Hey this is Shiraz Balolia from Grizzly Industrial. I'm the CEO,
founder, and owner of Grizzly. My wife and I decided to do some walking in the evenings
in our neighborhood. There's a lot of dogs, and so we decided, hey, why not have a couple of canes?
We don't need canes for walking, but it'd be good to have canes to fend off some
canines. So I figured I'd build them. So let's get into the build.
So what I've done is I've gone ahead and cut up pieces. There'll be two different canes. My
wife wanted a lighter cane for herself, and hers is going to finish off at about 33, 34 inches
overall height, or length, I should say, and mine's going to be around 37 and a half or so. I've got
pieces that are cut way longer than that. And so what I've done here, for her. So i've got curly koa,
curly maple, and the matching curly koa.
Over here I've got a piece of Delrin that's going to get epoxied and screwed in from the bottom.
I've got a piece of Macassar ebony that's going to be an accent piece in the middle,
and I've got the opposite theme happening here where I've got the curly maple, curly koa,
and curly maple. There's going to be a pin through here. I'm going to dowel that through in here.
I'll turn this on the lathe and you'll see me turning this just now. There'll be pins here,
you know, of wood going through so this will be epoxied and pinned. And then when I'm done with
it, and my wife likes the feel of it, this is not too thick, etc., then I will go ahead and round
all the corners over. So it will not be a round cane, but it'll look round because it's going to
be close to a small rectangle and then it will be rounded over on all four sides. It'll look great!
Well I'm laying out these pieces so we can epoxy them. I'm going to just rub them down with 100
grit sandpaper so that the epoxy adheres quite well to it. So just setting it up right now.
Once I got the epoxy on there, I'll take it to the edge of the bench here and put my clamps this way.
You can never have enough clamps. These clamps are the easiest to use.
Next I'm going to do the handles. And so we'll see you back when it's dry.
All right. So it's the next morning and the epoxy is dry. I went ahead and did my wife's cane here.
I sanded it all up and I'm going to go ahead and do mine. And I'll show you how I did that.
That came right off the wax paper. So I'm going to go ahead and take this to the edge sander. My
goal is to clean up one side completely flat and I'm going to run it through the planer, both sides,
and then run it through the wide belt sander, just to clean up the edges.
So a quick tip here. On the wide belt sander, you saw me put this at an angle. And the reason for
that is, if I put this in there it's going to use one track of the belt and eventually
you'll have, you know, it'll get burning marks, because that'll have too much sanding on that one
little inch. So this way it uses the whole belt evenly or as much as it can. As I feed it through
at an angle, obviously your pieces need to be long enough to do that. So we're at the
oscillating spindle sander and I've cleaned up, started to clean up, the edges here.
I did that on the disc sander. And now we're going to go in where this contours.
And it's a good idea to use this abrasive stick to clean the belt or clean the drum as you go along.
I have already epoxied the Macassar ebony to the top of the cane,
and I've attached the Delrin piece, epoxied on, and I also screwed it on so that
it never comes apart. Now some of you may be wondering that there might be some rocks and
pebbles that will get stuck in there, but not on my watch! We are going to cut a little plug
and plug this and epoxy that in here so it'll be flush you won't even know there's anything
in there. The trick now is to put this plug in straight. It can be crooked in any direction
so I'm gonna do this on the lathe. So let's go over to the lathe and do it.
Yep, looks good.
So it's all good. Okay, so we're going to pound this dowel in. I'm not going to put any glue in it.
There's going to be epoxy between this and the handle and then there'll be pins
on both sides, so it's going to be tight, so. Perfect! Easy! These little packets of
epoxy are available and I use them for small jobs. You don't want to mix up a big batch, so
they're disposable you just use a little bit and throw the rest away, if there's any left.
When it's dry I'm going to take a take it on the mill and just mill that square. You won't even
know it's there. So, use the my clamp jig here. You can see it's squeezing out, so that's a good fit.
So let's let this dry overnight.
So I went ahead and took off the clamp. It's all glued up
epoxied up. And I put it on the mill and cleaned off this. It looks like there's nothing ther,e
there's no insert. Remember there was an insert put in. I rounded off the edges, just on the handle,
just as a test to see if my wife likes it, and she loved it. I decided to go with brass pins.
And then at home I was looking around and I found these little abalone caps.
So I'm going to pin these and then I'm going to go on the milling machine and cut a spot face
and put these little abalones, so it'll look like, you know, it'll be a nice touch. It will be capped
off and it'll look very rich. One of the things that happens. I'm going to be using CA glue and one
of the things that happens with CA glue is that it penetrates the wood, and when you go to finish
it, you can see a dark patch around your insert. And so that's, we want to avoid that. So in order
to do that, I use a sanding sealer. Just brush the setting sealer over so that when you put
the CA glue on here, it is not going to penetrate the wood. And then I'll just drop this in.
Tap that in.
Okay, so I've got these things where I can go ahead and
do the final finishing touches of machining them down.
So now my next job is going to be to run this through the wide belt sander, just to kiss it
a little bit. There's a couple of wormholes in here that I'm going to fill in before I finish.
So I'm going to kiss this, clean it up on the wide belt sander on both sides. Both of them.
And then I'm going to take it over to the shaper where I got the router bit in there,
round over, and I'm going to round over the whole thing.
This little Delrin piece is good, I mean, it looks flat and everything, but sometimes you need, you
need some friction. And so we have a 3D printer here, so we're going to go ahead and make a 3D
rubber cap that's going to fit exactly over this thing. And that'll be the last thing we do.
So both canes are complete. I've rounded them over, all over. They've been sanded down to 600 grit,
they're ready to be finished now with oil. So what i'm going to do is next, is because there's
still some fine dust on this, I'm going to take naphtha and remove the fine sawdust that's going
to be still stuck to it before I oil it. Because I don't want any of that oil going on to the dust.
You also get an idea of what this is going to look like when i oil it. So naphtha is going
to evaporate and this will be bare wood when I'm done. It gets all that fine sawdust off.
I'm using Ben Matte and you got to be a little liberal with that,
because you're going to wipe it off when it's done. This is, whoa,
you can see that that figure is just killer figure. My goal with this is to put a coat on,
wait three or four hours, you know, I'll wipe it off, the excess, wait three or four hours,
do another coat of oil, wipe it off, come back maybe tomorrow or the next day
and put another coat of oil, and then I will sand it in with 600 grit wet and dry sandpaper,
so it will fill all the pores at the same time as it's oiling. It'll harden.
Now I'll do that twice, and then I'll finish off with some wax, and it'll look really nice. And
it won't be super gloss, but it'll be very finely finished, like a piece of furniture.
So now you know the finish process on this. I'll see you when we wrap this project up.
So the two canes are finished. I finally completed them. They are buffed and waxed,
and all that. They're very smooth finished to 600 grit. When I started this project,
there was nothing that I liked out there that I could just buy, so I decided to go ahead
and build something. They actually turned out better than I expected. I'd never made anything
like this before, but I think they turned out very nice. I'm very happy with them. I really
appreciate you following along with this build. I hope you can build something for yourself!
...in dimensions, and it's heavier, so if any big German shepherd comes at me,
here's the cane, baby!
All right you're not gonna put that in are you?