Getting up, Evelyn went over to find the particular wood she needed. She knew what oak wood looked like, though was english oak wood different from it? Trying to remember what it looked like, the Slytherin ruled out a lot of the woods down to two. Alas, she hopefully chose the correct kind. Finally taking one unicorn hair, she went back to the table she was working at and sat down. Time to start.

The length, she figured, would have been somewhere around eleven and a half. Why that number, she had no clue, but it sounded pretty good. Taking out her own wand, she held it against the wood so she was able to measure it. Hers was ten and a third long, so this wand wouldn't be much bigger.

Keeping an eye on the measurements, she quickly "Diffindo"d both ends so she was left was a wand sized twig, though it still looked like...a twig. She thought perhaps using diffindo to at least fix the outside. But alas, another popped up in her mind that would have been much more useful. The tongue twister of a spell that almost cost her a letter grade for her Herbology OWL. "Flipsnipwitit." Thank Merlin she'd had practice since then though. Still a tongue twister though.

Repeating the spell until the outside was considerably less bumpy and looked to have had the effect of the bark being sanded off, she thought about making designs in the wand, but...no. She didn't have time. "Defodio." she muttered, creating a nice hole in the end of the wand. How else was she supposed to get the core in there? Wrap it around the outside?

Carefully placing the unicorn hair inside of the wand, she stared at the open end, thinking. Well this was a bummer. Taking one of the end trig pieces that was discarded, she cut off a smaller piece, trying to get it the right size to fit the hole. FIT! Darnit. She still had to write another essay, and this was taking forever. Finally obtaining the right size, she held her wand pointed at the end, and traced around it. "Adhaero." Sticking charm...for the win.

"Glisseo." Smoothing out the rest of the wood, she beamed and placed the finished product on the table in front of her. Done! Right? She was done. It wasn't particularly detailed, but one could see that it was a wand. Sorta. As she had worked on it though, the thought of the flexibility had come in mind. At first, the idea of a flexible wand sounded best, yet as she thought about it, a sturdy wand sounded better. And that was not because then she could skip trying to make the wood more 'flexible' and be done quicker either.

Cleaning off the table and packing up her notes, she stood up, ready to leave. The faster she did, the faster she could get other stuff done!