Making of the "Buchanan Rum Bottle" - Part Two

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Hello, beautiful people of the internet!

In case you missed it, be sure to check out part one of this "how-to",
here: https://peakd.com/hive-130560/@gamemapmaker/making-of-buchanan-rum-bottle-part-one

Thanks for all the love i received on the first part, as well!
Hope everybody's been enjoying themselves.

Now, onto part two!

On this part two, i will be finishing up the bottle's wooden base, where the bottle will resting on; carving, filling, sanding, gluing, varnishing.
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Along with the custom built workbench, another of my custom apparatus; the "bed-foot-chisel".
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An extra bed foot i had lying around, with a mini chisel blade tightly secured.

First thing to do is cleaning the tools.
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If the fille is full of saw dust like this, it won't fille as well, and you're doing more work that you need to.

I use boiling hot water and dip the filles into it for a few seconds, until the wood comes loose.
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Then, it's a quick dry with the hair dryper, and they're ready to go - give or take a few toothpick scrapes to remove the toughest dust.

Let's get carving.
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Easy enough - just carving above the markings on the wood (done in Part One), being careful with how much wood i take away at a time. Trying to carve out big pieces can crack the wood, potentially turning this piece unusable.

Thin chipaways; Better safe than sorry.
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Some horizontal chizelin.
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And the pieces are roughly carved, with little wood left to remove with the fille.
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Humm..shavings..
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Are they good enough for the collection?
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Nah..

Alright! Let's move onto the next step!

Make no mistake: having a vise is a must if you do any work with wood and you want to increase your work speed by, i'd say, a thousand percent!

This vise i got from my now-long-deceased-grandfather's workshop where it was sitting, along with a few of other rusty tools for some decade now. It's not in a pretty state, but that doesn't matter. It helps the work move on much quicker, and that's the only thing that matters!

So, firmly secured wood, check!

A bit of filling..
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..and some carving..
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.. some professionaly angled chiseling..
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..and finally sanding.
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A quick detour about sanding small pieces of wood; You wanna wrap the sand paper around something that is not maleable.

Look at the different outcomes; one straight face:
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Sanding using your finger..
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..creates a nasty rounded face.
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So, use a piece of wood and wrap the sandpaper around it.
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Enough fluffing around! Back to work.

The pieces are now very close to their final form.
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Now that the pieces are nearly finalized, the most important thing is to keep all angles at a right angle, along with keeping the bottle at a 90º angle, when resting on the base.

So, the rest of the necessary carving and sanding with be done by eye, instead of following measurements, to ensure these right angles; the measurements are now super tiny, and doing the rest by eye gets an acceptable result.

Let's get rid of that fugly surface now; It's time!
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Is it just me, or do these pictures with the sandpaper have an old or vintage photography look to them? Especially the sandpaper on the left, there!
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Looking a bit better, but not so much.
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Yeah, i shoulda taken a second look at the plank i used - this one is pretty beat up. More sanding might help a bit, but there are some deep scrathes, so i don't know.

For the purpose of this "how-to", it's fine!

Moving along, i start checking if the bottle already fits into the wood and how leveled the corner supports are.
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A few minor adjustments with the chisel.
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And a bit of sanding.

The sanding now is done with a loose piece of sandpaper, to be able to reach the corners well.
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A few adjustments later, i can start fitting both pieces together.
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To join them together, i carve one of the pieces on the top-side, and the other on the bottom-side.
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That's just the way it is for these joints.
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Using the vise and the squared-face fille, i can "cut" deep into each piece quicker than using the chisel.

And as luck has it, the width of the chisel's face is a near exact measurement as the thickness of these planks, so it's just a matter of filling away.
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Now, with them fitted, i mark out a square in the center, to create a... downward thing. I don't know all the terms.
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What i do know is the reason for cutting out that little dimple in the center, and that is to accommodate the chains that go under the bottle. You can see this much later on, when i place the finished bottle onto the base.
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Everything's fitting into place - bring out the glue!
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There's no need for much. There's hardly going to be any stress on the joint.
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A little bit more "guilty-pleasure", ASMR, right angle carving, while the glue dries a bit.
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And some more sanding to try and remove those deeper marks on the surface.
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With the glue now dry, i align the bottom of the feet, so it rests perfectly flat, and doesn't jiggle about when putting the bottle on it.
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Time to fit the ropes.
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The best way to glue any rope is to mush up one of it ends. You can then easily squash all the loose strands, flat onto a surface.
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Like so.
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Picture's not great, but the strands are all squached into the corner, so when i roll the rope around a first time, and over this initial area, the rope doesn't create a noticeable bump.

The darker grains of the wood on the top is the liquid silicone i layed down, seeping into the wood. Liquid silicone glues up pretty nicely, i must say!

So, now, just a quick wrap-around of the rope, making sure it goes around in a straight fashion.
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I cut the excess rope and glue the end, all mushed up again, to the underside of the base.
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All done.
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And the bottle resting properly on the corners, at a near perfect 90º angle.
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All that's left now is to add a very light coat of varnish, just to protect the wood and give it a bit of a shine.
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Letting it dry for just a few dozen seconds before rubbing it down / removing any excess varnish.
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A final sanding with the thinest of papers to create a smooth surface, and voilá, the base is completed.
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Here's another i had made, with some different patterns.
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There's definitly a lot of patterns you'll find in these planks - it's just a matter of taking a look at what part of the planks those most interesting patterns are, and carve the pieces out from there.

Well, that's part two!

I hope you enjoyed the process! It's fun to work with these planks, making these little bases, but now i'll be moving onto the bottle itself. This is just the base, and it's pointless without the rum bottle "trophy", sitting atop.

I hope you enjoyed reading through!
See you in part three! :)



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thanks for sharing once again, such a detailed post!!
here's another slice of !PIZZA for this amazing content!
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