This is one of those tools that I'd really rather not own, but okay. If you've seen some of the old videos, you remember we made the wooden rings out of veneer, and a lot of you have tried that and they came out really well. But some of

you commented that you had a lot of trouble getting the wood to bend to make the ring. So in this video, we're going to use this wood ID kit. This was the one, if you remember, sent to us from Sour's Veneer. This is 50 different sheets of

veneer. Some of them are the same species, just cut differently, and a lot of these are exotic woods. So this is going to be a really good test of which woods can bend well. Now, this kit, I wouldn't recommend for making wood rings just because it's a little shorter than what

I'd like. Let's see, it's 9 inches by 4 inches, and that's just like the minimum amount you can use to make a ring. I like a little bit extra, so the bigger sheets are good. And I'll put links to all this

stuff in the description. But you can see here, this is what's included in the kit, and there's so many that I'm not going to show each one in detail. We're just going to skip through, but we're going to find out which one of these work really

good, which ones are moderate, and which ones just to totally avoid. So if you do want to make these rings, be sure to check out the PDFs that are included in the last video, also in this new PDF for this video. I'm going to show something

called Janka, and it's the Janka hardness of the wood. How they measure the hardness of woods is that they take a steel bearing, about 1/2 inch, they come down on it with a press, and however many pounds of pressure it takes to embed this

bearing halfway into the wood, that's the hardness of the wood. So when you see Janka on the PDF, the higher the number, the harder that wood is. You, you all right. We're going to start gluing these together, but before I do, I thought

I'd mention this is the glue I'm going to use. You can find it on Amazon. I'll put a link to it in the description. Also, instead of packing tape, I'm going to try wax paper around a socket because I think it will release

the rings a bit better. So this will be just like the last time, we're going to skim through this and see which rings turn out the best. So here's a tip: It's always good to wear gloves when you're doing this. It's going

to be super, super careful not to get it on your hands. Also, when you're pushing this socket out or whatever you used inside the ring, do not stick your finger in the ring right away because that superglue is probably still wet inside, and now you just superglued a ring onto

your finger. That's going to be a bad day. Okay. Well, we finished all the rings, and they came out really neat, and I have a lot of stuff I want to share with you about those, but before we get into that, I wanted to read this viewer mail. This

This is from Mr. J and he's got several questions, so I'm going to read those and then show you how to make a ring really quick, without a lot of detail, kind of the Cliff's Notes version. But he says, first, when you sand one end of the wood,

which end is it going to be when it comes to rolling it into the socket? Have you noticed which woods are best? So we're doing that now. I've made about 10 rings using different woods and seem to have the same issue. They usually

split at the ends. Third, what type of cloth should I use? And he's talking about, you put the finished coat on, where do I get it for the polishing? And finally, so I guess is it for where did you get the type of blue you use? The

lock type I'm using is watery, however it's not penetrating very well or drying quickly and it is the only type I've been able to find. Thanks, love the videos and can't wait to really finish my first ring. All right, so let's go through a

making a ring really quick now. If you haven't seen the other videos, I have a full really long tutorial on how to make wood rings and I show how to do the brass inlay. It's full in depth. I've made a few changes on how I've got it

since then, so this will be helpful for you guys as well, and you can apply these new techniques. So let me get the camera real close here, and we're not going to make a ring, I'm just going to talk about it really fast. Okay, so the first thing you do is you

Get one of your veneer sheets, and you can find out where to buy this in the description. You're going to slice a section just a bit bigger than you want your ring, so then you have your strip of wood like this. You're going to curl it

into a cup with a bit of water at the bottom. Microwave it until it comes to a boil. I just cut a piece of wax paper, and this came off the, you know, this is the back of a sticker that wraps around the socket like that, and then you curl your

wood around that, and you do it pretty tight. And I just put, putting it right on here on top of the lamp because it gets hot, and these dry really quick like that. So what you do now, like this, you're going to take off the rubber band and

keep it on that same socket. Before, I used to roll it on a smaller one. Then, you're going to compress it by rolling it against this curl. Oh, and you had a question about sanding it. Yeah, so if you're going to sand the edge of this on

sandpaper like that to get it tapered really smooth, it just kind of helps so you don't have as much work on the inside of the ring when you want to get rid of that lip. That's all. So when you roll it, if you're going to sand it first

into a taper, that's the end you roll first. Okay, so compress it by rolling and pressing down on the glass like that. Then, hold it really tight, and then put on some superglue, just enough to secure it, okay, and make it just hold, so it's

not going to unravel, but you don't want to flood it and then you're going to pop it off. And this is the superglue that I use again. It's in the description, and it works really well. Now, you had a question about polishing, so let's do one right

now. And some pen turners have contacted me and said, hey, you know, this is pretty good. We just use paper towels or you can get these automotive towels. And I just went to an auto parts store and they have two kinds, one's a dollar more, and this

stuff is has less lint to it. So keep the wax paper on. See if I can fit it there. We go like that. And then you're going to want to hold it. I'm going to put some superglue on the end of here. And again, you can just use a

paper towel and you're going to want to go quick and rub it on. Don't hold it. Always keep it in motion. And that's it. And that will help for the outside. To get the inside and the edges, you can take this off once it's dry. Oh, was I

even on camera. Darn it. So here's another thing you need to know: Don't use the same spot. So just kind of fold it over and get a fresh part here. Soak it like that, just enough to last. And then you can do another coating and

turn it and wipe anyway. There's a lot of people making pens. If you want to watch those videos, pen turning, they might have some better tips for doing a finish. So there's a couple giveaways, last video and this is the the first one. This was the coping saw from Bane Good, and I went

through all the comments and we picked a winner, it is Zelda fan and I think your name is Brendan, so congratulations on that. Send me your address and I'll get that to you. Also, the ring, if you could guess the message that was written on this ring, so we had a lot of you guys

that entered that, but the winner - this one is f17 Flo from France, congratulations! And the message on it was 'It's a secret' to everybody, but there's actually three others that came in right behind you so close that I felt I should probably give you guys one too.

