Making Dolores Umbridge's Wand - from real wood!

Simultaneously spent far too long and also not enough on this video! Trying out a bit more commentary!...
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[@lucas_c412]

i automatically like the one you made more because not only does it just feel more realistic in how it looks but also cause the gem looks a LOT better than the resin one. also cause you cant see the big metal pole going through it lol

[@Snot_Rockets]

Most of the Umbridge wands I’ve seen actually have a pink ball in the middle so you can’t see the pole, but yes his wands ALWAYS look better.

[@lenninmontiel4539]

Soooo we're making the pink toads wand got it like lets be fr umbridge will always be the most hated witch to ever exist but the actress will always be praised.

[@dwagongirl-9327]

The actress also hated her role, but played it phenomenally.

[@danksage9869]

Fr tho umbridge her self as a character is legit the most hated she deserves death lol but the actress herself deserves a nobel prize for how well she played as her character at the time like holy shit she did such a great job and got everyone hyped about the movie and books even more lol

[@Tacosinaguacate]

Umbridge is hated because of the work the actress did, if she hadn’t done such a superb job, the character wouldn’t be evil enough to be hated lol

[@phoenix3754]

The actress has become one of my favourite actresses only because she made the character one of the most hated.

[@kylenaumann2318]

I’m really enjoying the narrating and commentary. It allows your sense of humor to come through in a very enjoyable way. Keep it up, and hopefully it will get easier to edit.

[@garricksapprentice]

Thankyou, I try hard

[@AlvaroLbaez]

Definitely prefer your orbe, looks cleaner more magical and beautiful, awesome job

[@GreyArkmen]

That's bloody Beautiful,I want so much to see the Narcissa Malfoy wand! Kisses from Brazil 💛💚💙

[@Creative-Cal]

Not only do you make beautiful wands that look better than the resin ones, your editing is spot on! Thanks for making such stunning wands and such fun to watch videos! Loved hearing you talk about the process. It's great to learn while watching the magic happen.

[@andybrown1002]

This is amazing! I'm so thankful for the algorithm finally showing me your channel and I can't wait to watch the rest of your videos... This is beautiful work and I just wanted to say that you could probably get that rose quartz smaller with some sanding although I'm gonna be honest it looks spectacular being slightly larger, grabs the eye better Edit: Sirius Black's wand has always been my favorite, probably because Sirius Black is my favorite

[@garricksapprentice]

Thanks hopefully this channel grows a bit quicker! I think I'd need a stone to remove that much material!

[@andybrown1002]

@@garricksapprentice that's a really good point, you could also talk to a gem stone company that might be willing to reduce it size for a small fee (I know one shop "Gem State Jewelry" in Moscow, Idaho, USA was willing to make gauged earrings for me out of Snowflake Obsidian if I could find the raw material because he didn't have any pieces large enough)

[@zamorvex]

​@@garricksapprentice is it possible to make wands out of accacia wood? I really want to have my own wand someday. I even made a mock up using scissors and one of those giant pencils as a kid haha

[@mackenziedress3144]

Commentary was SOLID. I appreciate you sharing some of the tips and tricks. I'm brand new to turning, and the template BLEW MY MIND. What wood/thickness/tools do you use so it doesn't blow out?

[@starhawke380]

Ive watched several of your wand videos now, I love them! Im just getting into the process myself. I just made my first wand from our old curly willow tree. I saved some branches after it fell last year. Using wet wood sucks. Tearout is a major problem, but so is flexibility! I did have to support the wood like you do while turning it down to final thickness, but using my off hand to support the wood while its spinning scares the heck out of me. Having the voiceover explaining the steps is quite a nice addition in my opinion. I thought the round stone looked much better than a hollow piece of glass with an obvious metal rod support. Thanks for all the great information, and the editing and camera work is top notch!

[@hunterjordan4966]

If you want to use the rest of the birch you have you could use a polyurethane type sealer. It may help keep the valleys dark if you decide to just make what you can out of the wood.

