part two
[ok] guys sorry for any wind noise. I don't have any wind protection on my microphone
Which is just on my phone?
Anyways the tools we're going to be using [to] do the actual like main carving part for the hook first one
I use is this chainsaw. It's like a circular Chainsaw blade
It's pretty dangerous, but it works really well, and it gets a lot [of] material off quickly
I picked this up at Harbor Freight for about
$30 and also everything that I show you all the tools and [everything] the paint and things like that. I'll link to
Everything in the description [yeah], so to start off with this one
This is what I use [to] do the bulk of the carving
Then I usually go back with this is a ceramic flat disc for a four and a half inch angle grinder
It's really good at smoothing out a lot of [the] marks that this that this one leaves
Oh yeah, this one comes apart too by the way you can do a lot [of] shaping with [it], [too]
[ok] first step of the carving process with the Angle grinder is
To basically bring everything down to the profile line or the black line of your design
So all of this wood all of these this wood
just going down and trying to make it level and even all the way across
once you have all
That done all the way around then you can start adding your contours and varying the thickness this way
Okay now on to the fun part
[going] to start shaping it what I'm going to do is basically just come out this at a 45 degree angle just
Take that corner off and you can see [already] did a little bit here
Just carve all the corners off and round it nice and smooth
See how it's pretty much the same thickness all the way down. I'm going to take this
narrow it and then slowly widen out as it gets to the fat part and
You can see I actually started already doing that here, but as I make it thinner this way, I will
[simultaneously] be rounding edges. This is where it turns into more wood sculpting
Alright once you're satisfied with the shape of it and the thickness all the way around
Then I usually move on to either hand sanding or I have this
Ryobi Corner cat with a pretty aggressive
Bit or grit you have a pretty aggressive grit Sandpaper Pad
I think this is an 80 and then I will just go [over] the whole piece moving it all out completely
progressing to finer grits [you] [can] see how
How narrow I got it there tapers up to the Pointy part?
tapers down
Just round it all the things off that I wanted
just a quick tip taking old belt Sander Belts and
Tearing them up into strips makes it really handy
To sand the areas that you can't get to with the sander and also like really
tight spots like that you can take
Part of a belt Sander roll it up tight and get it or just bend it [like] this and get it into those tight
Hard to get areas to get all the sanding done
Okay, that stuff that you guys all thought look like peanut butter that I was spreading on it is
Actually a Bondo wood filler this
I'm actually just going to be using a different type of the all-purpose putty I actually think it works a little better
But it's a [two-part]
It has a hardener and the actual putty
And you just mix them in the [ratio] that they tell you to mix them and then we're going to take one of these spreaders
and
Just spread [it] into all of these cracks. That's what I was doing was filling these gaps
That are left over from the rounded edges since they're two by fours
they have kind of a rounded edge that don't meet and
To fill those that's why I did that
No, peanut butter
All right now that the epoxy is cured. It is time for more sanding
Okay, all of that is sanded and this next step is optional. It's what I did on the original hook
[I] marked these lines because this is where the rope handle part will start and it's going to
Angle that way the rope is and then
angle this way overlapping
And if you just leave it the way it is the rope is going to be bumped up quite a bit
So what I do is carve away
down about I don't know maybe
Mmm quarter of an inch or so that way the rope will sit
More flush, maybe not perfectly flush
But it will be more on this level than being bumped up so big so let's do that
I'll do that for [both] sides
It's a little too windy to be doing this but I'm going to go ahead and put it [go-to] primer on it
Okay, I got all the designs Drawn the way
I did the original was I printed out a fairly good resolution image of the Hook and
I'll provide a link to the image. I use down in the description and freehand drew it on to the hook
Just like this this one. I just kind of looked at a few pictures online and just got creative okay?
[it] took me a little while to figure out actually what this is called
but this is the bit that I use to do the carving it's called a structured tooth tungsten carbide cutter and
I will also put a link to it. It does a good job at carving because it's very aggressive
it's got all those little spiky points coming off of it and
One thing when you're carving is when you're carving to lay
It down at a pretty severe angle if you do it like this
It's going to hit every grain every bit of grain
You know grain in the wood and it will make a bumpy or jagged line. Let's get to carving
all right, it is carved and
Primed and now it is time to put a coat of paint on I'm going to use this
and
Should look all nice and shiny
shiny