Hey guys welcome to the workshop.
My name is Dan Rees from www.ZebranoWoodCraft.com and in this video I'll show you how I made
this rad DIY wooden fidget spinner toy.
Spinner toys like this have become really popular recently and I have to admit they
are weirdly addictive to play with.
I wanted to make one for myself so I decided to use some scrap walnut, a few recycled skateboard
bearings and some kirinite to make this beauty and guess what?
It freakin' glows in the dark!
I've detailed to whole process for making this fidget spinner in this video and I've
included Ebay links to tools and materials that I used to make it happen.
You can support my channel by clicking through those links and making a purchase as I am
a member of the Ebay partner network.
Without further a do – let's make us a glow in the dark, DIY, wooden fidget spinner toy
thingy!
I started by cutting my walnut and kirinite slowly on the bandsaw then I sanded the faces
of my slices flat on the bench sanded to ensure a good fit on the glue up.
I made a sandwich of walnut and kirinite by gluing the pieces together with a thick super
glue.
After clamping the pieces together I cleaned off any excess glue with some paper towel
to prevent my clamps getting stuck to the wood!
I drew a template on graph paper and traced this on to my glued up blank using carbon
copy paper to transfer the design.
To drill the holes I used a 20mm paddle bit which was just a bit smaller than the diameter
of the bearings.
I had a lot of blow out on the back of the blank but wasn't too worried as I could clean
it up at a later stage.
Back on the bandsaw I roughly cut out the shape of my design and trimmed the edges to
width.
The holes were a bit small for the bearings at this stage so I used my trusty rotary tool
to enlarge them to 22mm in diameter.
Instead of using glue to keep the bearings in place I wanted a friction fit.
This meant I had to keep testing the size of the holes with my calipers and this took
quite a while to get just right.
When I was close to 22mm in diameter I switched to using sand paper to finish off the holes.
I did a test fit to see if the spinner would work, but unfortunately my friction fit was
a bit too accurate and I couldn't remove the bearings!
It was no big deal though I just proceeded with final shaping with the bearings left
in and the bench sander made easy work of it.
Before finishing I hand sanded the spinner working through progressively finer grits
until I'd reached 12,000 grit.
This left the piece smooth to the touch and evened out any tooling marks.
To clean the piece I scrubbed it with surgical spirit until it was dust free and applied
Jojoba oil to the wooden parts to finish it.
A bit of WD40 got the center bearing spinning freely and that was job done!
So that's it, thank you very much for watching!
I'm really happy with the way this one turned out, I know I made a few mistakes but that's
part of it's appeal!
I mean this was not made by a CNC machine or a 3d printer, it was made by a real fallable
human being (and that's me!).
All in all it's a fun and tactile toy that will serve it's purpose well (warts and all!).
Thanks again for watching you might enjoy some other videos from my channel such as
this one where I made this glow in the dark “Death Trooper Ring”.
Check out those Ebay links like I said and subscribe if you want more!