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 Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:42 pm
How do you get the stones into the branch?
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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:55 am
My friend did his with wire. so I'm not sure if everyone does it like that or not. try googling it. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:12 pm
shivanti How do you get the stones into the branch? I carved holes for them, and then just because I'm paranoid, I cheated a little, and glued them into the holes, just to be absolutely certain that they wouldn't fall out
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:29 am
not a bad idea, but wouldnt u want a wand to be as pure as possible ? sorry if im being a pain...
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:28 pm
Like I said, I cheated a little. ^_^; You can make a really snug fit, if you're careful, but it's just up to what you feel comfortable with. On my wand, you cannot see the glue, and it's only a tiny, tiny bit, but you could look into natural tree resins, maybe? I'm sure one of them would be suitable as a natural glue.
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:23 pm
mine belive it or not flew off the back of a logging truck and landed at my feet! its a really nice "S" curve but i guess its more of a staff and i put my little ankh on it and used organic ink to inscribe it with symbols.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:15 pm
O_o Wow, that's mighty spiffy... Congrats, hehe. whee
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:33 pm
thanks and it doubles as a cane when my leg or hip acts up.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:49 pm
Always handy. 3nodding
That means it must be a pretty big wand though.. xd Everyone's different!
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:39 am
If you have any skills or tools (non-magickally speaking) that would help with making a wand, that's good... But Just find a piece of wood (branch or something) that calls out or seems right... Try and give it a quartz tip or something if you can... other than that, do whatever you like... whether it's adding your birth stone or favourite crystal or anything.
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:41 am
I am a firm believer in super glue! Its not going to just stop doing what it was meant to do because of a few drops of glue.
I haven't decorated or even used my wand yet. I did burn a pentagram into the base. But I went to the coast in search of a stick for a friend and I found this stick that I knew I just had to take home with me. I sanded it down all smooth and then I used a paper clip and a lighter to blacken a pentagram into the handle. Its very thin so I don't see myself adding any gems to it. But I will probably burn more designs into it. And that always something you can do to yours as well, I have a wood burner now so things will be easier, but burning symbols that mean something to you.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:07 am
very nice
i recently made one as a gift for some pagan friends of mine.
i had a twisted stick that was shaped by a vine, i carved the runes int the spiral, added a quartz point to one end and a gold cage on the other with a green quartz in it and wrapped the handle in yellow leather.
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:29 pm
My wand was a gift at my first degree initiation, made in the 'traditional' way...
As a new growth on a hazel tree in the New Forest in England, it was wrapped tightly with fabric and allowed to grow for nine years. At sunrise the morning of the summer solstice, it was cut from the tree in a single slice, and then honed down and polish. The wrappings gave the handle a shape as if the branch had grown twisted...in a way I suppose it did. smile So it's a solid piece that looks like, at the handle, two branches wrapped around each other, basically. It's hard to desdribe, lol. Even better, it was chosen for me...and it wound up being exactly the length from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger! Talk about fate....
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:54 pm
i prefer making things for myself that way they have a little bit of you in them.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:41 am
Mine was given without me having to ask.
I was going to school one wednesday morning and there are a row of ash trees around my house. So I'm walking under one and thinking. "Hmm I'm gonna have to ask one of these trees for a wand one of these days"
I come back from school and just look under one tree, there it was; a long thin branch with no attachments. I was like "whoa" and picked it up, touched it and the extra lenght just snapped off. What I was left with is exactly the lenght from by elbow to the tip of my middle finger.
I haven't done much to it...but I've used it once just to make sure it's mine and not a coincidnce...awesomeness!!!!
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