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This project is such a dense agglomeration of geeky goodness I’m surprised it doesn’t have its own event horizon. In some crossover universe where Doctor Who attended Hogwarts, he carries around a sonic wand like this one.<\/p>\n
DIY enthusiast CabbitCastle’s original inspiration was the wooden Sonic Screwdriver Wand<\/a> made by PraeclarusWands<\/a>, but while that one was a (relatively) simple whittled-and-painted affair, his version is obsessively researched and highly detailed. I love that the blueprint includes a “Technomagical Coupler” where the sonic bit meets the wand bit.<\/p>\n He’s posted full instructions<\/a> for building the wand, and he also has a tutorial<\/a> for a TARDIS-inspired Ollivander’s box to house it. (He also has high-res images of the blueprint on Flickr<\/a> which he says are free to print and hang as posters.)<\/p>\n His version, like the original, is carved wood. If you’ve got the skillset and woodworking tools, you should be able to make a similar one using his design. For the rest of us, I’m thinking that modifying one of the toy sonic screwdrivers<\/a> might be a reasonable approach. The wand bit could be made with a whittled dowel, or even using this<\/a> hot glue-and-paper method (which yields surprisingly good-looking results). Join the two bits with brass couplers from the hardware store plumbing aisle, then paint and distress as desired to give it a bit of authentic-looking wear.<\/p>\n Display the finished piece on a desk or wall, or cosplay with it wearing wizard robes and a fez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This project is such a dense agglomeration of geeky goodness I’m surprised it doesn’t have its own event horizon. In some crossover universe where Doctor Who attended Hogwarts, he carries around a sonic wand like this one. DIY enthusiast CabbitCastle’s original inspiration was the wooden Sonic Screwdriver Wand made by PraeclarusWands, but while that one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21733,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}