That is indeed an expensive piece of wood! Until someone figures out how to make boxwood grow fast and in large quantities, it might well be a rare commodity! :D Excellent piece, turned out with not a screw loose! :D
You can grow it faster but then you would lose all the qualities that make it special. It grow so slow that wood grains are not visible, and it behaves like plastic when working with it.
I just found your channel yesterday. Absolutely amazing. I wish I had a millionth of your skill. Plus you make these pieces without a template, even more amazing.
Wearing gloves while turning wood is DANGEROUS, as are long sleeves, long hair, and loose fitting clothing. Any of these can get caught in the wood or in the machinery and cause catastrophic injury. An ungloved finger might get injured, but imagine the glove getting caught or snagged and wrapping your entire hand even your arm around the workpiece!
My brother in woodcrafts , you are so right with everything you just mentioned !!! loose fitting anything around anything that is spinning , is a catastrophe in the making !!! faster than one can blink & it is already to late , you have been pulled / yanked in to the teeth of HELL !!! folks please think !!! machinery is nothing to play with !!! safety , safety , safety !!! Your eyes , your lungs , your hearing , etc.
That Corkscrew turned out pretty cool man! That Boxwood has got such a rich color to it. The natural finish was the way to go with it. Again a very nice piece.
It really is. If I may, you can look at Facebook market place for some decent deals, I personally got my small lathe from harbor freight and it's alright for $400, but I'd you have more money and wanna get stuck into it I'd look for a higher end lathe
@@thomasnaas2813 hypnotic is exactly how I would put it. Perfectly put. That's what makes it dangerous to me. Something about my brain is easily lost in it and that's when I make mistakes. I've had a few scares that I was lucky to escape with little to no damage and every time it's because I was getting tired and too comfortable plus kinda day dreaming. When focused no one makes mistakes, it's when you relax that accidents happen.
A little curiosity: in Italy, boxwood, beautifully yellow, used for centuries by the best cabinetmakers in history, is today rightly protected by the absolute prohibition of cutting it, so much so that we are forced to import it mainly from the States, where it has a slightly different coloring and more marked grain.Greetings
That is very nice, and now I am eyeing the hedge of boxwood in my front yard. The fact that people will pull them out and discard them sometimes astounds me. I have a 3" log of "redbud" laid up years ago along with some invasive privit, and a magnolia log. And there is a small trunk of holly that is encroaching on our back deck that I might harvest in the next couple of years. A hazel is really beginning to encroach on my driveway. hmm. Isn't it good? Suburban wood
This is a very nice practical item, I’ve never heard of boxwood, I’m assuming it’s quite rare. I just looked it up, I see it’s a slow growing shrub. From an aesthetic point of you I like the colour and grain. On a lighter note while watching this its a Friday night I have a glass of wine. 🙂
Wait, this stuff is expensive? I've got a whole bunch of stuff that looks just like this. I nearly threw it away because I couldn't think of a use for it 🤣 Time to give it another look, I think 🙂
Awesome work. I thought it was going to be a candle holder at first. That would have been beautiful with the wood grain. 🪵 However, you're the professional and I'm not. Great work.
Mr. Smith, That was very enjoyable to watch. English Box is a very unique and gorgeous wood. You did justice to that piece. The shavings I'm thinking could be used for something artistic as well . . . Just saying. 😁 Thank you.
I thought that looked like boxwood, I cut atleast a hundred feet of boxwood bigger than that the other year. I wanted to keep it but the cemetery wouldnt let me, and on the brush pile it went. Pretty wood!
so let me get this straight your telling us that this wooden handled corkscrew is just a wooden handled corkscrew, gee thanks , been scratching my head
I'm more disappointed that he made it in the middle of that piece he could have made two corkscrews that size out of that if he started on one end lol..
I suggest that pink ivory is the most expensive wood and that's if you can find any. You turned a piece of boxwood which is also hard to come by but not impossible. I have a few pieces of box which I'm reluctant to use in case I foul it up but it is an amazing wood and can take some fine detail work.
Thanks for watching Alan! I agree that Pink Ivory is definitely up there in terms of rarity and price. I've got a few pieces that I might turn sometime soon but like you I'm reluctant to use them encase I mess it up. 👍
@@HarrySmithWoodturning snake wood is even more expensive than pink ivory. I used a piece for a handle of an Italian fencing foil and it was more than 1.5 times price of PI, it is also amazingly beautiful. I bought a 36” piece of SW in 1999 for $180 with plans to make it into a walking stick.
