How to make a plywood tree?

Plywood is a popular and affordable material from which you can make a large number of different decorative products and gifts with your own hands. The shape and design of crafts can be absolutely any. In this article, we'll show you how you can make an adorable Christmas tree out of plywood.

Nowadays, plywood crafts have become insanely popular. Many people enjoy working with this material, constantly improving their initial skills. Often, after some time, craftsmen switch to working with wood.

Plywood has a number of advantages that make it so popular among lovers of original homemade products.

• It is dense and durable... This material is multilayer, due to which it has a sufficient degree of rigidity.
• Plywood pliable... Even very complex structures can be made from it. The main thing is to have blueprints, a flow chart and use the right tools.
• From the material in question, attractive crafts are obtained that can be left untreated, but you can paint or varnish to make them look even more attractive and brighter - each master decides for himself what to do.
• Plywood refers to environmentally friendly and safe materials. It cannot harm human health. Crafts made from plywood sheets can be displayed even in children's rooms.
• The material is accessible.

Before starting work, it is important to prepare materials and tools that will be needed at each stage. It is recommended to prepare everything in advance and place it in one place, next to you.This will make it much more convenient to work, and if necessary, you will not have to look for the desired object throughout the house.

From the materials you will need to stock up on the following items:

• a sheet of plywood (the material must be of a high class, free from defects and damage, erased areas or "burrs");
• it is advisable to stock a special radiator paint with a water base;
• not superfluous will be a bright LED garland of one or more colors.

The wizard will also need some important tools, namely:

• a circular saw;
• manual electric jigsaw;
• pencil and carpenter's knife;
• spray gun for more convenient and even distribution of the coloring component;
• sequins;
• you can choose the right spray paint;
• a sheet of sandpaper and a brush.

Sometimes, instead of sandpaper, people use electric sander. If you have this useful tool at home, then you can use it while making a plywood tree. Experienced craftsmen advise using only high-quality tools in their work, on which there are no damaged or poorly fixed parts. The fact is that such devices can let the user down at the most crucial moment, and this will negatively affect the appearance of the homemade product.

It is also recommended to buy sandpaper with varying grain size (if you grind with this tool).

It is quite possible to make a Christmas tree made of plywood with your own hands. The main thing is to act carefully, not to rush. It is preliminarily recommended to draw up a detailed diagram of the future product or download a template from the Internet. Today, many successful projects of plywood trees can be found in the public domain, among which it will be possible to find the best option without unnecessary problems.

And now let's take a step-by-step analysis of the technology for making such a homemade decoration for the home.

• The first thing you need to do is transfer the given template images to the surface of the plywood sheet. After that, each of the details of the future Christmas tree will need to be carefully cut from a multi-layer base. You can do it simply: load the template into a special laser cutting machine. If you do not have such a device in stock, you can transfer all the template parts manually (for this, tracing paper or copy paper is often used). Then the blanks are carefully cut out. Be as careful as possible when working on the spiral detail of the future Christmas tree. The spiral will simulate the crown of a tree. Any shortcomings on it will immediately become noticeable.

This step should not be neglected. The workpieces should not have a single roughness, protruding burrs or uneven areas on the surface. Watch this carefully.

• Next, you need to take a part, which in the future will act as the trunk of the New Year's tree. Gently thread this "part" with the tip and pass it straight into the groove in the central part of the spiral. Then follows carefully, but still carefully straighten the twisted part. This should be done by gradually lowering it to the bottom (the base of the "trunk"). Then you will need to insert the lower half of the crown into the side grooves on the trunk. Place the star firmly at the very top of the tree. It will need to be inserted into a special groove prepared for this purpose.

• After that, you can safely move on to decorating a homemade tree. There may be several options for the external design of homemade products. For example, leave it in its original form, do not paint or add anything. And you can only cover it with a special varnish, if you wish.Many craftsmen still do not leave the product too inconspicuous, they paint both the star of the Christmas tree and herself. Most often, standard paints are used for this. If you want to make the design more elegant and festive, then it makes sense to sprinkle the top layer of paint with a small amount of shining sparkles of the shade you like. Additionally, a homemade design can be decorated with garlands of your favorite colors.

If you did everything carefully, without haste, then the result will surely please you. This piece of jewelry can be of any size you want. Some craftsmen prefer to make miniature tabletop constructions, while others make them very tall (like real trees).

If you decide to make a beautiful Christmas tree out of plywood with your own hands, you should take on board some useful tips and tricks for the successful implementation of all stages of work.

1. It is recommended to cut out small details that will be in the construction of a plywood tree with a jigsaw. Most often, craftsmen use an electric hand tool, since it is easier and faster to work with it.
2. If there are traces of cuts on the cut parts, they must be carefully processed with emery.
3. Many craftsmen coat the blanks with special radiator paint. It dries very quickly and is environmentally friendly.
4. If you decide to paint the tree, you can use a brush, but then the painting process will be noticeably delayed. It will be possible to save time and effort with a spray bottle.
5. A plywood tree can be a wonderful eco-friendly decoration for a child's room. Children will be happy if there is such a "beauty" in their cozy corner. Often, kids begin to decorate such trees on their own, which takes them for a long time and gives a lot of pleasure.
6. When using a jigsaw, try not to cut parts with it, making too sharp movements. It is advisable to move calmly and keep the instrument level. Otherwise, the product may not turn out to be the most neat and attractive.
7. Find the best place in the room for the plywood tree. The product should become an original decoration of the interior, and not knock out of it, introducing disharmony. Think carefully about this question.
8. The structure can be additionally decorated by fixing something like Christmas tree decorations. To do this, people very often supplement plywood structures with glued beads, flat multi-colored balls made of paper or cardboard, and small plastic stars. Sometimes they hang sweets on such a tree.

A correctly and neatly made Christmas tree made of multilayer material can become a harmonious interior decoration. With such a component, the atmosphere becomes more positive, hospitable and cozy. Consider a few successful examples of such beautiful crafts made specifically for the New Year.

• Plywood Christmas trees can be made in the most unexpected way. This could be a pair of unpainted, but well-finished, high-rise triangles set against a free wall in the room. You can hang small New Year's decorations and lights on the products, put candles on the floor next to them, and hang tinsel under the Christmas tree branches on top of the crafts. The solution will turn out to be extraordinary and very interesting.

• Several pieces of plywood can be used to make small wall tree, the inner part of which will be reserved for compact shelves for various New Year's decorations - candles, figurines and figurines. The triangular halves of the product can be made of light plywood, and the lower part (trunk) can be painted dark brown.

• You can make very original plywood Christmas trees by making a white triangular base, and fill its inner part with Christmas decorations in white and silver colors, "diluted" with fluffy tinsel. The top of the improvised Christmas trees should be decorated with large white snowflakes made in the shape of stars. To make the designs look brighter and more attractive, it is advisable to supplement their internal space with discreet lights of a calm color.

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