Rachele want to buy this Advent candleholder that I didn't think was pretty and it was also
expensive so I quickly designed something in Sketchup that would be fast to make and I've
printed out four copies of this and I'm gonna make that as four segments that I cut out like that and
I'll cut that out of a piece of two by six lumber I had previously planed a two by six flat so it's
a bit more precise than a regular two by six the parts didn't fit together entirely perfectly so
the next step was to use the belt sander to a flat and then square the joint surfaces
now it fits much better then I used my strip standards to remove the saw marks and smooth
the outside curves and the inside curves I used the round part of my belt sander if that couldn't
get all the curves so next step was to switch my strip sander or which are convex platen and
for that to have to take the table off there's taking the flat went off and putting a wooden
convex plating on and then putting a table back on and that way I can send the inside curves with
a strip sander and of course most people would use a spindle sander to send inside curves and
as you can see here you couldn't really get in there with a spindle sander either and now I
don't need the template anymore so tearing that off and chiseling off the rest of it and then
thinking that remains off with the belt sander now I need a good way of joining those pieces
together a butt joint glued might have worked but I just had to put a slot mortise into the ends
a biscuit joiner would have worked too I actually have a biscuit joiner part I don't have any
biscuits so slot mortars as it is now there's some darker square pieces that go on top of the
base and I'm cutting the edges of those with a bevel cut just to make it a little bit more fancy
that will cut this just by tilting advance on table and then clean those up on the belt sander
using the fully part as sort of a spindle sander that way I can get the inside curves
and this is how it all fits together but then I decided that ring was just
a little bit too bulky so I'm using scraps from my paper templates to
draw a curve on there and then I cut that out on the bandsaw
and then sanding a bevel on all the edges before I assemble it because
upwards assembled I wouldn't be able to get up there with my belt sander anymore
those lot margins are going to be joined with floating pen and here I'm sanding the edges of
that tenon around to fit in the slot mortises now that it fits paying the pieces to length
and then a dry foot before I glue it together I'm gluing together two pairs of pieces first
and those pairs don't fit together perfectly so I waited for the glue to dry and then set
it up a blot on the dull side the ornamental detail makes for an excellent place to attach
the clamps to when I checked how it all look together I decided I needed to trim that ring
a little bit more so the squares that are part of the ring I'm making those a little
bit shallower by making two cuts with the table saw and using a table saw sled to a jig that
there was a very slight step where the pieces joined so I'm using a belt sander
to smooth out it and I also sanded a top flat especially to make for a better blues
surface and that slider on the side is to catch me more of the sawdust with the best
collectors I used a Forstner bit to create a bigger shallow indentation in the upper
squares that's partially for decoration and partially in the catch wax drippings
and then a smaller hole in the middle and now I can finally glue all the pieces together and
after that it was the usual varnishing and sanding and varnishing again I didn't take
video just my time lapse camera captured it the holes I drilled were just a tiny
bit too small for the candles so I had this idea of making a candle resizer contraption
and clever as it was it didn't work perfectly although I was able to resize the candles to
fit into the holes and here it is all done it took about three hours of shop time plus
varnishing and I got it done in time but later I bought some cheap candles from a
dollar store and cut those shorter just to get a more horizontal thumbnail for YouTube