So I'm going to make another ring for you guys with the Triforce, but I won't put all the writing on it because that actually took a long time to do, but the three of you were Killian from Munich, congratulations. Garrett from San Jose, California, 

congratulations, my hometown! And let's see, also Leonard from Germany as well, a couple from Germany. So congratulations you guys, you all got it. I'll mail those out to you. What else? Oh, duh, the rings! So we'll start with this one here, this is fumed red gum from

Australia, and I really like this. Got a really neat kind of chocolatey look if you cut your veneer, and it's got all these patterns in it. You might want to follow the pattern, follow the stripe otherwise you can see how this stripe goes and curls up and then stops. See the

patterns interrupted, so you can kind of see the same. If that bothers you, here's a something interesting, fumed red gum. The fumed is like a chemical process that they do to alter the color of the wood. If you look over here to this one, that's just straight red gum, so that's

what the wood did look like before they treated it and that's not a stain that's the color of the grain if you do a lot of sanding it's going to be that color all the way through so I really like that it's really made a really nice ring

okay birch great worked fine really solid ring this is one of my favorites Mozambique now this did not roll well this was really hard there's actually no polish on this at all I didn't put any glue or anything on this but this sands really nicely and you can

get it to shine up without anything but you should still seal this with some glue when you roll this it's going to kink and crack but I actually don't mind that in fact I don't know if you can tell there was a crack a big long one it

and the whole thing kind of slivered up but I really really like this one because it's super rough looking it's not totally symmetrical it's got some straight edges so if you want like a really rustic nice looking ring I do that it's going to be really hard to

roll but just go with it don't fight it too much try to make it perfect this is my other favorite one also from Africa zebrawood I just really like this I'll probably wear it I really don't wear rings much but this is really cool I really like that one so

those are my two favorites probably out of all these maple there's a lot of maple in here it's a hard wood it's light so it works well in the laser burner here's another one of my favorites walnut always comes out nice I

like the color of it, burlwood. You get all this crazy wood grain and again, don't fight it, it kind of makes for a neat looking ring. You can see those parts that are missing, you know, I think that's really neat, gives it a lot of character. I'm going to make a

very detailed PDF with all these little notes, but I just want to skim through some of my favorites here. This is another burl wood, so if I'm cutting a strip of this, I'll probably try to get some of the more interesting parts, you know, most of it's going to be covered up

so you're really only going to be exposing the last bit of the roll. It's a nice wood. Let's see, beach, beach worked really well. It has such an even pattern to it. This one was really cool, super easy to roll like paper, and man, it

just looks so clean, so nice. This pear wood, rosewood. I like the color of it, I like the stripes, it's a nice wood there, but again, look at the PDF and find out which ones are going to give you trouble rolling it, you know, and again, don't

fight it, make a ring that's not perfectly straight, you know, got a few cracks or kinks in it, it's okay. Ash is a hardwood, make baseball bats out of that. Another burl wood, this one's, this one's kind of boring because I didn't pick up

anything more interesting pattern, so you might want to consider that. This is send from Japan, that worked out fine. Mahogany is nice, it's a bit tough. This one's from South America. Red oak is a super tough wood, and this one rolls a lot easier than the white oak for some reason.

another maple of this one and brojo maple check this out so ambrosia is just you know it's any maple can be ambrosia maple you see these holes there that's I think it's a beetle they got in there and it brings in a bacteria or some sort

of fungus or something that discolors the wood so that's what that means so ambrosia means it's been discolored by that invasion they're mahogany good teak this one came out really nice takes a good ring I like that one a pine is terrible don't use

pine it's too soft most of these rings I can't crush with my hand I could crush pine cherry was good wood bird's-eye maple they all work let's wrap this up so I hope I didn't leave anything out I feel a little bit

pressed because I got so much going on this week but I want to hurry up and get this video out for you guys I'll probably put pictures on either Google+ or Facebook or both so you can see all these close up so you know with more

detail that way you're not just relying on the video that you saw here thanks for supporting me in this channel if you do like this video please give it a thumbs up and you might think it's insignificant but it really does help the videos and of course if you do like

it please think about sharing it because that really helps as well I'll make more of these I have some more ideas for rings we'll do some fancier things in the future check out the other ring videos if you do want to make these because there's a

lot of details and then making it so that I didn't cover here anyway that's going to do it guys I'll see you next time hopefully it's really soon my goal is to make one video a week at least so I'm trying to change things in my life to

give me more time to be able to do this so thanks for all the comments and support it's been a lot of fun so far and I'll keep doing these so take care guys we'll see you next time you

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