[@sonicfreak04]

I find it incredibly rich that Umbridge has a rose quartz in the center of her wand because rose quartz is said Rose quartz is known as a healing crystal and the stone of unconditional love. It's believed by some to emit strong vibrations of love, which are thought to: support emotional and relationship healing. inspire compassion. boost feelings of peace and calm.

[@garricksapprentice]

Ah it's referred to as a gemstone in the wand book, I just can't afford one!

[@Shock_Treatment]

​@@garricksapprenticeWhat type? Garnets are pretty cheap, and there's also lab grown gems.

[@AnniCarlsson]

The wand maybe tried to heal her so chose her for that but become to gard work in the end

[@samarchist74]

Vacuum-stabilizing rotten or punky wood with resin or Cactus Juice makes doing fine details way easier and helps prevent breakage. I've started doing it forcknife handles and spoons and it works a treat.

[@rynait]

My dad uses... extremely thinned varnish with mineral spirit.

[@sidgji]

I really like the rose quartz you used and the wand you made looks so realistic! the commentary is great as well, like more insight on the thought process about the steps. glad I found your channel!

[@Raven_Is_Baby]

This is very impressive! I like how you also added the little rose quartz orb in the wand. Also i cant imagine any other wizard or witch that would have rose quartz in their wand. Its such an Umbridge thing

[@josemagana8909]

Your wand making skills are incredible and the commentary is great.

[@zangetsuee]

wow the orb on the original is surprisingly bad Your work is awesome mate!!!!

[@cardenw]

Sadly they added the metal bar running through the middle because the first wave of replicas were very fragile and they got a lot of complaints, it ruins the orb. Sadly they did the same with the pink crystal in Seraphina Piquery's wand. :(

[@Redreaper-hh4tn]

amazing work as always! But I must say that umbridges wand, has to be the most simplest but yet most fragile wand, but has an interesting look to it, it's not my favorite wand, but it is up on the list of interesting wands, keep up the good work, I can't wait to see the next one ^^

[@SmoothC92]

You know what? As a perfectionist, I completely understand your disdain for how it came out. Personally, I find the subtle imperfections to be an ideal representation of who Umbridge was. She appeared to be a just follower of the ministry but was secretly brutal. So the chips and how discreetly asymmetrical it is aspect of it is a perfect metaphor for her moral compass.

[@odinthebeardedone8738]

With as amazing as your work is, I don’t think anyone should worry about how your shop looks. Keep up the amazing work!

[@GangstahLove]

The VoiceOver is definitely the way to go! so much more entertaining !

[@thebrowneyesofmandalore]

Ok this was an awesome video, but did anyone else see the Voldemort picture in the microwave? That honestly freaked me out. I was like is that a reflection of a picture or something? It can’t be him become he’s higher up pressing the microwave buttons. Then i realized you put a picture of Voldemort of the inside. Genius man. 😂

[@brendadowd8679]

Yes, I saw it- freaked me out too.

[@LynMa80]

"It's a bit rotten" - Perfect for Umbridge, then ^^

[@houjebek3605]

THE COMMENTARY IS GREAT, IT’S SO ENTERTAINING

[@darko721]

Absolute legend mate! The real life Olivander! Can't wait to see you make Voldemort's and Grindelwald's 🤘

[@Vol-Tear]

I would not worry about the wand being crooked, if anything it fits Umbridge better ;p

[@JoelWalker56]

2:59 Did anyone notice the Voldemort reflection on the microwave?👀

[@HeshwXareb]

Me

[@caketaro]

Watching this again, I find the rotting of the birth perfect for Umbridge (I almost said Umbritch). Perfect for the character, a hurdle for woodturning.

[@jacobsirma3088]

It's great to see you post your mistakes, it makes us appreciate the process more

[@DanteNava]

This one looks great! Maybe next time you find some more of the propper wood you swing back around and do a take 2. It'll make for a good video.

[@zukc3r850]

Now I feel ashamed for using carbide tools haha. Fantastic work mate

[@garricksapprentice]

Get em in the bin!

