Make an awesome Harry Potter wand from a sheet of paper and glue gun glue

Step 5: Plug the ends of the wand (and fill it)

Carefully dribble glue gun glue into both ends of the wand (one at a time, waiting till each end is set). For the bigger of the two ends, you can pack the end with a little rolled up tissue pushed down a bit with a pencil so that you don't have to use too much glue. For the bigger end you will probably need to have two goes. If you are careful you can achieve a rounded end, as the glue is setting make sure that you rotate the wand to stop it slumping to one side or dripping over the edge. The same goes for the little end, although if you have wound the wand tightly enough, you will not need to fill this twice.

NOTE if you want your wand to be stiff and very robust, then instead of using the tighter rolled up paper core, you can fill it with epoxy resin. Epoxy resin is that sort of glue that you use by mixing up two parts. It can be very runny when mixed up, so you will need to plug the smaller end. After plugging the little end, but before plugging the big end, fill the wand with quick setting, two part epoxy resin. Use the 5 minute setting version rather than the really fast 90 second version and carefully dribble the glue down the inside of the wand, making sure not to get it on the outside. Don't worry If you do get a little bit on the outside though, just wipe it off carefully and quickly, you'll be painting over that later.

Comments

[tianapotter]

i used polyfiller and it worked perfectly

[bluefyre]

can u do this without the glue gun? if yes then how? please answer....

[askullpie]

You can fill it with clay or paper and make the surface details out of modeling clay.

[TechnoDrop]

Fully possible, though u have to be a bit creative = Every poor persons motto XD

Just experimenting a bit as of yet but stuffing the end with ripped tissue rolled into small tufts and then soaking it with glue to let it set (might have to press it a bit into shape though) seems to do the trick.

Of course you don't really end up with that smooth and nice rounded shape but it works.

[bluefyre]

naice..... :D shud luk gud. and what about the rolling part. mine gets all thick and stuff.. any way to deal wid dat??

[TechnoDrop]

Thick in what way? Because it could just be you're not rolling it tight enough?

[bpallaiologos]

HOW I CAN MAKE DUBLUDUR AND BOLTEMORT WAND

[speedracer425]

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[htonks]

I noticed someone had the idea to fill thier wand with flour, and still glue end ends. That might work for weight

[taranis54]

has anyone tried using a marble or bouncy ball to stopper the end of their wand? it would provide a nice, round end without too much work. only issue I could see with using a marble is that it may not hold the paint. but a bouncy ball should. I'm planning on making a wand when i have the time and supplies, and I'm planning on trying that. I'm a perfectionist. I'll let you all know how it turns out.

[KaptinScarlet]

You could do that, but if you are careful with the hot melt, glue gun glue you can get a very nice smooth finish. If you squeeze it in the end and then rotate the wand so that the end budges out you can get a very even round end as the hot melt wants to drip out in a nice spherical shape. You have to keep rotating the wand to get it perfect (rotating end to end NOT round its axis so the the glue is alternately trying to drip out the end and push back inside). It takes a bit of practice but you can get a very good finish suitable for a perfectionist. Look at some of Mamabryna's wands on dadcando. I think that you'd be hard pushed to fault those.

Post pictures of yours please, we'd love to see them.

[htonks]

I can't get it perfect, I use modge podge to heal the little bit of rough edge between the glue and paper.

Ad for some annoying reason my glue dries yellow.

[allstar]

thanks for that info you're the best KaptinScarlet

[KaptinScarlet]

no problem, good luck making your wand

[allstar]

i will thx

[allstar]

i will

[htonks]

I hd some trouble getting the edge looking nice between the wand and the glue, so i used some modge podge to smooth over the seams

[NOODLE!]

i used duct tape. my general motto is: if you cant do it w/ duct tappe, you havnt used enough

[I am Lord Voldemort]

For mine, I completely stuffed it with individual squares of tp. If you pack it in really tight, you'll get a very rigid wand! Just thought I'd tell everybody else what worked for me :)

[smashbro51]

i put a blue marble at the bottom of mine it looks really cool

[LargePaperCup]

you spelled colors wrong every time! no worries we got what you meant! good ible

[rumbleroar98]

Actually, color is the American way of spelling it. In the UK pretty much everything thing with an 'or' is 'our,' like 'favour' and 'colour.'

