Thank you. Great to hear from a fellow crafter. :D

Thank you so much!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. I'll keep making wand videos as long as people keep watching. Thanks for your support!

I turn at 2000 RPM for all my wands but slow it down for finish work like sanding.

My current stock of wands is available in my Etsy shop: nemesisgear.etsy.com I'm happy to discuss custom designs if you have something specific in mind, just shoot me a message through Etsy. :)

Thank you. I did start a groove in the flap wheel by just holding a scrap of metal in the center to wear it in a bit. Once I have a center track, just doing numerous wands will keep wearing the flaps right. I think these wheels are MANY years old, so they will last quite awhile. I suppose you could try using a drill to run the wheel with the wand it in lathe, but holding it steady would be hard. I turn the wand much slower than the lathe would run, so I find it much easier to have the wheel stationary so I can manipulate the wand against it. I'd have to use 1 hand on the drill and one to slowly turn the wand in the chuck if I did it the other way around. Doubtful I could be as accurate. :D

@@mythimpressions thanks for the reply, makes sense. I guess you could put the flap wheel in a Jacobs Chuck and mount that on the lathe….just thinking out loud as I don’t have a proper pillar drill😉

They are just standard flap disks, but I use a piece of scrap metal and wear a groove in them to start so the wands have a place to ride. The groove just gets bigger over time.

Honestly I don't remember. I picked up a couple of small packages at the hardware store when I was making more steampunk items several years ago and just had then sitting on a shelf. I believe they are about 1mm thick, but the packages are long gone so I don't know the exact gauge. If I remember right, they were in blister packs in the same section as the wall hooks and such, but again, years ago.