[@CamilleGiot]

Respect for you for all your work

[@Woodsboro_mongrel92]

That fight club moment with the "bit of foreshadowing"😂

[@garricksapprentice]

DON'T TALK ABOUT FIGHTCLUB

[@Woodsboro_mongrel92]

@@garricksapprentice 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤫

[@scott.c.9603]

i love these videos theyre so cool seeing the process of making the wands id love to see hermiones wand or fleur delacours i would toats buy them !! awesome work!☺

[@matthewscorner2990]

Would it have been at all possible to wear down the rose quartz until it's the size you need? I saw a video once of someone dumping marbles in a bucket of water and smooth stones and shaking it around and the marbles wore down with the shaking and still came out smooth and round. I'm not sure how exactly the process was done or how specific it needs to be, but I wonder if something similar could have been done here.

[@Shock_Treatment]

I've made spheres in the past, and that's pretty unlikely. Quartz is a 7 on the Moh's scale, and it even takes a while on the sphere maker to wear it down, and that's under pressure in the cutting cups with grit. Doing it by hand would take an extremely long time, and I doubt it would be perfectly round.

[@anvngun6729]

That wand looks... interesting.

[@Bastet674]

Umbridge loves cats. So you can say the mars can be cat scratches

[@lukemoloney7566]

I got Cypress wood and drying it out to make Lubin wand but it's very wet so might take a month to dry out

[@Parz1val-w2u]

This Videos are amazing, this calm etc. Please don't stop making this great Videos

[@garricksapprentice]

I'll try not to! But they're a lot of work and last couple videos haven't done well (yet?)

[@leozhuo-hb6hu]

@@garricksapprenticemake Harry’s wand

[@richardstroh6803]

Are you gonna do Hagrid's umbrella

[@yourfilin]

I think you should have used light amethyst instead of rose quartz... To be honest, I have a lot of trouble with 'making wands from the correct wood.' I'll try to explain why. It so happens that the original movie prop wands weren't made from the 'correct wood type.' The aesthetic aspect was much more important than following the canon. Starting from the length and shape of the wands and ending, in fact, with the types of wood. Most of the wands were made from valuable species or from rare and specially beautiful pieces of wood. For example, many wands were made of rosewood, in particular, Harry's and Draco's and Umbridge's ones. Ebony was also used very often. And the elder wand was made from english oak. Voldemort's wand was made, I believe, from some synthetic material so it can look like a bone. Hermione's wand was made, I suppose, from oak or walnut, and Snape's and Ginny's ones from ebony, etc. So it would be very very very cool if use correct movie types of wood, so you don't have to paint or stain them. Anyway very cool job you do, colleague 💙

[@garricksapprentice]

Thankyou - yeah where possible I want to avoid staining, but I've thought about one day remaking all the known wood wands out of the correct wood again but left natural colour!

[@DarrenMalin]

the actress that played Umbridge , really did a good job , you get to really dislike Dolores :)

[@ibenekholdt9362]

«Time to make a birch wand for this ✨BiîAÄtT✨*cutoff*😅😅😅😅😅

[@Hidegety1]

We come here to witness excellency of ppl doing their things. You know yourself that it could have been better. I liked the humour though.

[@untameablepasta]

I love it better when you not do commentary, the silent just make the process more pleasurable

[@guyloren]

Superb job Matt,a very fiddly one to be sure,so much beautiful detail though!🏆 Very furniture-y isn't it,ha- needs a doily under it!😄

[@CaptainJackSparrowSavvy]

Made from real birch? Thats funny because if you replace the r with a t it spells Umbridge!

[@1COMIXMAN]

Imagine making custom wands for people of the type of woods used in harry potter. Then take strands of white or blonde horse hair ,strings made of lizard leather or feathers painted like a Phoenix feather and letting people choose their cores. then drill a small hole down center of wand and put in the cores and seal it with a small plug.You could make bank from that. It's all make believe the magical power but imagine it's the closest we have to the real things and would be a cool collectors piece.

[@Shock_Treatment]

Drilling holes down the center would weaken them unless you used resin to fill in the gaps.

