Wooden vase made from a flat panel. Detailed photo report - Alexander

Try cutting out a craft like this. Your loved ones will surely like it by placing it in a visible place, for example, on a shelf. To make this craft you will need the following:
Sawing tools.

Preparing your desktop

First of all, you need to prepare your table on which you will work. There should be no unnecessary things on it and every tool should be at hand. Not everyone has their own desktop and has probably already thought about creating one. Making a table is not difficult, but choosing a place for it in the house is difficult. Perfect option- this is an insulated balcony on which you can do crafts at any time. I have already written about preparing the table in a separate article and tried to describe in as much detail as possible the entire process of creating it. If you don't know how to prepare your workplace, then read the following Article. After you have completed the process of creating a table, try to start choosing your future craft.

We choose quality material

The main material is plywood. The choice is always difficult. Each of us has probably encountered such a problem as delamination of plywood from the end part and asked the question, what causes this delamination? Well, of course, this is mainly due to low-quality plywood. If this is not the first time you have picked up a jigsaw, then you can select plywood from the remnants of a previous craft. If you are new to sawing and you don’t have plywood, then buy it at a hardware store. Choosing material for sawing is always difficult. You should always choose plywood carefully, often look at the defects of the wood (knots, cracks) and draw conclusions. The difficulty in choosing plywood lies in the fact that no matter how you guess at its defects and shelf life. For example, you bought plywood, cleaned it, translated the drawing and suddenly it began to delaminate. Of course, this has happened to almost everyone and it’s oh, how unpleasant. So it is better to pay attention when choosing and choose good plywood. I wrote a special Article in which all the principles of choosing plywood are described step by step.

Stripping plywood

We clean our plywood with sandpaper. As you already know, “Medium-grained” and “Fine-grained” sandpaper is used for cleaning plywood when sawing. You've probably seen sandpaper in hardware stores, and that's what we'll need. In your work you will need “Coarse-grained”, “Medium-grained” and “Fine-grained” sandpaper. Each of them has its own property, but a completely different coating, by which it is classified. “Coarse-grained” sandpaper is used for processing rough plywood, i.e. which has many defects, chips, and cracks.
“Medium-grained” sandpaper is used for processing plywood after “Coarse” sandpaper and has a slight coating. “Fine-grained” or otherwise “Nulevka”. This sandpaper serves as the final process for stripping plywood. It gives the plywood smoothness, and therefore the plywood will be pleasant to the touch. Sand the prepared plywood in stages, starting with medium-grain sandpaper and ending with fine sandpaper. Sanding should be done along the layers, not across. A well-polished surface should be flat, completely smooth, glossy in the light and silky to the touch. How best to prepare plywood for sawing and which sandpaper is best to choose Read here. After stripping, check the plywood for burrs and small irregularities. If there are no visible defects, then you can proceed to the process of translating the drawing.

Translation of the drawing

For me, drawing translation has always been the main process in my work. I will tell you a couple of rules, as well as tips for high-quality translation of a drawing. Many people transfer the drawing onto plywood not only using a pencil and copying, but also using “Black Tape”, glue the drawing to the plywood, then wash off the drawing with water and the markings of the drawing remain on the plywood. In general, there are many ways, but I will tell you about the most common method. To transfer the drawing onto prepared plywood, you must use a copy, a ruler, a sharp pencil and a non-writing pen. Fasten the drawing in plywood using buttons or simply hold it with your left hand. Check if the drawing fits the dimensions. Arrange the clock drawing so that you can use a sheet of plywood as economically as possible. Translate the drawing using a non-writing pen and ruler. There is no need to rush, because your future craft depends on the drawing.

Drilling holes in the parts

As you have already noticed, the parts contain parts of the grooves that need to be cut out from the inside. To cut out such parts, you need to drill holes in them with help hand drill or, the old fashioned way, make holes with an awl. By the way, the diameter of the hole must be at least 1 mm, otherwise you can damage the elements of the drawing, which, alas, are sometimes difficult to restore. To avoid damaging your work table when drilling holes, you must place a board under the workpiece so as not to damage the work table. It is always difficult to drill holes alone, so ask a friend to help you in your task.

