. So the other thing that's there is a link to a PDF. Pretty darn fine. On that PDF is a template. And it's not gonna be reversed when you print yours, it's reversed because of the way my iPad is configured. So when you go to that link and get this PDF it's gonna give you the shape you need in order to make these. The other thing that's in the description is the size of blank you need. And we're gonna talk about, different blank options here, a bunch in a second. but the bottom line is 1 1/2 by 2 1/8 by seven inches long is what we're lookin' for, for that. So whether it's a solid piece or a glue up we're gonna look at both. That's the size chunk you need. So then the other thing in the description is, are a link for these, 'cause for this candle holder, it's designed for these tea light or votive candles to go into. So there's nothing super idiosyncratic about it, except the diameter of that base, and that hole that I drill will fit into the 2 1/8 width that we have here. So if you use different lights, if you use different candles, then you could also change the size of the hole, and you could change the width of your candle holder. But if you want to stick with this, you can get these on Amazon, what a surprise. And then, again, you need the template, the pattern so that you can cut the shape. And then what I did with mine, that's a piece of cardboard. So I use that shape that I printed on the PDF. And then I cut a piece of cardboard to that shape because it's easier to trace than a piece of that really thin paper. All right, I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get my own fake, let me get my phone. 'Cause it looks like a lot of commentary and it's easier if I look at it on my phone than it is on that thing. Let me get there. I thought I was there. Yeah, I don't wanna hear myself. All right, ready? Here's the deal. Let me show you, I'm gonna move the camera in and I think I'm gonna turn it around so I can show you different. I'm gonna show you a bunch of end results, and then we'll work backwards to getting there. Oh, where's my thing. All right. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. All right. So leap of faith here 'cause I am now going on the other side of the iPad. So I think I have this framed right. So let's do end results first. They're all the same shape. They're all the same size. This is soft maple with a walnut stripe in it. This is maple. There's no glue up here. So this was a piece of eight-quarter maple I had, that is just cut from one, so the candle holder's cut from one solid piece. This one is rosewood. Same deal, no glue up, all cut from one solid chunk. Let's do this one next. So we, if you remember our end grain coasters, this is cut from I'll show you the blank. This is cut from a leftover piece from the end grain coasters, a little bit different look. And then this one is a glue up. So see all the stripes, it was glued up this way. And then if you look at it this way, what you see there that's another little off cut from the coaster project. So the bottom line is you can do this a bunch of different ways. If you've got a bunch of little pieces if you've got a bunch of small stuff you can glue 'em up to make a stack, so the piece is big enough, or if you've got larger scrap, and I intentionally stuck with an inch and a half thickness here because that's such a prevailing number. You know, if you glue two 3/4 inch pieces together, you get an inch and a half. Having an inch and a half stock in your shop isn't that uncommon. A two-by-six is an inch and a half thick. So I figured that would make this accessible. All right. Now, blanks. Let me check my, let me check my framing again. We'll do this one first. Hello, Allie from Hawaii. So remember, or if you've not seen it yet you can go back and look at the, at the coaster video. This was part of the blank from when we made coasters. So to get this look, what I did on this, is I cut the blank from this on an angle. So not this way, but this way, cut it on the bias. And that's why on this one, all the stripes are running on an angle across here. So I'm just trying to show you a bunch of different options here so that when you're a fiddling around with this, you can get you can get different looks in your own shop. So on this one, my inch and a half comes from the dimension in this direction. The 2 1/2 is going to come this way, but that rectangle, 2 1/2 by seven is gonna get cut out at an angle across this block. Then. This one is what resulted in this one. This is just maple with a walnut stripe, and then another little piece of maple, giving us that same look that I got there. This one, this is the one we're gonna work on today. Thin piece, thin piece, thin piece, thin piece, all glued up in layers, and that resulted in one. They're not identical because I don't have that stripe in there, but they're identical this way because of the stripes going in that direction. So step one, my young friends is to get a blank or two. I would, this is a great project, as are many, for, I'm flipping around again, for making, for batching these. I would make, I would just set up to do three or four, or five of 'em at a time 'cause it goes really fast. Once you're going, it goes really fast. All right, let me look for . Yeah, Brent, we're makin' a candle holder. I guess it could be a really small ashtray but who needs ashtrays? Who smokes? All right. So step one is, produce your blank. Again, dimensions and sources are in the description. So you need to get the PDF, that's in the description, the link for that's in the description. That'll get you the shape. The dimension of the block is in the description but it's 1 1/2 by 2 1/8, by seven. The link for the candles is in the description and also the links for the other scrap to projects, videos I've already done. All right, once you have your blank, mark out the center of it on what's gonna be the top face. We're gonna drill a hole in this. So it's easiest, not easiest. It's really a must. If you mark that center location out before you do any shaping and we're gonna do the drilling before we do the curve. So let's do, let me think a second. