Questions tagged [wood]
Specifically for questions about crafts primarily using wood.
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What can I line a collectible card box with that is not felt or flocking?
I made a card box, for holding Magic cards, a while ago, and I lined it with felt. While that does look good all the plastic sleeves I use get caught on the material so it is difficult to put them ...
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Learning to work with a rotary tool
More or less by occasion as I searched for something original I could craft myself, I decided to craft a walnut jewelry box for the proposal. It went well! :-)
For this purpose I had bought a rotary ...
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How to lubricate toothpicks for model building?
I'm trying to assemble a model chronograph. At several steps, the instructions say to insert wooden cocktail sticks (toothpicks) through narrow holes in wheels. Unfortunately, the supplied toothpicks ...
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Which paint and glue to use for a golden walnut?
My goal is to craft a "golden" walnut by painting two empty shell halves and then glue them together.
So, my requirements on the paint are:
color will be golden if this matters
should not smear off
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Should I stain wood then use acrylic or vice versa?
I am creating a wooden gaming board and would like to stain the wood as well as paint an acrylic decoration on it. Can I stain the wood first, paint with acrylics, then put a sealer coat on it or will ...
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How do I get reddish scorch marks with a laser cutter?
I'm trying to burn some nametags, but I'm getting inconsistent results.
In the image below, the tag on the right, with the reddish scorch marks, is what I'd like.
The tags on the left, with the ...
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Stencil on wood issue
I have a board that I stained and poly’d and now am having trouble with the final step. I have script alphabet stencils and can’t seem to find a great way to use them.
I have stencil brushes and am ...
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Adhesive for applying keyboard keys to wood
I have a mosaic made of keyboard keys that I made by gluing the keys to a piece of cardboard. After some time, the cardboard has begun to warp under the weight of the affixed keys.
I now have a ...
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Wood used for Christmas Colored Flame Yule Logs?
What type of wood and its' thickness would be get the best results for making Christmas colored flame yule logs?
I would like to try and make colored flamed yule logs this year. What type of wood ...
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Attaching wood to glass?
I want to make a floor/plateau in a glass terrarium.
A dwarf hamster will use it, so they're not very heavy, but I'd like to be able to place some things like a small food dish, maybe some ...
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What is the best way to apply felt to wood?
I have multiple projects I am working on that are mounted on pieces of wood. I was planning on putting felt on the back of the wood so that they do not scratch the wall when they are hung or mounted ...
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Best way to restore my old vintage wooden Cricket bat- (See description)
I own a vintage, wooden bat which I wanted to restore by myself, for myself.
Some of the areas where I required help are:
1) Removing stickers and their marks:
There are these old stickers on the ...
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Materials for pictures that change with the direction of sunlight
What materials can be used to make pictures / paintings, where the colors change as the direction of the sun and hence the angle of incidence of the sun rays hitting the art structure changes? I'm ...
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Can these tree tunks be used for a small table?
The other day I found these two sections of a tree trunk in the street. So I'm wondering, can they be prepared to be used as some type of rustic stump table?
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Wooden surface sticky
I build a wooden table and put stain on it. After some months I put lacquer on it, which is made for that kind of stain. After two, three weeks I realized that it doesn't really protect anything. When ...
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How to apply rubber to wood?
I have a pair of wooden geta I bought from Tokyo and would like to wear them outside. I tend to scuff all my shoes when I walk, regardless of shoe type, and I would really like to preserve these shoes ...
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What are the typical wood types used for Japanese traditional woodblock printing?
What are the typical wood types used for Japanese traditional woodblock printing?
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Possible to model Viking longboat with Popsicle sticks?
I bought 100 normal popsicle sticks with the idea that I could submerge them in almost boiling water to model them into a viking ship. Before I give it a shot, is there anything I should be aware of? ...
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Can Rustoleum wood stain bleed through a mounted photograph?
On a piece of pine wood, I want to mount a photograph. I stained the wood with Rustoleum cherry stain. It’s dry now and I am ready to mount the photograph. Do I need to put a layer of paper or lacquer ...
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Soldering iron to make holes in sticks?
I am making hamster toys and equipment. I have successfully used a soldering iron to make holes in plastic and cardboard. My question is, can I use it to make holes in small sticks? (As in small ...
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Wooden panels start to shift
I made a table and screwed the panels together via two separate wooden bars and even with one aluminium bar. I did that in the base room. Now the table is in my flat and the panels are moving away ...
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How to deal with the burnt edges of laser cut MDF?
I'm making a Hanabi set out of laser cut MDF. When you laser MDF it has a burnt cut edge.
