Super Easy Gourd Tea Set
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FINALLY! A cup that can hold hot liquids! Check out this ADORABLE little tea set we made simply by cutting a calabash gourd in half. These things really are versatile. Who knows what else we could use them for...
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I fell down an adhd blackhole on gourd research. They were the first globally traded item, and appeared pretty much everywhere about 10,000 years ago
Thanks. I had the urge to do the same. XD
Thats SUPER interesting!!!!
Good Gourd!
I had to.
@@SkillTreecould make a tea version of your coffe briefcase
@@celiashen5490Gourdgous wordplay!
I don't understand how this channel doesn't have more subscribers. It deserves more attention. I dont larp or anything similar. Im just a creative who dabbles in way too many things. I love getting to come here to learn and get inspired for which I am very greatful. Now if you excuse me, this was just the excuse I needed to give in to the desire Ive been fighting to look into planting gourds to make into birdhouses.
So glad you are enjoying the content!!! Happy growing!
I love how it ended up! As you were making it I was just thinking how awkward it might be to drink out of (particularly for hot stuff) given the inward angle of the lip, so I think you made the right choice to pivot. I can imagine if you'd planned from the beginning to make the teapot, you could have sized the rings to kinda slot in together so your lid is a little more secure.
I'm pretty excited about that scorch marker though, had no idea that was a thing, got some research to do!
Well as an argentinian person myself I've seen some mate gourds if that shape and size but we do have a filtered straw type thing called a bombilla that helps us drink from gourds like that
Right! When I saw that marker I got so excited!!!
@@SkillTree stumbled upon them a few years back. It's crazy some of the products out there. Amazon can be almost as financially dangerous as it's namesake can be to your health. Lol
What would be a great idea is if your tea set was self contained for a journey or something. Like maybe have a way to secure the cup as a lid and then mount the whole thing to a bag on the go or something.
Yeah a screwtop would be amazing. Just screw 'm together for easy adventuring!
I was hoping they'd connect and house the tea while not in use. Might have to order some gourds and prototype it myself for when I get to go back to LARP.
Love this idea! I will get to working this out!!
@@SkillTree Maybe a larger gourd, one with a wider opening to act as the teapot, and then a smaller one that can fit inside the bigger one for the cup(s)? 🤷♀️
Just a theory.
@@SkillTree my thought was to slightly elevate your Concho, and maybe adding to the spout form the outside by soldering a small lip. Then too wire loops on your cup. Loop one over the concho, then press the other over the spout!
Probably not water tight like some are talking about, but a nice way to keep the set together!
Awesome project! Please note that when working with gourds it is imperative to use a respirator as the dust is highly irritating to sinuses, lungs, throat etc. The dust itself is not toxic, but it can behave like asbestos in the lungs. Always wear a respirator 😊
Cool project man, Argentinian here. Just wanted to clarify some terms, because we really are a bit complicated. The drink is called "mate" not "yerba mate". Yerba mate is the name of the herb that is used for the infusion ("yerba" is an old Spanish word for "hierba", herb). The recipient from which the mate is sipped is also called mate. Anyways, as always, awesome content. Cheers from the south!
This is good to know! I really want to try mate now. I will by the stuff and give it a try!
@@SkillTree amazing! Look for someone to share it with, we usually sit in a circle and the one that pours the water in (ceba el mate) passes it around. It's kind of a ritual here. And we love people learning (and adopting) our culture. I think Zoe Saldaña is kind of addicted to the stuff
@@JuanmaAmagliani 100%. I can't wait to learn more. It sounds like a really nice ritual
Fun fact, that specific cup for Yerba Mate is a Porongo* (The straw is Bombilla). I got a silicone one a few years back. It has a very specific taste to it
I need to try the drink! I am intrigued now lol
That's a porongo the bombilla is the straw thingie
The gourd if it's made of gourd is called a porongo
@@velazquezarmouries OOHHHH ok thank you ^^. I tried it because a friend recommended it. Cl3ver, I will warn you that if you get the leaves, rinse out the first steep. It is, from what I have been told, extremely bitter. They do make canned versions now though. I got one at Kroger
@@Zeldur it haves the same effects of coffee
I just found this channel a couple of days ago and I am obsessed! 😍
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You could seal it with linseed oil. It hardnes after some day or weeks and is food safe and enogh heatresistent for tea/coffe
Make sure it's the raw oil, sometimes sold as flax oil, not the variety with chemical drying agents commonly sold for wood finishing.
Most epoxies don’t do well with heat.
I love your channel! Great video!
Live and learn lol. Thank you for watching!
This is exactly my thought. Just like direct sunlight makes craft resin flexible, the hot water from the kettle was enough to make the epoxy flexible and lose traction.
