Stylish items made from wood cuts serve as an excellent interior decoration. They harmoniously fit into any style, create a cozy atmosphere in the house. Wood products are safe and durable.
Thanks to the original design made of annual rings, any craft made from such material is unique. A lot of interesting ideas can be realized with your own hands, using wood cuts as a material.
Material properties
For work, use the elements obtained as a result of end sawing of tree trunks. Stumps, trunks, twigs and branches of trees can be used as raw materials.
For harvesting, you can take fresh wood. Drying parts at high temperatures promotes the formation of textured cracks on them.
The wood species is selected depending on the type of product:
- coniferous wood is great for making children's crafts, toys, platbands, home interior details,
- wooden elements of garden decor require solid wood species (birch, oak, beech) as raw materials.
What can be used for crafts
For beginners, you can use:
- branches of different diameters, lengths and smoothness;
- hemp - they can also be different in shape, height and diameter;
- cuts of trees in different directions, both along the fibers and across.
For beginners, making crafts from tree branches is suitable, this will greatly simplify the manufacture of any item with your own hands, since it does not require special skills in craftsmanship.
For those who have already gained experience, designing various things from wood, you can choose both materials found in natural conditions and purchased wood.
For experienced craftsmen, you can use both cheaper wood species and valuable ones. Purchased wood, especially expensive species such as oak, hornbeam, ash, etc. will require certain financial costs.
Material preparation
To harvest quality parts, you will need to be able to handle a hacksaw or circular saw to get a neat cut of wood.
Material procurement procedure:
- selection of wood (knots, branches, logs),
- removal of bark and sawing in the transverse direction,
- grinding the cut, drying, polishing,
- processing with compositions for the manifestation of the texture of the picture,
- processing with compositions from rot, varnishing.
Working on the blanks will take time and skill. The result is beautiful parts for making a wide variety of products. There are many options for end-cut wood products, from crafts for children to home or garden items.
For further work, you need a jigsaw and glue, if necessary, additional decorative elements.
Detailed study
When you have the finished shape on hand, a sketch and a pencil will come in handy again. Now you need to apply a detailed drawing to the finished blank. Proceeding from it, the jewelry work of the carver begins. Before starting work, each master sharpens all the tools. Sharpening is done under the watchful eye of the master. On an emery wheel, the blade is sharpened on both sides.When sharpening, the blade is lowered into water, cooled, then removed, then sharpening continues with a drop of water at the very tip of the blade. You need to carefully monitor it, because when it evaporates, this indicates that it is time to put the blade in the water again.
After that, the blade is fine-tuned on a diamond wheel or corundum, while the shaft rotates in the opposite direction from the tool. And finally, you need to edit the edge with a felt or leather circle smeared with GOI paste. As you can see in the photos presented in the article, do-it-yourself figurines made of wood can be processed with a knife or with a whole set of tools. According to the drawing, the outline of the base of the figure is cut out, then it is worked out in detail with chisels and other cutters.
Wooden images of animals and birds
A good option for decorating a home or garden would be simple figures of animals or birds.
Wood owl
- You will need two round elements with a diameter of 20 and 15 cm. This is the basis for crafts.
- To these elements, using glue or nails, you need to attach 2 circles of a smaller diameter. These are the eyes of birds.
- To design the wings, two rounded blanks must be cut in half. They are fixed on both sides of the base.
- Pupils can be made from beads.
For a special effect, it is better not to remove the bark from the blanks.
Similarly, a bunny, a cat, a hedgehog, fairy-tale characters and cartoon characters.
Carving tools
Here we will consider what exactly may be needed for the manufacture of figures, wood carving. The most primitive tool that can help you master the difficult skill of a carver is a knife. To get started, only two are useful - a pen and a knife-joint. With these tools, you can make simple figures that even a beginner can make. When you want to improve, you can purchase more professional tools. A set of chisels with different bends and sharpening angles are perfect for this job. Their names: angular, cranberry, straight, oblique, semicircular. Also, they are not only of different types, but differ in size, bending radius, sharpening angle. Such subtleties help the master to make the carving more embossed and lively.
Practical home crafts from wood cuts
There are many ideas for using wood cuts for the manufacture of interior design elements and various useful things.
Crafts for the kitchen
Beautiful objects made of natural wood will perfectly fit into the interior of the kitchen. In addition to decorative functions, they can be used for their intended purpose.
A well-cut wide cut of wood can be used to make a cutting board.
Practical kitchen utensil stands can be made in a variety of ways.
The simplest of them is to take a cut of a sufficiently large diameter. Cuts from branches can be connected with studs and laths in one or two layers. It is not necessary to apply varnish for this purpose of the product.
If hot stands are made of coniferous wood, then when heated they will fill the room with a pleasant aroma.
Decor for mirrors and photo frames
Small pieces of wood can be great decorative elements for a photo frame or mirror.
For work, you need a plywood base. The size of this base should be larger than the size of the mirror by the width of the intended frame. The edges must be additionally processed with sandpaper, you can paint the base in the desired color.
Fastening the finished product to the wall should be thought out in advance by fixing the hinge or the bar on the back wall of the base.
Wooden elements are glued to the base along the contour, forming a frame.
If this is a frame for a mirror, then the mirror itself must be planted on liquid nails.
Once dry, you can put the mirror back in place.
Wall panels
The creation of an interesting wall panel from saw cuts gives room for imagination.The size and shape can be any, and the use of various types of wood is permissible as a material.
