How to make a Wooden Water Bottle or Hip Flask for reenactment, steampunk, Larp or cosplay 

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Awesome!!! Finally a video without all the hype! TYVM

Excellent use of power tools. At one time I did pretty much everything by hand, but I am in a lot of pain and burned out most of the time now. I think you could just use the same procedure they use for kuska cups to treat it. Some initiate it into use with coffee, whiskey, and then what I have used after that is coconut oil. Tastes good , treats the wood, etc. Anyway, thanks for sharing, it is always nice to start the morning off with inspirational videos such as this one. Makes me want to have my first cup of coffee and let the wood chips fly!!! ;)

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Very Cool. Thanks

Great idea. I have most of that stuff laying around, just need to get food safe glue.

Very nice!

Great video & project !

Great! Now make it without glue. And yes it is possible.

awesome

Excellent job. Two questions: Which wood did you use and used something to seal on the inside or do not need?

where do you get such good bandsaw blades? Not home depot.

alright let's get right into it *screams of eternal damnation*

nice idea, but... Watter will absorb smells of glue and diy. Try to use natural capabilities to diy this flascs. How about borned wood? But the disign is too pretty.

I would have made the stopper plug and handle from one piece as I can just imagine the glue giving way and the plug stuck in the mouthpiece. Apart from that, a brilliant project.

nice product. I would recommend coating the insife with a food grade/safe polyurethane. especially if using pine because of pines natural resin. simple to do, just pour a little inside, spin the flask around to evenly coat then place nozzle side down and allow excess to drip out and the remainder will dry.

Love the build but I'm cautious about using glue for things that will come into contact with food or drink. They use metal rings for whiskey barrels to hold the wood together and the liquid expands the wood to make it water proof. Also, they only use white oak for spirits such as rum, whiskey and such. Maybe you could come up with something like metal staples or clasps that hold the wood together to age rums or whiskeys in. It's getting real popular to make very small whiskey bottles on youtube. Could you do something like that? Again, nice build!

You guys over think things way to much. If you are worried use brewers pitch. You melt it down pour it in turn the canteen over and around and every which way then dump out the excess. Let it cool down and your good to go

such a simple project. lol. They are very nice. But who has all that equipment? Do you sell them?

Don't you need to coat the inside with some sealant ?

Won't the water taste like wood sense the inside wasn't sealed?

To store whiskey in there..... Make it out of oak

Thank you for sharing. I am involved with a medieval style LARP, and I plan do try this out for that. I'm a hobby woodworker also, so this should be pretty simple for me to make.

They look beautiful. I loved the mini router table! Awesome job!

have you thought about coating the inside with melted bees wax?

For everyone concerned about drinking from bare wood, a period-correct coating is brewer's pitch: jas-townsend.com/brewers-pitch-p-373.html

"Thumbs up" for the whole video, but especially that router jig!

i would've nailed the sheets of wood to the ring after rubbing the area down with bees wax.

Look at original works of wood

It is beautiful, but, Can you really drink it? How to be sure that there is not glue on the inside? :P

I'll finally have a place to store my strawberry wine

When I make this sort of thing, as well as my leather flasks, I seal the interiors with molten brewer's resin, pour out the excess, and let cool while inverted. Later, still inverted on a foil-lined tray, I put them in a low-temp oven to melt out the rest of the excess. Sometimes, I repeat the process if a flask leaks.

Brilliant, I love it. I'm assuming the wood you used is pine, or Douglass fir? Did you waterproof the interior with anything?

i dont think im capable of making anything you showcase i just want you to know i love your videos

Choice of wood is a personal thing, but.. Avoid poisonous woods, OK? Seriously, don't do it. A number of tropical hardwoods are just not suitable. Check a wood database first, please. Oak has been used safely for barrels for millennia. BUT... There's 2 categories of oak: red oak and white oak. White oak is watertight, red is not. When in doubt, look at the end-grain with a magnifying glass first. www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/distinguishing-red-oak-from-white-oak/

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Miiight not be safe to drink from, the alcohol might soak the wood and leech some of the wood dye through into itself. Just a thought. Looks good though.

It does not need to be food safe, hygienic, or leak proof. The video title explains that. It's for reenactment or cosplay, not real usage.

For some time I have had a problem. How to cut the end of a cylinder true . To be used as a waterproof container in a model submarine, being to big to fit on my lathe . Using a sanding disc as shown here would work just right ! :-)

Awesome stuff, but 2 things 1 I would like to see this made without the use of so many power tools, And 2 why didn't you waterproof the insides?

great work... for food safe / leak proof 1 use right glue shoping aroung ask google. 2 in the middle insirt make your mouthpice when you make it and put a 1/8-1/4 lip on the center and reciving slot on the sides 3 fill with sawdust and set aflame burning just the inside

Hi, I really like this build. But won't the water/whiskey/brandy/whatever seep through the wood? Or if you empty it and leave it be, will it not mould on the inside? I will be making something of this sort so I ask if I should coat the inside with something.

maybe I'm just really OCD but would it kill to stain the spout as well? I cringed when you drilled to set the 'cork' ..... I could not help but think how nice some detailed wood burning on these might look, You may want to submerge it in water a gay before use.

shouldn't you have added an internal bladder so that the wood doesn't degrade from the liquid? also won't alcohol degrade the glue?