Awesome job, nice to see your touch on a regional inspired craft "*Smiles in argentinian*"
It was so fun to try out! "Smiles back in best Argentinian I can manage"
I love that sweater! So cool.
For getting the perfect circle for the twisted wire, wrap it around a pipe of the desired diameter a few times. After a couple wraps, the circles will be more concentric and you can get more in one go (similar idea to making the rings for chain mail).
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Dude i love these videos so much. I could watch them in an active warzone and still have fun. In fact, im watching this while falling asleep hopefully I finish the video before I
Mmmmmm tea.
For a proper porongo or mate gourd you have to cure it with geniever
Good to know!!!
@@SkillTree the antibacterial properties of the alcohol will help keep the gourd from developing mold Wich is really useful if you like sweet máte
Just realised... I own exactly the same model of drill as he does. Well, at least I know what to use it for now.
It's a really good drill 😂
I’m growing gourds for the first time this year, definitely probably going to try this
Love, love, love your enthusiasm. Your skills are crazy mad!
I love his sweaters! Every video, I'm amazed. Also, love the content
Awesome as always!
hey! love the content and exited to be early! i actually was watching this with a mug of tea in hand. just a suggestion: could you try making more bags ? i oddly love container videos.
Sure! I love containers tooooo lol
very cool seeing you use gourd for a chimarrão set
I always see them for sale on my country but never knew it could be made by hand
I might have to pick up a few of these gourds. They seem pretty useful.
They really are!!
For the cup. On the bottom portion just tie some sting around the legs and the pressure from the string will keep the legs in place.
I love the twisted wire look as in my culture we have multiple jewelry items that have a braiding or twisted wire look, known as Nameja/Namejs jewelry, its Latvian which are linked to Vikings and our rings look extremely similar to ancient Viking rings, its so cool.
I literally had the project not turning out how I wanted it thing today, lol. I'll find another use for it eventually
Yes! Finally, now Cl3ver has his hot beverage container!
Nicely done!
The little cup is so cute! I was thinking it would be nice if the two openings could nest together rather than balancing the small one on top. I'm actually shocked that the lip you created pours so cleanly; my commercial coffee pot dribbles more!
Love this stuff! Practical projects are the best.
Genuinely love the desk, have a similar one at home I use, but if you are genuinely experiencing back issues, you need to sort out that chair my friend. It isn’t helping your posture when sitting at all.
Once again a lovely video and as a tea drinking larper one to add to my list of things for Conquest and Drachenfest.
Look forward to bumping into your alter ego in character in Germany in the summer.
All the best Daniel aka Shogun Oto
A good idea, but I have a couple observations and suggestions. First, hot liquids make metal hot, which can feel uncomfortable against one's lips. Second, using two metals, steel and aluminum, might create a unwanted galvanic reaction. Third, if you wanted to make a pitcher, maybe leave the upper part of the gourd so that you can tie handles in the neck like you did with the water bottle, and; fourth, you can carve a spout. Fifth, you can create a set of cups by using the tops of several additional gourds, and; sixth, you can use the bottoms of those additional gourds as jars with lids of cork and/or wood for holding dry herbage for teas, tisanes, and tinctures or other sundry items.
Uncle Iroh would be proud.
Thanks!
i do believe they make Baileys specifically to make sure you have a morning drink to help you day drink. You can't day drink if you dont start at the beginning of the day.
I actually wanted to make a Mate with this. funky
You could make a ring for the smaller and larger cup to sit in.
Also, you can use a small piece of 100% cotton as a tea bag to keep all of your tea together.
Maybe use a small neodymium magnet to keep the two halves together easier
It'll be great for your herbalist Halfling Hench Healer, good video
Perfect!! I’ve been wanting to make a gourd!!
Love this one. Would be cool for day to day as well as larp
There's another thing you can use for future items. BAMBOO. There are so many things to make, and it can be found in almost every temperate climate. I've made cooking,drinking, eating items, weapons and more cheaply
Thanks
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The only thing I would have added/ changed to this is adding a hinge and a clasp of some sort so you can store your large tea bulbs in there before pouring in hot water perhaps.
I love this, I’m definitely going to have to try and make this after I’m done with my bookshelf
This sort of thing could be cool for my ranger who has a magic bottle that makes infinite tea. I don't drink tea myself so I had no idea what that would look like, but maybe it could look like this.
Bro. As much as I love when you plan something out and then execute it, watching your idea evolve was one of the most satisfying videos I’ve ever seen. I’d still love to see you do a gourd where the top part becomes a cup that also seals to the main body. Perhaps an internal neck that slides into the mouth of the smaller cup? And attaches to the larger vessel, but can still be detached. Just an idea.