Sawing parts

There are many rules for cutting, but you need to stick to the most common ones. First of all, you need to cut out the internal parts, only then according to the external pattern. There is no need to rush when cutting. The main thing is to always keep the jigsaw straight at a 90-degree angle when cutting. Cut out the parts along the lines you precisely marked. The movements of the jigsaw should always be smooth up and down. Also, do not forget to monitor your posture. Try to avoid bevels and unevenness. If you go off the line while cutting, don't worry. Such bevels and irregularities can be removed using flat files or “coarse-grained” sandpaper.

Rest

When sawing, we often get tired. Fingers and eyes, which are always tense, often get tired. When working, of course, everyone gets tired. In order to reduce the load, you need to do a couple of exercises. You can view the exercises here. Do the exercises several times during work.

Cleaning Parts

You should always clean the parts of a future craft carefully. At the very beginning of the work, you already sanded the plywood with sandpaper. Now you have to do a small part of stripping the plywood. Using medium-grain sandpaper, sand the edges of the parts and the back of the plywood. “Fine-grained” sandpaper is considered the final stage of cleaning parts. It is better to clean with fine sandpaper front part details. When processing plywood, take your time. You can also use a rounded file, with which it is convenient to clean inner part holes. Try to ensure that the parts come out without burrs or irregularities.

Assembly of parts

Assembling the parts of our craft is not so difficult here. In order to implement correct assembly details You need to read the following Article, which describes in detail all the details of the assembly. After the parts are assembled into one common craft without any problems, then start gluing them.

Gluing the parts

The shelf parts must be glued using PVA or titan glue. You don't need to pour a lot of glue. It is better to tie the assembled craft with glue with a strong thread, tighten it and lay it out to dry. The craft glues together in about 10-15 minutes.

Burning out crafts

To decorate our craft with a pattern (for example, along the edges of the craft), you will need an electric burner. It can be very difficult to burn a pattern beautifully. To burn patterns, you must first draw the pattern with a pencil. You can read how to work with an electric burner and add patterns to a shelf here.

Varnishing crafts

If desired, you can transform our craft by covering it with Wood Varnish, preferably colorless. Read how best to varnish a craft. Try to choose a quality varnish. Varnishing is carried out using a special brush “For glue”. Take your time. Try not to leave visible marks or scratches on the craft.

1. Hand tool
2. Jigsaw
3. Preparing the stencil
4. Sawing process technology
5. Defects in work

Wood carving with a jigsaw is rapidly gaining popularity: many people want to purchase an interesting decorative item to decorate their home, furniture, and even clothes! Carved plywood items various thicknesses They fit organically into any interior style; people often buy photo frames with ornaments, cut-out words and letters, or order intricate shelves and other interesting products. Few people know that artistic cutting out of plywood with a jigsaw is a task accessible to anyone, even the untrained and inexperienced. You just need to understand how to work with the tool.

What is a jigsaw: general description

A jigsaw is a tool designed for cutting out plywood various contours, including curved ones. It is equipped with a blade with fine teeth that can make an even cut of plywood without the formation of significant burrs.

Hand tool

The ancestor of this type of tool is a manual jigsaw. It consists of a metal arc in the shape of the letter “U”, between the ends of which a sawing blade is stretched and attached to clamps. They securely hold the file during operation and allow you to adjust its tension. On one side of the frame there is a handle.

The clamps on the tool can rotate, creating different planes for sawing, thereby providing the opportunity for wood carving of varying complexity.

When cutting from plywood with a hand jigsaw you have to be careful: its design is quite fragile; during intensive work, the blade often breaks from force and heat, so it has to be replaced. To do this, each master must have several dozen spare files.

When working with a jigsaw for carving internal contours It is convenient to use such an auxiliary board, as in the photo: it will help both protect the table and solve the problem of convenient placement of the workpiece.

Jigsaw

The tool runs on electrical network. It is a housing in which the working mechanisms are located, and there is also a handle for control on it. The sawing organ is located in the lower front part. The blade is often protected by a foot, which allows you to cut the contour exactly along the line without deviation. Advanced and professional models jigsaws have various attachments that facilitate the cutting process and straighten the edges of plywood.

