How to make a Christmas tree from plywood?

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 will learn how to make a charming Christmas tree out of plywood.

Nowadays, plywood crafts have become incredibly popular. Many people are happy to work with this material, constantly improving their initial skills. Often, after some time, masters move on to working with wood.

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

• It is solid and durable.. This material is multilayer, due to which it has a sufficient degree of rigidity.
• Plywood compliant. Even very complex structures can be made of 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 without processing, and you can paint or varnish to make them look even more attractive and brighter - each master decides for himself what is the best way to do it.
• Plywood refers to environmentally friendly and safe materials. It cannot harm human health. Crafts from plywood sheets can be displayed even in children's rooms.
• Material is affordable.

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

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

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

The wizard will need some important tools, namely:

• a circular saw;
• manual electric jigsaw;
• pencil and carpentry knife;
• spray gun for more convenient and uniform distribution of the coloring component;
• sparkles;
• You can choose the right spray paint;
• a piece of sandpaper and a brush.

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

It is also recommended to buy sandpaper with varying degrees of grain (if you will be grinding with this device).

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

And now step by step we will analyze the technology of making such a home-made decoration for the home.

• First thing you will need 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 multilayer base. You can do it simply: load the template into a special laser cutting machine. If you don’t have such a machine in stock, you can transfer all the template parts manually (often use tracing paper or carbon paper). Then the blanks are neatly cut. Be extremely careful when working on the spiral detail of a future Christmas tree. A spiral will imitate the crown of a tree. Any flaws on it will immediately become noticeable.

This step should not be neglected. Workpieces should not have any surface roughness, protruding burrs or uneven areas on the surface. Watch this carefully.

• Next, you need to take the part, which in the future will act as the trunk of the New Year tree. Carefully thread this “spare part” with the tip and pass straight into the groove in the central part of the spiral. Then follows carefully but still carefully straighten the twisted part. This must be done, gradually lowering it to the bottom (the base of the "trunk"). Then you need to insert the lower half of the crown into the side grooves on the trunk. Securely lock the star at the very top of the tree. It will need to be inserted into a special groove prepared for these purposes.

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

If you did everything carefully, without rushing, then the result will surely please you. Such a decoration can have any size you want. Some craftsmen prefer to make miniature tabletop constructions, while others make them very tall (similar to real trees).

If you decide to make a beautiful Christmas tree out of plywood with your own hands, it’s worth taking some useful tips and recommendations on the successful conduct of all stages of work.

1. Small details that will be in the construction of the plywood tree are recommended to be cut with a jigsaw. Most often, craftsmen use an electric hand tool, since working with it is easier and faster.
2. If there are traces of cuts left on the cut parts, they must be carefully treated with emery.
3. Many craftsmen coat workpieces with special radiator paint. It dries very quickly and is environmentally friendly.
4. If you decide to paint the Christmas tree, you can use a brush, but then the painting process will be noticeably delayed. You can save time and energy with the help of a spray gun.
5. Plywood tree can be a great eco-friendly decoration for a child’s room. Children will rejoice if such a “beauty” is in their cozy corner. Often, kids take to decorate such Christmas trees on their own, which takes them for a long time and gives a lot of pleasure.
6. Using a jigsaw, try not to cut parts with it, making too sharp movements. It is advisable to move quietly, keep the tool level. Otherwise, the product may not be the most accurate and attractive.
7. Choose the best place for the plywood tree in the room. The product should become an original decoration of the interior, and not get out of it, introducing disharmony. Ponder this matter well.
8. The design can be further decorated by fixing something like Christmas tree decorations. To do this, people very often supplement plywood designs with glued beads, flat multi-colored balls of paper or cardboard, small plastic stars. Sometimes they hang candies on such a Christmas tree.

Correctly and accurately made Christmas tree from multilayer material can become a harmonious decoration of the interior. With such a component, the atmosphere becomes more positive, hospitable and comfortable. Consider some successful examples of such beautiful crafts made especially for the New Year.

• Plywood Christmas trees can be made in the most unexpected way. This may be a pair of unpainted, but well-crafted triangles of large height, installed near the free wall in the room. On the products you can hang small New Year's decorations and lights, put candles next to the floor, and hang tinsel under Christmas tree branches above the crafts. The solution will be extraordinary and very interesting.

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

• You can make very original plywood Christmas trees by making a triangular base of white color, and fill its inside with Christmas toys of white and silver colors, “diluted” with fluffy tinsel. The top of improvised Christmas trees should be decorated with large white snowflakes made in the shape of stars. To make the structures look brighter and more attractive, it is desirable to supplement their interior space with low-key lights of calm color.

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