[@hittingthewall]

Setting the microwave to birch... I died! 🤣🤣🤣 and yes, more commentaries, please. You're quite entertaining!

[@garricksapprentice]

Thankyou thankyou

[@CedricxChaotic]

The result was more than enough for Umbridge, so it was for us!

[@ianlee9755]

Very talented, love your videos

[@alyssaweyland8562]

Looks amazing!

[@HalaNaunsa]

Atleast u do exactly what it look like ❤❤❤

[@BrianMills-uf2nn]

like the light commentary, keep it up

[@houjebek3605]

I thoroughly enjoyed ever second of this video

[@Gts2pro]

The voice over is brilliant, and the quality of work is fantastic, what about fantastic beasts wands ?

[@amyofmelbourne]

Fantastic video, loving the new voice overs!

[@manharleen]

Amazing work! 😍 May I ask, what book is that?

[@11BRelo]

“You’re going to be doing some lines for me today Mr. Potter” 😂☠️💀

[@Bean_Beanums]

That part had me dying! 🤣💀

[@abdallahhossam159]

I think it is very beautiful ❤ What about Snape's wand ?

[@rynait]

That was FAROUT lathe work. my dad taught me but not that thin!!! he is not master wood turner but has been doing it years, preferring to turn bowls. but he taught me. watching you doing yours. made me think a few lessons.. yes you can use rag to control. dad say keep material small.. smaller equal less harm compared to large pinched mass (think how much mass equal to flying shards) . this applies to wax applicator materials and sanding squares. did you know that in history, the tools... be they called gouges, skews chisel, etc. Stone age is believed to have done wood turning with knapped stone. obvious with later evolution on materials. Watching you do the fine work on Dolores' wand... made me want to say something. I would cut out strips of steel, be it either part of a old sawblade or from cabinet scraper (with angle grinder) then sharpen edges. make handle on the lathe then just mount steel on it, probably epoxy or screws. considerable thought toward safe control on the cutting. Regardless, do you know those quartzes can be also lathe turned too. use diamond bits as lathe edge tool.

[@User-O-useR]

You forgot to put Basilisk' fang in there

[@emoney550]

Anyone else see Lord Voldemort’s face in the microwave at 3:06 ?

[@chrissmith3992]

We understand it's OK keep the ball

[@ReinodeWenmar]

I love your videos and there's a wand that really blows my mind, this is Alecto Carrow's, she's a very minor character but she has a beautiful wand, could you make it please? I haven't found out what wood it's made of and from the color I think you could make it out of black walnut. Thank you very much.

[@LucasAmino]

I forgive you because all your other wands are perfect

[@SerafiniAGaunt]

Fitting that the most awful character in the series gives you the most trouble wand-making wise xD Great work regardless!

[@Snot_Rockets]

How long on average does it take you to make a wand, do you get really pissed off when something goes wrong, or breaks because of all the money and time you’ve spent on one? I know I would. Also I love it with a bigger stone like you did.

[@garricksapprentice]

Filming makes it very stop start you see - but I can do this one quite happily under an hour with no rushing. And I factor in for breakages really

[@TheDancer-v6w]

Real birch? N-n-no no no. Real Bit- 😂😂❤❤

[@caketaro]

I wonder how umbridge got that crystal on the wand. Though maybe it is an ornament.

[@Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam]

These wands are really impressive as always! I got a lathe myself recently and am wondering how you get your tools so sharp? When I touch my tool to the wood it chips pieces off rather than shaving it. Yours is like a pencil sharpener

[@garricksapprentice]

Standard grinding wheel - I have CBN/diamond wheels which helps

[@rynait]

dad said he use hand cranked grinder with gray stone. hand finish it with whetstone. He does not dare use electric grinders... too difficult to maintain original angles. REMEMBER those gouges' angles are not cut the same. Jig might help some.

[@RiemannThumbs]

Lmao! Fell out of my chair at that vacuuming joke

[@michaelzajac5284]

I hope you use your Wood Lathe Copier Duplicator.