Blades can have different teeth in shape and size. It is necessary to select saw blades that are appropriate for the material being processed so that damage and damage to the plywood sheet does not occur during operation of the mechanism.

Classification of jigsaws by power and application:

The instructions on how to use a jigsaw, or the technical data sheet, should describe the main parameters of the tool that must be taken into account when using the mechanism.

Wood carving tools

Sawing with a jigsaw is a creative process, but it requires preparation and additional equipment. What you will need for work:

Preparing the stencil

Drawings for cutting with a jigsaw can be different sizes, depending on the scale of the product being manufactured. To create a diagram of a shelf, a piece of furniture or a composite three-dimensional toy, you can take a large sheet of whatman paper A1 or A0; wallpaper left over after renovation will also work; for small figures, use regular A4 paper or another suitable format.

Using a bright pencil or marker, draw the outline of the future product on the surface, following the dimensions. This could be an element for assembling furniture, a shelf or another large product.

There are such a wide variety of templates for cutting with a jigsaw that it can be difficult to choose the right one. It is much easier to come up with your own cutting patterns and transfer them to paper.

Transferring an image to the surface of plywood or boards

Before you start cutting with a jigsaw, you need to transfer the image from the stencil to a piece of wood or plywood. To do this, cut out a shape from a sheet, apply it to the surface of the plywood and carefully trace it. It is desirable that the line be smooth and accurate. We use a simple pencil so that, if necessary, we can correct the line by erasing it with an eraser.

We apply the contour with back side so that no remaining lines are visible on the finished product. The internal area can be shaded so as not to cut off excess and to mark untouchable areas.

It is important to transfer the design in such a way as to minimize cutting along the grain with a jigsaw - it is so difficult to get an even line.

Sawing process technology

Many people have probably heard how to use a jigsaw. Working with the tool will not cause difficulties if you prepare for it correctly.

Plywood carving begins with the inner contours of the design. To do this, you need to make slots for inserting the tool blade:

• The plywood is often taken thin, and when cutting a large contour there will be no problems, but tension may arise in a small remainder. Sawing with a jigsaw inside can damage the product - chips, burrs, cuts;
• It’s easier to work this way: you always have something to hold the workpiece by. WITH large sheet much easier to handle than trying to hold a small sawn piece while shaping its interior.

How to saw with a jigsaw:

Working with a jigsaw is much easier than using a hand tool; there is no need for physical effort and the process goes faster.

How to saw with a jigsaw:

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this process.

Defects in work

If you did not follow the technology or hold the tool incorrectly, the saw may simply move off the line. Why does a jigsaw cut crookedly:

• tilted the tool while working;
• the tension of the file has weakened;
• With an electric saw, the fastening of the saw may become loose.

To avoid such problems, before starting sawing, be sure to check the tension of the saw and the fastening of all working elements. If the blade is beveled and stuck, it is better to start over and make a line parallel to the defective one.

A little about safety

Safety precautions when working with a jigsaw for cutting plywood and wood are simple:

• Use protective equipment- glasses, gloves, robe. These things will protect you from dust and small chips.
• Sawing with a hand jigsaw should be done carefully so as not to damage your fingers with the file. Maintain a distance between your body and the tool.
• If you are a beginner, carefully read the instructions on how to use a jigsaw and the main characteristics of the tool. This information will help avoid accidental injury and unit breakdown.

Wood carving with a jigsaw requires care and attention. Your health and integrity depend on these qualities. finished product.

What can be made from plywood: interesting ideas and drawings

Sawing wood with a jigsaw or hand tools is a creative process. You can create many decorative items different directions:

Drawings of plywood crafts do not have to be made in exact dimensions. Even taking an example from the Internet and changing its proportions, you will get a unique product that no one else has in this form.

DIY plywood crafts can be painted or left in a natural color; you can glue buttons, beads, ribbons and other decor onto them to liven up the product. To do this, it is worth involving children in the work; their imagination is a bottomless well of interesting ideas.

We offer you diagrams with photos for cutting out of plywood with a jigsaw.

You can think of yourself what can be cut using a hand or electric tool, make your own sketch and transfer it to paper, then to a piece of wood or plywood.