[salaok]

colour is spelled right hahaha American English is different haha and i do live in America but ive always loved UK spelling haha my teachers hate it though where i spell colour instead of color lol

[KaptinScarlet]

One might consider that as American is derived from English, the more correct spelling of any given word in the English language would be that of the original English, thus it might be said that in fact you have spelled the word colour incorrectly. I am from England and in England this is how the word is spelled. Ironically you have failed to use a capital letter after your exclamation mark punctuation; twice. Me thinks glass houses and throwing stones comes to mind. Still no matter, I get what you meant... sort of :-)

[DeZwarteMaan]

KaptinScarlet... before you attempt to sound so impishly intellectual, and inform someone that colour is the most proper way to spell a word, you might wish to consider the root derivatives.

In the 16th and 17th centuries British scholars insisted that the Latin root -or be used and not -our or -ur endings existed from French loans.

French: Couleur
Brit-English: Colour
Am-English: color
Latin: Color (3rd male ascension: Coloris)

Some words like Glamour still use the Anglo-franco version, because they were derived from the UK words. Gramarye or similar entymology.

Since the origins of the word 'color' are shown to be derived form an older language, such as Latin.. which brought the word to Britain was well.. one might assume that British are using the wrong spelling.

We do have words which are expressly UK derived and still currently use -our ending. But these words likely were not origined from Latin.

I might make an assumption that the French adaptations were a cause due to English Kings taking French queens as wives and the royalty deciding on the spelling. But more likely, it was the Norman invasion of England. Shrug, not for me to wonder or care... but personally I think Britain spells Color wrong.

A Curiosity that I have: if -ou is a OW sound like Count.. why do you pronounce Route as (root) and not (R-ow-te) like we Americans do. Do you pronounce Count as (C-oo-nt)?

[Algag]

yes, in latin class we do derivatives on certain vocab words some of them are obscure as can be because they "went through" french before the "came" too english

[KaptinScarlet]

Excellent, I love the debate. The English language is mostly fully of difficult vagaries brought about by the many and diverse influences over the centuries, but it remains that American is derived from English and so it is interesting that as a correction or simplification the Americanisation of the word colour to the word color, has in fact has turned the word closer to its root. In the end who is to say which is correct.

BTW my spelling is atrocious and so I am the last person to comment on spelling. But thank you for the very interesting language lesson.

[gearskin]

Blame Noah Webster, he shortened and "Americanized" the spellings of many words when he wrote - you guessed it - Webster's Dictionary back in the early 1800s.

[KaptinScarlet]

cool fact, from now on I am going to be blaming him!

[a.nony.mouse]

that sound awesome. pictures please!

[smashbro51]

sorry i dont know how to put pictures on my computer. ive never really tried though.

[a.nony.mouse]

oh well, i guess i'll have to live without :p

[lint66]

you could probably put those long wooden skewers too if you wanted some durability and flexibility

[CheepNEasyBuilder]

kaptin scarlet do u have any other ideas besides glue to fill the wand i just finished mine and its too flimsy in places.could u help me??

[Jeraldo]

I filled mine entirely with glue gun glue. I still can't stop laughing at the fact that it is merely a giant glue gun stick covered in paper! Very good Instructable! Two thumbs up! -Jared-

[KaptinScarlet]

I know what you mean

[KaptinScarlet]

thank you

[benben15]

ok i have made a few but they aer kinda flimsy how can i mcke them hard without the resin

[ricardjorg]

fill the whole wand with the glue gun.. but you will probably spend a tube or two..

[greentea]

I'm making a bunch of these for a library event to celebrate the movie thats coming out and kick off our summer reading program. Thanks, these are great. On a side note if you have a wider wand stopper the narrow end with hot glue first and once its dry just fill the inside completely through the larger end. It makes a nice solid core when it cools. I let mine stand in a pencil cup.