Ideally you'd probably want to seal the inside of the bottle with some non-toxic lacquer so the water/alcohol doesn't seep into the wood... Well it's not like it's made for hard use either way.

Wouldn't a water/fluid proof lacquer be needed on the inside to prevent the wood from absorbing it and, Generally, causing failure of container?

Interesting idea. I might have to make one of these myself, though I'll probably use my lathe to round out a block rather than cutting it round (I don't have a band saw, so it's just a matter of using what I have).

show, would not use glue no tintura.Sim screws and beeswax.

curious as to the interior of the canteen. did you seal it in any way? I didn't notice any sealer for the interior. just curious because of the treatments they use on some woods during milling.

Something to take note is that your channel could only benefit from removing some of the loud tool noises. It's pretty easy to do in free audio tools, look for the huge spikes of sound in your final video and remove them. Other channels add music and stuff, not what I'm recommending, just removing say the loud screeches from the tools (the first two were eardrum killers!) *Remove or turn down the decibels.

I wonder if you could char the inside of this and use it with entirelylegitimatedistilledalcohol for small-batch whiskey ;)

im always wondering how to make wood products ressistent against water and bacteria, specially if its like a spoon or a wood bottle or something -.-

No era mas facil, calar el cuerpo de la cantiplora y solo ponerle una tapa? Otra pregunte¿ Si no se le hace un tratamiento de impermeabilidad en el interior, cuanto dura esa madera que al parecer es blanda? Esteticamente es muy Bonita!!!

Thanks! Now I know what to make for my daughter's birthday gift.

wouldn't it have been easier to drill the hole before you put the front and back on? also why not just attach the one side then clean up the glue inside before doing the other?

Is there a way to seal the inside of the flask so it doesn't absorb the water or whatever liquid is put in it and expand?

Depending on what drink it is, won't the pinewood flavour it? And if so, wouldn't that make the drink bitter and weird tasting? How come you didn't seal the inside?

Question. I have also been experimenting with wooden water bottles. So far I have made two bottles and seem to always have the same problem. The glue joint between the middle piece and the sides cracks. I know that wood expands when moist but I am still confused. I am noting the grain direction on all the pieces. On the first bottle, the cracks appeared at the parts where end grain is. I think it might have something to do with the quality of my wood glue. I am using waterproof glue but I suppose I could try a higher quality one. Any suggestions? Thanks!

perhaps coating the insides with something so the wood wont mold or warp or give your drink a wooddy flavor?

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В описании сказано : сосновая доска . Это не приемлемо - использовать для таких целей древесину хвойных пород , выделяющаяся смола обязательно испортит напитки хранящиеся в этой емкости ! Лучше бы хотя бы дуб использовали или (если нет дуба ) нейтральную древесину березы например.

Why would you want to coat the inside, granted this was made from pine but I just refer you to wine barrels, whiskey barrels no coatings, some just charred. Nice work Swallow Forge.

i just got to say this really don't comment on videos but watching your vid's man your good and a genius.

Nice but its to Small... Can't support to sale and only can support to display

I thought you was gonna show us how to make one of them. But Unfortunately you don't even tell us what kind of wood do you? Why don't you talk once in awhile explain yourself? How would it your thoughts on the subject? It's supposed to be instructional

Thumbs up! Nice video and a BIG thank you for not using the crappy annoying free RU-vid music!---Subscribed.

What you are gonna wanna have to go ahead and need to want to have to do'... if you are afraid of wood glue contamination, is switch to the knitting channel. Or maybe chain yourself to a tree, as this was made from a living thing ie a tree. Me I am gonna make one of these suckers ten times bigger, fill it with moonshine and wait for that down home, woody, gluey flavor, to seep into my veins, I am 97 years old and love my booze.

Hello brother, health has become a very beautiful flask. Is the tree any tree?

Молодец мужик, не рукажоп. А только кто бы меня, серого, просветил - что он за клей использует, и нормально ли это для фляги под воду?

maybe i missed something but you didnt use any kind of finish inside right? wont it rot?

The best thing to do is look back at history! To keep it clean and safe to hold liquid line the inside with melted beeswax!