Carving plywood with a jigsaw requires certain knowledge and skills. If you don't have them, consider the following rules:

If your new hobby is sawing out various decorative elements, burning or carving wood, then our advice would be to start with a material such as plywood.

There are several significant reasons for this:

Plywood is quite easy to work with.

If it's in your hands good tool, and you'll start with the figures small size, then making them will only take you a couple of hours.

The material is universal in use, so you can make literally anything you want from it: furniture, toys, small decorative elements.

All this can be a wonderful addition to the interior of your home.

Features of working with the material

What is a plywood sheet? It consists of several sheets of veneer, which are connected to each other using glue.

Important: plywood can be different types: based on beech, birch, pine.

Not only the quality of the finished product, but even its structure and color depends on which sheet you choose.

If you are going to cut out various figures using a jigsaw, then you need to choose the highest quality types of plywood.

They are particularly durable, which guarantees that the plywood will not crack, ruining the entire appearance products at the most unpredictable moment.

If you are going to start working immediately, immediately on the day of purchase, then choose only dry sheets of wood.

They won't break the jigsaw blade every 10 minutes.

To work with plywood, you will need to acquire a number of tools.

In principle, they are always the same for all types of products, so you only need a one-time investment:

• Jigsaw
• Jigsaw files
• Hand or electric drill
• Ruler
• Grinding machine
• Burner.

Framework

If you want to beautifully decorate your home or give it to someone close to you original gift, make your own plywood frame.

The preparation process will not take you much time, because you just need to get the necessary materials.

Note!

They are standard for all cases, and we have already mentioned them before.

We will offer you master classes on light crafts made from plywood. You can make either a regular straight frame or plan various patterns and figures on it.

First you need to make a template, and after that you can cut it out, trace the contours with a pencil on the plywood and begin the manufacturing process.

This stage is not only the most responsible, but also the most exciting. If you put a piece of your soul into your work, everything will definitely work out. Ready design must be opened with varnish. Ready!

Doll furniture

This task will be a real test for parents.

Note!

The so-called test of acquired design skills.

Feature of creation doll furniture is that children do not tolerate falsehood at all.

If they see that the furniture is not worked out in detail, but instead kitchen stove for your favorite doll you brought an ordinary block rectangular shape, then you simply cannot avoid serious grievances and childhood disappointments.

The second feature of making such a craft from plywood using a jigsaw is that all this furniture must be carefully worked out with sandpaper or a grinding machine.

Your child will constantly come into contact with these self-made toys, and if the edges are poorly processed, they may get hurt.

Note!

Well, the last feature of crafts made from plywood and the house is that the materials for such furniture must be absolutely non-toxic and normal for constant contact with the child, because he can drag it into his mouth or take it to bed with him.

This is not a simple applique or paper craft, so you need to take the matter seriously, following a whole list of actions that need to be completed.

Carrying out work from plywood

How simple furniture is made in detail, and then assembled into one piece of furniture, so do-it-yourself plywood crafts should be done separately.

To do this, first of all, prepare special drawings of plywood crafts, on which you will specify the dimensions of all parts and their fastenings.

Take a ready-made plywood sheet and attach a paper part template to it.

Trace the part with a pencil and plan out the outline with a jigsaw.

After this, each part must be cleaned with sandpaper or a grinding machine and only then the piece of furniture must be assembled.

When you are done with the entire set, open it with varnish.

Below are provided different variants and photos of plywood crafts. Choose the one you like.

Photos of plywood crafts

Wooden vases look very beautiful. Usually done on lathe. But 90% of the wood turns into chips.
There is a technology that allows you to make a vase from flat shield.

Here's what happens:

It took me a long time to choose the material to test. On the one hand, you want something interesting, on the other hand, you don’t mind spoiling it.
In the end, I settled on walnut, with oak and wenge inserts.

A walnut board 75mm wide and 15mm thick is cut into 3 parts.
4mm oak veneer must be cut into 15mm dies.

How to do it if not circular saw, but have a couple of clamps and a scoring saw?
Like this - the fist is clamped between the nut dies...

And sawing.