Also, on your leather projects, have you ever thought of edge lacing? It looks super clean and adds strength and durability to the edges.
Keep leveling up, you.
it's been a while since I've been on this channel, feels like visiting an old friend. thanks for the video! reminds me of the simple improvised teacups in avatar that Uncle Iroh used while on the run. I've actually been waiting for you to make these since you made the beer steins. your finishes are getting better and you making things that look manufactured. you should level up your drawing skills though, lol. idk why but I find this piece truly moving, it is very beautiful I hope you enjoy it. especially when you think about the fact that this started as a seed, tree, fruit, now beautiful tea set. this is sincerely wonderful, and it brightened my day.
I really love this one. Thinking of making these for some friends in the SCA, going to try to come up with a way for it to have a screw top. (Don't want to use anything metal in it, last time I burned my lip when I made that mistake.) Thanks, and keep up the good work!!!
that came out gourd-ges
HA! I was a bit melon-choly today, but the more I read this gourd pun, the more it... grew on me and lifted my mood. Cheers
@@SkillTree LOL
Idea(s): If you add a ring of that braided wire to the bottom of the cup it will serve the same purpose as the legs.
Also you could use it to make a handle that doubles to lock the cup in place to the top using the same braided wire.
This is awesome! By the way, the sweater is gorgeous! Where does one acquire such a sweater?❤
Remember the word oops. Comes in handy alot.
Better than the string of curses that USUALLY comes out🤣
Brewers pitch will make your other cups and water bottle water proof and heat/cold tolerant.
There's another thing you can use for future items. BAMBOO. There are so many things to make, and it can be found in almost every temperate climate. I've made cooking. drinking eating items weapons and more cheaply
I'm drinking some mate right now
You might want to consider a replacement for the hot glue with the detail piece because you're using it with something hot and hot glue melts easily and with that sort of thing always seems to separate at some point.
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And we are happy you are!!!!
aluminium isn't 100% food safe ( nothing bad but use stainless steel if possible )
other than this detail i love the video !
i like video 😀
5:10 we have something similar in our office, they're a different brand bur literally the same concept
But how did you seal the inside?
I wondered the same thing
Another comment said the hkt water would have cured it so it wouldn't need a seal. Completely outside my expertise so I have no idea if that is right.
It didn't need to be sealed. Turns out the gourd will hold water just fine without it. Just need to cure it a bit by adding hot water and scraping out the gunk. I wouldn't do that with a bottle though as it won't dry fast enough and will mold
Where did you find the metal ring for the big one?
Gourds grow easily and can become invasive, so maybe throwing the seeds in your garden should be done with care.
Yeah. Generally, a good rule of thumb is to be careful what you plant and where. Never grown gourds to know but will they work for a pot garden?
Really good to know. I didn't know they were invasive.
Anyone else just automatically click like and then watch the video? 😆
i know you said you used aluminum wire to make the ring, but if you used something magnetic, or placed magnets on each side, it would hold itself together better and stay in the same place while traveling, food for thought
if you want to learn how to make some ridiculous wire weaves, check out the coils vapers have made over the years, all sorts of amazing looking wire there, and they also have some neat tools too wrap them for wicking that you could emulate around any dowel to get perfect circles of any diameter. :D
Cool project. And you’ve showed real growth. You didn’t even make a face while you were talking about rimming. 4:36
Funny story about gourds.
Before I moved to Argetnina, I was visiting my then girlfriend, now wife. We were at a souvenir shop. The lady who worked there, slowed down when she said the name of the mate gourd - porongo. She was worried that she said another word - poronga (slang for penis). My wife was laughing, I was oblivious
Interesting project, I'm not at that level yet. What did you use to seal this instead of the beeswax?
The inside isn't sealed, he cured it with hot water.
It will have a slight after taste from the gourd and will start to stain if he uses it for coffee or dark teas.
👆this!!! 😁
What if you made a winter ready poncho with a hood?🤔
Careful with reactive material and hot or acidic beverages. Last thing you want is heavy metal poisoning, or dementia related lead or aluminum ingestion
Personally I would have added a couple horizontal bands to tie the whole "cauldron" bit together. I'd also want to add a carrying/pouring handle of some kind to the pot, maybe using leather cord. Oh, and I'd want to add some kind of straining mechanism, like a sieve or slotted plate inside the pot that would keep the tea ingredients from pouring into the cup, or perhaps a separate little sieve/mesh catcher to hold over the cup while pouring. Maybe get overly ambitious and try to make the rim of the sieve a locking mechanism that holds the cup and pot together for transport/storage. Not sure how, exactly, but the idea is there.