Alright alright, follow me here. I see a few complaints of "wood taste" in these comments. What if you made these of american white oak right, the whiskey and red wine standard. To solve your sealant problem on the inside, char it just like they do for bourbon barrels. Then market them specifically for red wine and bourbon.

that was wonderful brother. but i want to ask about the rest of glue which is still inside the bottle . ?i mean does that not matter because as you know even if the glue got dried an tough its gonna get back liquid again if it stays into the water for long . and that gonna make problem thanks for this awesome clip and i'm sorry about my simple English and i hope you understood what i meant

I saw this video somewhere else... Check this out #DIY wood works... He stole yours

Awesome, i'd love to build one these Too bad I don't have the tools, expertise, time, patience, I'm lazy as f*** and tend to get get distracted to the point that i wouldn't be able to fini

Beautiful work sir.

Great job. However, If I were in your place, I would have cut just two-thirds of the main plat and then get rid of the excess of remaining wood in the middle, so I have to cover only one side of the bottle with a separate piece of wood. Moreover, I would close the bottle by gluing the side at the end of the whole process so I could put a plastic bag inside the bottle to fill it with water instead of filling water inside the bottle itself. Otherwise, I would use natural tar extracted from trees to paint the bottle from the inside to minimize the side effect of the glue. And good luck with your future projects.

меня одного покорибило от его свитера.и торчащие рукава.для мастерской это не подходящая одежда

just to be informational, this will eventually start leaking. I learned a technique that keeps that from happening. Get a piece of metal coat hanger wire and a hammer. Now hammer the wire into the wood (making an indent ) before you glue your sides on. Actually this method doesn't even require glue you could instead use like decorative nails. well any ways... after the seam gets wet that "wire indentation " will swell up making a bead and thus sealing your canteen / flask. Wish I could post a pic but I'm sure with a little research u can find out what I'm talking about if I didn't describe it good enough. woodworkers use this technique on wet stone tubs. REALLY NICE VIDEO. they look great!

Interesting idea, my main concern is using dye where drinking water is used. I'm presuming the PVA has the D4 additive to make it not come apart when water is added (I'd be careful not to poison myself with contamination the water with it), and my third obviation is how you would water proof the inside of the flask so it wouldn't damage the wood in the long run?

я бы из этой фигни пить не стал...сосна,клей внутри...что за бред?!

hope bolts don't enter in order not to rust, and maybe coat the inside wood too

Excellent craftsmanship buddy. In my opinion I would have used pine sap for the glue being it's a 100% waterproof an natural. You can find balls of it on the sides of the tree

I drink my coffe from a wooden cup, a sami guksi, every day and it taste just fine :)

It kind of looks like the sides of the flask are flat or rift sawn boards? Is that true? I guess if you are not keeping liquid in it more than a day or two it would not be a huge problem, but even over night I have seen pine warp pretty aggressively. I love the look, they came out beautiful. I think I might try them out of Sapele or some other 1/4 sawn boards that wont absorb much liquid. Thanks for the video!

so cute. i think is better grind better inside for a real use.

Very nice project piece. It's simple and easy and looks fun to do. It can be sealed with any number of food safe products, such as true Tung Oil, food safe resins, beeswax, mineral oil, olive oil, even polyurethane (has to cure for at least 7 days). I don't know anything about the glue you used, I'm sure it's fine considering it's nontoxic. Once a sealer is put over it, it won't matter anyways. As far as the stain, I'd be careful with those simply because it will soak through the end grains and work it's way inside and if there is no sealer to serve as a barrier it can mix with your water or whatever fluid you put into it. Just a simple piece of advise on that one. I really do like this project and I definitely want to do one similar except I'll do mine on the lathe (easier to sand and shape, I too hate sanding haha). Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up from me.

I can imagine health & safety people having several heart attacks watching this video. lol

This brings me some bad memories. I had one of these wooden water bottle, my grandpa gave it to me. It was ancient, nicely carved and cool, a craftsmanship piece of art. I took it with me to a summer camp even that my grandpa insisted not to do it. I didn't listen to him, so, it happened. Some jerk colleague stole it from me! I could be more careful with my stuff. I still mourn that bottle today, even that it happened about 35 years ago. LOL so sad... So, kids, eyes on your wooden bottles and listen to your grandparents! LOL

Since i'm no expert on this, couldn't you coat the inside to make it waterproof so you could store water in it for longer?

Клей подходит для контакта с пищей? И чем обрабатывали внутри ?

the little wood pipe is too long inside that will keep some drinks inside the bottle unless you shake it , if you put it before you put the cover you can sand it and level it to match the surface inside the bottle

Very interesting video. I didn't mind the monologue a bit.

That first cut looked fun. Cool vid, liked/subd Man, you could char the inside and make mini aging casks for DIY whiskey distillers.

A cool idea, but completely useless, as lumber is treated with arsenic and other chemicals that are hazardous to humans.

omg...how patient you are I'm impressed

They need some chlorine or other anti-bac in the inside and something to cure it too, I guess, to avoid mold and algae to form.

Привет всем вскрой горячим воском внутри ,будет класс!!

i lost my shit ans started yelling when the wood rotated on the bandsaws holy shit thats amazing

Is there any specific glue you need for this? I'm just worried about the glue contaminating the liquid, especially if it's something like whisky.