This can be sanded off, however the tiles are supposed to be indistinguishable from one side, and I'm ...
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Staining wood blue with chemicals
I know about the process of 'ebonizing' wood (using steel wool + vinegar to turn wood black), and I have seen excellent results using this process.
I was wondering if it is possible to use a similar ...
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High accuracy transfer of cutting blueprint onto plywood
I'm looking to cut a bunch of interlocking pieces from plywood. As a cheaper alternative to laser cutting (I've got a quote for 90 bucks) I'm exploring my options to do this by hand.
What would be ...
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Treating pine to prevent oil leaking
I'm in the process of preparing a pine wooden box to hold a large number of cardboard wallets for storing a card game collection, but there appears to be some oil or something like it inside the wood ...
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I want to glue shells onto a mirror frame which is very old, dark wood, varnished. What glue should I use?
Gluing shells onto a frame made of wood covered in varnish.
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Oops! Rubber cement on wood cleanup?
My son was making a birdhouse. He asked if he could use the rubber cement (Elmer's), and I said it was okay. I didn't know he was going to use our dining room table as his workspace.
Everything ...
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Line cutting technique for wood blocks: japanese vs. western
Does the line cutting technique in western wood block printing differ from the one in japanese wood cut?
In japanese wood block printing the line is cut almost exclusively by a sharp pointed knife - ...
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Aligning multi-color woodblock print?
I know how the registration of wood blocks works in the Japanese-style wood block printing method (put registration marks on the block to align the paper: see this YouTube channel). Since the ...
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How do I cut a popsicle stick lengthwise?
Need to do this for my art project. I tried using a normal wire cutter but the wood just doesnt break
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How to attach copper wire (8 gauge) to wood (Eastern White Pine)?
We are looking to add a bit of "bling" to a the bar in a nano-brewery tasting room. The front of the bar (where your legs go if you are sitting at the bar) is 8" tongue-and-groove with a V-groove at ...
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Photo transfer on wood
Does anyone know if its possible to do a photo transfer (using a laser printed photo) to wood without mod podge or using something cheaper.
I want to do some transfers for my cub scout den but it ...
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How can I attach casters to a 1/4" plywood board when I only have access to one side?
I built a prop that consists of a box with casters on the bottom. The bottom of the box is 1/4" plywood. The casters are attached with machine screws; the nut and top of the screw are hidden by fabric ...
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What kind of paints should I use to color / paint on bright wood material?
I bought a very small chest for holding small desk items, the chest itself being small enough to stand on a desk.
It is raw, unfinished wood, though it has been sanded smooth. I'm not sure what sort ...
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How to avoid / deal with rough edges after painting plywood?
I want to make a plywood owl lamp similar to this one. After sawing the pieces and polishing them, I tried painting them using watercolours. The colour looks good, but the wood has become rough on the ...
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What are possible sources of wood pieces from for making musical instruments?
I've always wanted to make electric guitars myself. However, it seems a bit hard to find the right supply of wood to do so, as musical instruments usually require naturally dried wood pieces for ...
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Is regular “wood glue” suitable for lighter woods (e.g. balsa)?
My daughter's dollhouse, after years of fairly rough use by many enthusiastic children, needs some fixing up. In particular, the staircase has split in half. Luckily it's a clean break, and I should ...
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What type of glue will work well on wood and metal?
As per this question I'm needing to glue a wood veneer inlay into a metal bracelet, but don't know what type of glue to use.
I have a tube of Gorilla Glue, which I know is suitable for wood - should ...
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How do you bond clear acrylic to wood?
I am trying to glue a piece of clear acrylic 2mm thick to a piece of plywood that is 5mm thick. They are both 76mm by 50mm and rectangular in shape. They have some cutouts in the middle. It's supposed ...
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What kind of bamboo should I use for making a Chinese fan?
I've started making a functional fan, and I was wondering what kind of wood or bamboo (I prefer bamboo) I should use to make the body of the fan.
I kinda searched around using words like "thin", but ...
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What kind of glue to make a magnet adhere to wood?
I've had these two small wooden heart magnets given to me a year ago, but over time, both hearts have fallen off their magnets. They seem to be attached by a thing sheet of some kind of clear glue ...
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What are good methods to attach glass to wood?
I'm a woodworker and I really like turning. While I've made some beautiful goblets on my lathe, I'm always a little leery about recommending them for actual drinking. On top of that many of them do ...
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How can I safely cut pieces off a small wooden cube?
I would like to make some small wooden cuboctahedron, that is something of this shape:
They should be about 2cm high. So, my idea is to take a long wooden piece (2cm x 2cm x 200cm) and cut some small ...