You used a heat sensitive glue to glue down your thumb stud. I’d change that before you spill hot tea all over yourself or any equipment. Good job on your project though and I might do this for a Christmas present
Does anyone know which shirt/sweater is being worn I love it and want one
The heat affected the apoxy
In the first one, you used beeswax to make it waterproof. unless I spaced, you didn't use any sealant for this? was the beeswax un-necessary?
With the epoxy resin, did you rough up the spot on the gourd where it was attaching? The surfaces can be really slick and it may not have been able to hold firmly to the gourd.
I did! It is so weird how it failed to take.
I'm a bit shocked that you didn't line the insides with anything more than hot water. What all could be used for that?
Ah. The gourds are all sold out. I'm noticing a trend here...
As for the project... I'd have used the food safe silicone glue instead of the epoxy. Epoxy just doesn't seem to like organic things. It can work for wood, but anything else is unpredictable at best. Maybe there's a way to treat the gourd surface, maybe a thin layer of epoxy and let it cure before trying to use more epoxy to glue down the aluminum. Maybe also using a couple bands of wire would help hold the legs into place in a decorative way. If you want to try the cute cauldron style again. (P.s. I hate 2 part epoxy. It's always a disaster, probably because of my climate or time of year or whatever, so, biased I am.)
It could be cute to use more of the aluminum strip to make handles, but you definitely need decorative wrapping to reinforce it, or silicone to waterproof the rivets that would hold the handle on. Those would be easier than cutting a couple of slots for the aluminum to feed into- and seal gaps with silicone, of course.
I can go on forever with ideas, so I'm going to stop here...
Perhaps someone can help me because I think I’m missing something. Why does he have to coat the water bottle version with wax but can just raw dog the hot beverage version?
You should do something out of a coconut
Most quick epoxies don't hold up to heat.
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i'm sorry, but erva mate is the type of plant you put in the cup, and since that drink is popular in a lot of countries in south america, it dont have a comon name, but in brasil its called chimarrão, but if you drink it cold its called tereré
i'm sorry for being the asshole that points error in everything
english is my second language, sorry for gramatical errors
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i love that the end of this video kind of turned into a fun queer allegory haha
100%. I didn't intend that but I love it. Everyone deserves the space to just be what they wanna be and be loved for who they are. Full stop.
The "better as something else" bit was a great allegory for being transgender
Really neat little set. Those gourds are really versatile. I'm concerned about the metal rings you used along the rims, though. Unless they are food-safe you may end up with metals like nickel, lead, aluminum, etc. leeching into your drink. Also, your beverage may heat them up while you're drinking, which gets pretty uncomfortable on the lips (I know this one from personal experience with a camping mug I purchased a while back).
That was myu concern too. I know that aluminum is not good to use for hot drinking vessels, and uncoated it isn't good for cold either. He did use Aluminum for the wire in both so that will come in contact with the drinks.
I actually use nontoxic food safe resin to coat. As long as I’m careful when I turn it to coat it. It works and I also use it to make custom bottles with mica and edible sparkle dust.
What brand do you use? I have had a beast of a time finding a good food safe resin
@Skill Tree the main concern related to the use of fully cured epoxy resin as a food container is identical to the concern surrounding other plastic items that hold food, BPA leaching. A hot drink does increase the amount of leaching compared to a cold drink but many containers also use plastic with BPA so if you are replacing a plastic container your consumption of BPA doesn't change. Additionally as this device would only be used a couple days per year the increase would not be a problem, mostly because we are constantly consuming BPA all the time and have bee since the 60s
This is great. It's surreal that gourds are so versatile.
Totally getting Uncle Iroh vibes from this :)
Aside from the booze, he’s pretty wholesome.😉🤣
1. The legs didn't adhere because the skin of the gourd is not just waterproof, it's glueproof too. I didn't particularly like those legs so yay failure!
2. If you can find a tea strainer that's the same diameter as the opening on the pot, you'll have an easier time with using loose tea. I bet you can.
3. Every single project I've ever worked on is a repurposed version of a previous project I made. I think it must be part of my creative process. Or I just can't leave things alone.
4. Great job!
Oooooooh, good call on the strainer! I will need to look and find one!.
@@SkillTree That looks almost the size of the drop in strainers from the cups David's Tea sells? I might be miss reading the size, but if the opening is roughly 70% the size of a standard skinny coffee mug it should fit?
Your builds are what got me started as a Renfair vendor, but c'mon man I can only stock so many items 😅 gotta add this to my wares
Btw how would you want me to credit your designs?
It would be interesting to find a way to attach the cup to the teapot for traveling. Maybe have some threaded metal?
I love the tiny cup, and the fact that you're using it as a lid while your tea steeps in the larger container means that your cup is heated a bit before you pour the tea. The set looks amazing!
Food grade resin/epoxy would further waterproof and reinforce the inside of those gourds….