The work begins with making the frame. Parts are placed in the finished frame, and the voids between them are filled with epoxy resin or painted over with paint.
Wooden saw cut clock
To implement this idea, you will need a clock mechanism, a beautiful wood saw cut, a drill, paint and a brush.
Step by step instructions for work.
- The surface of the wooden blank must be well processed.
- Use a drill to make a hole for the clock mechanism in the designated place.
- Cover the workpiece with varnish or paint.
- Designate the clock face (draw, stick or burn out numbers).
- Will fix the mechanism.
The path to the heights of art
Also, in the form of an applied purpose, crafts are often created from wooden sticks. These gizmos are usually made for convenience. For example, a bookmark for books.
A face made of colored paper is glued onto a wooden ice cream stick. And the bookmark is ready.
Also, a wooden stick is used in flower pots as tags with numbers or inscriptions. But there are other uses as well. It happens that a whole house is built from sticks.
If you have a lot of ice cream sticks in stock, building a house from them is useful fun for children. Working with ice cream sticks, as well as with matches - develops the fingers of children.
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Building a house with these materials is not an easy task. Here you need the accuracy of the movements. Of course, the house in both cases is built using glue. It is built in layers, gradually.
One row of walls of the house has dried up, another is being completed. And so on to the top of the walls. And there you have to put the roof. It took a long time to build a house. There are beautiful works of art here. There are people who are capable of making masterpieces from ordinary gizmos.
Crafts and toys for children
From saw cuts you can make many different crafts for a school exhibition or kindergarten.
Toys from this material look original: stylized animal figures, play furniture.
Many ideas for New Year's crafts from saw cuts can be found on the Internet: snowmen, snowflakes, flowers, ornaments with a pattern applied to them.
From coniferous saw cuts, you can make unusual Christmas trees that will not only decorate the room for the holiday, but also fill the house with the scent of pine needles.
To make a Christmas tree of a classic triangular shape, you will need a frame made of thin slats. Round blanks must be placed inside the frame, the voids must be filled with transparent glue or epoxy resin.
Garden furniture in the form of stools
Small armchairs that can be made of wood of the appropriate diameter and height, if you hollow out seating places in a large saw cut. For convenience, they can be decorated with soft poufs.
You can also make a table from horizontally sawn boards with uneven edges.
The structure will look especially impressive if you combine wood with epoxy resin. The design options are not limited in this case, and the appearance is attractive and stylish.
You can also make a coffee table for the interior. It can be made of both longitudinal and transverse cuts.
Garden interior items from saw cuts
Slices of solid species of trees look spectacular in the manufacture of items and elements of garden design.
Bird feeders
The bird feeder is one of the most traditional wood crafts.
Birch wood is well suited for work. You can make an original bird feeder from round cuts of a tree, supplementing them with sticks and knots. The craft can be made from plywood and slats, and use wood cuts and bark for decoration. It is important that the construction is safe for birds.
Garden paths
Paths and paths on the site, lined with saw cuts made of hardwood, will not only make the landscape unique, but will also last long enough with the right approach to performing the work.
An important step is the preparation of the material. It is necessary to get slices of the same thickness from the log. The recommended size is about 15 cm. They must be treated with an antiseptic.
A shallow trench is dug at the site of the future track, a layer of film is laid on the bottom, crushed stone is poured. The material is carefully leveled and compacted.
A layer of sand should be poured over the rubble. To shrink the materials, the trench is spilled with water. Wooden blanks are stacked in random order. The voids between them are filled with sand.
It is important to place the wood pieces as close to each other as possible.
Decorative flowerpots
Such original products are an excellent addition to the garden area.
They can be made from a wide saw cut of a tree. It is important to use healthy wood. An oak cut is not suitable for work due to its high strength. Better to use birch or beech.
You can make a flowerpot as follows.
- Retreat at least 5 cm from the edge of the workpiece and mark the outlines.
- Drill several holes with a drill and pour the saltpeter into them. You can cut unwanted wood with a chainsaw.
The size and shape of the products depends on the source material. Such elements of garden design do not require additional decoration.
Useful work
In schools, on the topic: how to make wooden crafts, they give an assignment. Make a birdhouse out of wood. If done diligently, it can turn out like this. First, a site is built in the form of a square.
It is cut from plywood. On top of a plywood square, 4 slats are sewn with screws along the edges. Then the frame of the birdhouse is built. From slats. Plywood is sewn onto the constructed frame from all sides.
An opening is cut out from the front for the entry of the birds. When all 4 sides of the walls are reinforced, a roof is built. Also made of plywood. Triangle. So that there was a canopy at the roof. Now you can hang the birdhouse on a suitable tree.
Pour crumbs there. A birdhouse built of wood is the best. It is more beautiful, looks aesthetically pleasing. And there are more benefits from such a craft for children. The job requires a lot of concentration and dedication.
Furniture from saw cuts
Using wood cuts, you can make original and functional garden furniture.
It's not hard to make a beautiful table.
- To make a table, you need to put together a supporting part.
- Additional bumpers are made on top.
- Slices are properly processed, polished, placed in a frame.
- The cavities between the parts of the countertop are filled with epoxy resin.
- After drying, the product is carefully sanded.
In a similar way, you can arrange a stool, a small bench, decorate a gazebo.
The use of wood cuts in the manufacture and decoration of home and garden interiors is gaining popularity. The material is safe for health. The products are distinguished by their low cost. And they perfectly complement the interior.