When you drilled that hole in it, I wondered whether or not you were going to blow across it like a flute. You see, before the advent of the modern silver flute, some of the finest flutes in the world were made from Box wood.
The most expensive woods and the hardest our Dogwood and bougoak .Lighamvite maple are my favourite Box is nice to work with but very plain Yeu is nice to. In fact all woods are .I also have some Dutch elm soft but still white And what about woods from other countries .
Shame they were all hideously out of tune and hard to play ;) tho on a serious note, you can get boehm flutes made of African blackwood, my piccolo is made of it
It's a very nice corkscrew in the end. I just regret that so much of the original wood went onto the floor. What was left was less than half the wood started with. Almost like making a toothpick out of a Douglas Fir.
Very good video. Thanks. Here in Germany all the box-wood bushes are damaged by a little bug, called "Buchsbaumzünzler". And everybody throws these bushes into waste. I'll have a look for this kind of wood.
How is this the “Most Expensive Wood”? I like the idea of how you turned the wood into a cork screw but still unsure how it’s the “Most Expensive Wood”? Or do you just charge a fortune for the cork screw?
@@emeltea33 I did several times. And it still didn’t make sense. It looks like a piece of wood you cut from out your garden. The description makes it sound like you’ve bought a very expensive wood and then put it on a wood lathe.
The creators didn't say rarest ... they said the most expensive. Many of the worlds rarest woods are no longer available for purchase, thereby making them legally worthless and illegal to possess.
@@user-nd3lx1zg9t you say that, but thee are mahogany pieces of furniture turning up at auctions and going for a song. George III mahogany chest of drawers £50. Not veneer, solid mahogany, along side solid oak, teak, elm etc pieces of furniture.
The very first thing I thought of was a pepper mill. If there was a fire that would be the first thing I grabbed (with the exception of humans and animal type things) LoL 😆 Then I saw a cork screw🙂😉❤ Awesome Sauce, sir!!💋💯🌺🌻🤟🧰 Now back to my adulting for the day. Have a wonderful day/weekend 😊
Beautiful work. Although I think that you should've left some raw pieces on the ends to show "where it originates" from and make it an instant conversation piece.
No Way , that is cheap compared to madagascin mahogany is world most expensive and exotic wood for wood working very expensive is an illusionlso tazmaian teak is nice wood too
The first thing we learned in wood shop was never wear long sleeves, gloves, or anything that could possibly get caught when turning wood or working with any rotating machinery at all. Otherwise that is a really nice looking piece man
I don't think Boxwood qualifies as being the most expensive wood. But still a nice video. I paid 14€ for a boxwood knife handle blank and 86€ for an ironwood burl piece in the same dimensions.
Lignum vitae is,by far,my favorite rare wood to turn on the lathe.Quite rare,very hard,nice to turn and polishes up to an incredible finish!Oh yes,lignum vitae is absolutely my favorite for lathe work!
I prefer the French , but the English grown makes nice stuff also !!! I save mine for whittling & wood carving blade handles & hand shape them start to finish !!! They are rock hard & spectacular to look at & use !!!
As a woodturner, I’m obligated to add that one minor slip and your project would be finely decorated with sinew, blood and skin. Please never wear gloves when turning.
Yes you are, but boxwood has a toxicity of an irritant to both body and lung problems.... we juat can't see his resperator...better safe than sorry, but we get your point.
@@HarrySmithWoodturning pay attention! say thanks to Germantown Bred and do not use any kind of gloves from now on!!!! graves are plenty of "there is no problem" people
please don't cut round objects on bandsaw without a jig especially when the area being cut isn't supported by the table. also always cut "downhill" (from high point to low point) on a lathe to avoid catches and tear out. This has been my "that's skurry" PSA, thank you
To be honest, it would have been nice if the rare wood was made into something with character. The end result just looks like any old simple corkscrew with no unique defining features. Seems like a waste of money. Doesn't look bad, but it's really not eye-catching. Very underwhelming. 😕
I have been a woodworker for a while, but I just began a new venture by purchasing a wood lathe so as to increase the type of items I can offer. I've been scouring RU-vid for interesting directions to pursue & your channel came across my search path. Just curious as to where your "wine cork screw" was purchased ? I'm guessing you used an epoxy glue on the threads of the corkscrew rather than a threaded insert ? Thanks so much !! David M. Clunk WoodWorking Made Simpler Ada, MI