[@Galaxy_lou]

How are you actually this good, also next would love to see Fred and George

[@scottishunionforeducation2155]

I love the commentary

[@jacquesdor50]

Subscribe scratched on your hand. Very nice.

[@thewander-k7e]

Make lord voldmort's wand next 🤩🤩

[@jordanezell5132]

Will you make Hagrid’s umbrella wand? Great vid, one of my favorite wands.

[@garricksapprentice]

One day... One day

[@zombieplague1266]

Have you thought of making Albus Dumbledore's Original wand from fantastic beasts?

[@BlkTzarina]

I love the commentary, you are beyond funny!

[@oxcrafted]

How do you get the dragon heartstring in?

[@cardenw]

Amazing work as always Imelda Staunton did such a great job making Umbridge absolutely hateable in every single scene :P Are you planning to make Luna's first wand from Order of the Phoenix and Half Blood prince? (the baton-style wand decorated with oak leaves and acorns carved into the handle) Luna's actress was particularly fond of that wand and requested to have it replace the Tulip style wand they originally displayed on the wand wheel at the "making of" tour. :)

[@cardenw]

The official replicas are a bit of a pain to get a hold of as they're exclusively sold with the £125 "dumbledore's army" 6-wand collection, but there are some good references online (for the specific layout of the leaves/acorns) and the wand itself is very simple in design.

[@garricksapprentice]

@@cardenw I would like to make it but want to make all of them with a physical wand to copy!

[@cardenw]

I'd lend you mine as a reference if I lived closer to your workshop :P mind you, the paintjob on mine's getting a bit patchy from handling, so it wouldn't be the best. @@garricksapprentice

[@garricksapprentice]

@@cardenw I might message you in the new year...

[@murphchris5670]

Love this Wand and video. Can you please commentate all your videos because your other videos are too quick. I'm probably gonna get backlash for this, but I use your videos as a master class in woodturning.

[@garricksapprentice]

I'm still not sure what I like to do yet - this one was a bit of a rush job but gets so confusing hence I repeat a few points! I'm thinking ASMR voiceover for Sirius' next or soft piano!..

[@murphchris5670]

@@garricksapprentice no worries. Love your work.

[@laevateintechnology5634]

Awesome

[@phly007]

Well done sir

[@gabyrocha4467]

Just found you, immediate subscribe

[@aadityavyas9346]

Please make lucius malfoy’s wand next!

[@camillaswart3959]

It's beautiful

[@thewander-k7e]

Wow u r amazing 😮❤❤

[@ZacharyJeffriess]

I WILL TAKE ORDER 🎉❤

[@ZacharyJeffriess]

OMG MY GURL LOVE HER ❤❤❤

[@brendadowd8679]

Do you sell your wands?

[@NatalieRushman1984]

Can you next please do Fred Weasley's Wand ❤

[@garricksapprentice]

In time in time...

[@joycesebial1820]

Can you make dumbledore’s first wand in fantastic beast

[@TheBryanChannel]

0:00 killed me

[@sarathielapone7547]

Pliss Please again Narcissa Malfoy's 🥺🥺🥺

[@WookieRookie]

Who else read "real bitch" instead of "real birch" ? Seems pretty accurate, though.

[@garricksapprentice]

I think everyone

[@gogi2883]

3:06 is that voldamort face omg haha

[@puiasailo9831]

The world mite be divided by many things, and mite not agree on many things but i have never met a living person who loves Dolores Umbridge... Nothing brings people together more than mutual hate.

[@thomaswagner-sf1rg]

What wand are you doing next?

[@garricksapprentice]

Sirius!

[@angelwhispers2060]

This is one of the changes I don't like that universal has sort of forced JK Rowling to accept because of all the money. Originally none of JK Rowling's wands had a crystal in the middle at all or even on the ends it was all superficial. the core and wood have to be completely intact in accordance with British wand tradition. This is obviously some marketing nonsense made up after the fact. The only thing we learn in the books about Dolores Jane Umbridge's wand is that it's remarkably short. Signifying something lacking in her personal character. Regardless really enjoy your work very pretty