#wandmaking — Public Fediverse posts

Returned to my workbench recently, and tonight I finished sanding on the largest staff I've made yet-- it's an inch or two taller than I am (5 foot 11) and is as wide as a soda can at the head end.

I've decided I'm going to inscribe references to as much of the knowledge I've gained in my Druidic pursuits on its surface as possible. I'm hopeful I can do enough to submit images of it, with explanations, as my Druidic review to formally finish the grade with OBOD.

#woodworking #wandmaking #staff #druid

Nothing like crunch time to get you feeling creative, I guess! This one isn't for sale at tomorrow's event, but is a personal piece I've long wanted to make.

Back in my days on the psychic fair circuit, I usually wore a black beret-ish cap and a brown fringed smock, which would often draw remarks from folks I'd gotten to know over the years of looking like an art teacher. One of these in particular, after I first started making my wands available for sale, told me I should make some kind of wand or staff to look like a paintbrush. I loved the idea and have been waiting for the right piece of wood to come off the sander.

Today, it happened. The result:

(And hey, maybe pics forthcoming of this so-called Artist ensemble.)

#paintbrush #wand #wandmaking #woodworking #woodcarving #woodburning #pyrography

Another wand from last night's shift at the woodburner! This one has renditions of the Big and Little Dipper (not bad if I do say so myself). The runes are meant to say "True North," which is what the Dippers can help to find.

Polaris, the current North Star, can be found in the Little Dipper's handle.

#wandmaking #BigDipper #LittleDipper #astrology #astronomy #constellations #woodburning #pyrography

Made a new wand for LTOTL (only 9ish days away now)! I wasn't really sure what to burn into it at first, but when I saw the comma and then the period at opposite ends, I sat to consider their significance.

There are two parts of your life: the circumstances of your birth and what you do with them. The thing that separates them? The comma. "Born in Nowhere, MO into a family blah blah blah, Person went on to..."

Everything after the comma is yours to write. And what are acts of magic, if not attempts to take the quill of your story up for yourself?

WRITE YOUR SAGA.

#wand #wandmaking #woodburning #pyrography

Here, have a random picture of some wood that has somehow STILL not dried out enough to be worked.

*folds arms angrily*

#WoodShaming #woodworking #wandmaking

#AskMeAbout

- Druidry
- Wandmaking
- D&D (3.5 and newer)
- Divination (specifically runes, Tarot, and Ogham)
- Native American-style flute

#Druid #Druidry #wands #wandmaking #DungeonsAndDragons #runes #divination #flute #NASF #music

Indulge me in one last #wandpost for today, if you would, because I really dig the checkerboard pattern I burned into the handle of this one.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #pyrography #art #magecraft #bard #ovate #druid #Druidry #OBOD

The Finger of God.

Made of oak, and burned to look like... well, like a finger. There are several markings added to this, including a Valknot, a custom sigil, and (not pictured) the rays of Awen where the fingerprint would be.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #valknot #awen #druid #druidry #art

The Finger of God.

Made of oak, and burned to look like... well, like a finger. There are several markings added to this, including a Valknot, a custom sigil, and (not pictured) the rays of Awen where the fingerprint would be.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #valknot #awen #druid #druidry #art

The Finger of God.

Made of oak, and burned to look like... well, like a finger. There are several markings added to this, including a Valknot, a custom sigil, and (not pictured) the rays of Awen where the fingerprint would be.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #valknot #awen #druid #druidry #art

The Finger of God.

Made of oak, and burned to look like... well, like a finger. There are several markings added to this, including a Valknot, a custom sigil, and (not pictured) the rays of Awen where the fingerprint would be.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #valknot #awen #druid #druidry #art

More #wandposting ahead:

This is Talon, one of my very few maple wands and most favorite pieces. It's not my first attempt at recreating a real-life object on the shaft of one of my wands, but the feathers are among my best work so far, if I do say so myself.

The opposite side of this wand has "Talon" burned into it in the runes of the Elder Futhark.

(I've got this and a ton of others for sale. If you're interested, send me a DM.)

#woodworking #wandmaking #pyrography #art #talon #feather #wand #druid #druidry

This is from a few days ago, but I finally started trimming some of that stormfall I gathered on the full moon: 17 wands and four longer pieces so far! I have projects in mind for two of the latter already, but I'm not sure what I'll do with the others just yet.

There are still a ton of fallen branches to trim, I might be swimming in blanks come summer...

#woodworking #wandmaking #magecraft #bard #ovate #druid #OBOD #druidry

Feeling very like a #druid today: gathering wood that fell in a winter thunderstorm under the #FullMoon (albeit in daylight). I'll be able to turn out lots of wands once the weather gets warmer!

What are you doing to take advantage of the current phase (rest counts, too)?

#wandmaking #woodworking #druidry #OBOD

Here's the handle inscription, "ad astra," Latin for "to the stars." This appears on all three of the wands made from this one branch, and it's probably the closest thing the Grove has to a motto.

#woodworking #woodburning #pyrography #wandmaking #obod #ovate #druidry #runes

Another #pyrography toot:

This is the tip of a wand I recently finished. The runes are a transliteration of the words "May hope fly," one half of the call-and-response farewell of my Grove.

This particular wand is one of three I made from a fallen branch, one of many gifted to me by the twin black walnuts that grow behind my house and serve as my steadfast companions on my Druidic journey. My dear friends Rowan and Audrey wield the other two, and it's around the three of us that the nascent Grove first took shape.

#wandmaking #woodworking #woodburning #obod #ovate #druidry

This is my shillelagh. Years ago, I found it while on a walk in my local forest, its head charred from the lightning strike that had felled the oak it was once a limb of. I was still working through the Bardic grade at the time, and left the initial Ogham fews unconnected from each other, sensing that there were mysteries I had yet to witness that would inform the empty spaces.

Here, as I approach the end of my Ovate studies and prepare for the work of the final grade, I have completed the inscription, adding //// Straif and /// Ngetal, which represent adversity and cleansing respectively. 2022 taught me a lot about what I needed to let fall away to step into myself more completely, and now I can carry those lessons with me both literally and figuratively.

#ogham #druidry #ovate #obod #woodworking #pyrography #wandmaking

Take inspiration wherever you find it.

#awen #inspiration #druidry #ovate #obod #woodworking #wandmaking

#introduction part 2!

Some other things I enjoy and may post about are:
#hockey #redwings #poetry #writing #art #birds #trees #justice #gaming (especially Dungeons & Dragons) #pokemon #pyrography #wandmaking

Interests/skills I'm looking to develop include:
#gardening #parenting

Consider this part TBC!