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna trace the curve on while we're here, but we're not gonna cut it yet. Somebody should have brought a pencil to the game. So like I mentioned earlier, I took that paper template and I put it on a piece of cardboard, because cardboard is so much easier to trace. Even with the bottom. Trace. All right. That's just so that we don't have to come back to the workbench between steps. We're doing, we're doing a lot of moving from tool to tool today. So I'm eliminating a move. Center and then I used a scratch all and I dimpled that, trace the shape. Now we're gonna go do boring stuff which is we're gonna go to the drill press. Gotta store my phone. Get this back in the right spot. Head for the drill press. This is where you get car sick. For the particular candle that we're using, I need an inch and 7/8 hole. So my mom is watching again. Isn't that nice? My mom in the Chicagoland area watching our Facebook lives. That's cool. Inch and 7/8 forstner bit, so that we get a recess. that's right for this. 3/8 of an inch deep. The 3/8 inch deep isn't uber critical. It's somewhere around a quarter or 3/8. You're gonna be fine. We just want enough of a recess there that the candle is gonna stay engaged. I've already got my stop set. Done. That gives us the recess. And like I said, you do, you wanna do this while we're still rectangular. Don't do the shaping first. Do the boring first. All right then from here. Bandsaw. And a little adjustment. Sorry about that. This is a 3/8, four TPI, four teeth per inch blade. You could be smaller, a quarter inch blade'd be fine. I probably wouldn't go to a 3/16 for this. I think that's too small. And then here, simple stuff. Cut the curve, staying on the waste side of the line. 'Cause we'll do some sanding. Cut the curve, cut the curve always on the waste side of the line. Ready? I'm actually gonna turn you around before I do this. No I, well, let's try it. Okay because I'd like to get you a little closer to the action. Yeah, that's a little better, huh? All right, here we go. I love breaks on bandsaws. All right. How'd that go? Well, sorry, Allie. I can't use a bandsaw as fast as the rest of, we all have our, we all have our weaknesses. All right. My castor was hung up there. Here's what we've got, a curve, and it's the right shape. But it's a little ugly because it's full of bandsaw marks. So we're gonna do two kinds of sanding here. We have an outside curve and an inside curve. So I'm gonna start on a belt sander and I'll flip you around for this again. And then we're gonna finish on a drum sander. So. That is my portable belt sander. And then I've just built that stand for it so I can use it as a stationary belt sander. That step's done. Walk this way, dropped your candle holder. Let me see what you see. I'll get you back there, Allie, on that stand. Let me do this part first. All right. Drum sander. Whoops. All right, at that point you're done, basically. What I did was I power sanded. So I did the belt sander and the drum sander. And then I used the random orbit sander with, oh, 220 grit paper on it. And just quickly went over everything. And I always round the edges just a little bit. And then these have just a top coat of rattle can lacquer. So very, but you're gonna wipe oil on 'em whatever you've got layin' around. All right, let me catch up on questions and I haven't forgotten Allie, we'll get back to the base for the sander. Michael says, "You can never have enough pencils". This is true. I feel like my comments aren't keeping up here on my own face. Did you come up with the idea for yourself or get it somewhere for the candle holder? No, I came up with that just from messin' around. Grid on the sanders. I don't know, probably one 120, 120, I think. 120, whatever it takes. A little pop culture reference there. It's actually 220, 221. Spindle sander drum sander, yeah, either one. Okay, the stand for the belt sander. So this is just idiosyncratic machine by machine. So you are on your own to make this for yours Sandra. This is a Bosch four by 24 belt sander. This gizmo back here receives the handle on the back like that. And then this stand on the front, piece of plywood, has a cutout in it, that's so that it's like a little kickstand for the front handle, and then a spring clamp does that. And then click it on and push the button, so it stays on and you're off to the races. On the bottom of it, there's a piece of wood and that lets me grab that device. Alternatively, I mean you could leave that off and just clamp this whole thing to a bench, just so long as you weigh it, yeah you just need a way to secure it. And then that fancy hole in the end is so I can hang it on a piece of pegboard when I'm not using it. Okay. Here's what we got. So even with, even with walking around the shop and moving the iPad around and explaining stuff to you what did it take me maybe 10 minutes to make this and that's even with talking? Realistically, drill press, bandsaw, sanders. These go really, really fast once you have the blocks made up. So I don't know. I think it's kinda cool to revisit a bunch of this stuff. Look in the description and in the description there's a link for this template for a PDF. And then as I've mentioned, once or twice, instead of trying to trace a piece of paper, you know cutting this out and tracing the paper I got that on a piece of cardboard. So it's easier to trace. The other thing in the description is the Amazon link for these candles that I'm using. And then the other thing in there, well the size of the block, inch and a half, 2 1/8, seven, that's in there. And then if you missed the previous scraps to projects videos on Facebook, the links are there for when we did shavings to fire starters. And it's that season, right, for sitting outside around a bonfire. So the fire starters link is in there. And then also the coasters that I did, I don't know, two or three weeks ago let me just grab one while I sort of have your attention. So this is the project from a couple of weeks ago. Like little, not like, they are, little grain coasters, and that link is up in the description as well. All right. Anything else? Bueller, mom, any smart comments from my mother? Johnny is watching from Belgium. Yeah Chris, we can talk, let's talk about the drag knife offline. I've learned a couple things since I bought the one I have. Max is watching. I know Max from Swaziland for my Peace Corps days. All right, folks, I'm gonna bug out of this and we'll see you in a week. So we're not, yeah, we're doing this weekly instead of bi-weekly. So a week from today, 11:00 AM in the morning, again. We're actually gonna make a holder, a storage spot for the coffee filters in your life. So that's gonna be next week's task. All right. See ya when I look at ya.