The result is an even die of the required thickness:

I glue the walnut into a shield with spacers - two oak dies, between them a thin wenge veneer. (which was sawn using the same technology)
Scratches from the saw are visible. A slight sloppiness, plus solid oak, which was sawed along the grain.
No big deal, the shield will still have to be sanded to even out gluing errors.

And again I glue it with spacers and leave it overnight:

I use a belt sander to level the shield and remove any remaining glue. Perhaps we should have made the wenge continuous:

The result was a shield 14 mm thick. It took 0.5 mm on each side.
Based on the shield and the desired dimensions of the vase, the angle and pitch are selected:

I print the drawing, use an awl to combine the centers of the shield and the drawing, glue the drawing:

I cut a small rake at an angle of 38 degrees:

I fix the shield with clamps on the jigsaw table and using the rail as a guide, I drill 2mm holes with a drill at an angle of 38 degrees:

I insert a file into the hole:

And let's go!
I cut the first ring:

And here it is - the bottom!

The wood is very hard, it is sawed slowly, if you press it a little, the file will burst. To replace the file, you need to return the table to a horizontal position, unscrew the fastenings of the file, thread the shield, again adjust it to 38 degrees, adjust the tension... Moreover, the file almost always breaks when there is 3 cm left before the end of the ring.

Second ring, the picture begins to emerge.

Bottom view:

And after the fourth ring, the files ran out. I used one and a half packs. No more, I'm putting it off until tomorrow.

I stopped by the store, bought 8 packs of saws (to be sure there would be enough), and sawed:

I'll move the rings:

Sleight of hand and no fraud, the rings are folded into a vase:

Can be combined with shift. You can make inserts between layers. There are plenty of options.

I start gluing without a bottom for now, to make it easier to sand the inner surface:

Checking the alignment of layers:

I leave it overnight under load:

Result. The surface is rough, but the alignment of the lines is without serious disturbances.
The darkening is traces of sawing with an ultra-thin file (41 teeth per inch), which sank into sawdust and the wood burned.

It is necessary to level the inner surface.
Attempt number one - a steel rod with sandpaper glued to double-sided tape.
Not an option, too flexible.

Attempt number two, sanding drum on the same spindle.
It doesn’t fit either, the machine is lightweight (as I intended it to be). Doesn't hold up, plus it's inconvenient to work with.

Attempt number three. Sanding drum on a flexible sleeve.

The drum is small, sawdust flies where it is least needed, but you can work:

For fine grinding, I collect petals of 400 sandpaper:

But it doesn't polish. I continue with my hands.
It takes a lot of time, the surface is far from ideal.
I discover an error - the penultimate ring is glued with an offset of 180 degrees.
Well, this will be a reminder...In the end, it could have been much worse. Let it add charm - it will be a border. The main thing is that the spacers aligned properly.



The biggest nuisance is the sweat that pours into your eyes and falls onto the vase.

The respirator was once snow-white:

I glue the bottom. To speed up the process, I use my weight with dumbbells in my hands as a press... The vase can withstand more than 100 kg without squeaking, despite its lightness and thin walls. Now I’m thinking, what would have happened if the vase had shattered?

How to make it yourself artistic vase plywood

Any DIY crafts perform “four tasks”. The first is a great way to spend your free time, you can take a break from everyday annoying problems. Secondly, as a result of such “rest”, beautiful products appear in the house for various purposes, from small souvenirs to exclusive unique furniture. Third. Artistic sawing - great way Accustoming a child to work is a kind of fail-safe method of education. Your child will always be happy to spend time with his father doing “adult and useful activities.” Fourth - by making products with your own hands, you increase your authority in the eyes of everyone around you. And in your own, of course, which is also quite nice. In this article we offer you drawings of a vase with dragons in chinese style. It can not only diversify any holiday table, but also become its main decoration. What do you need to have for production?

Tool kit for artistic sawing

We consider it necessary to list all the tools and equipment that you will need to complete the job.

• Jigsaw. Previously, only manual jigsaw models were available to individual users. It was quite difficult to work with them; depending on the complexity, one product could take several weeks. Nowadays there are quite a few different models of jigsaws with electric drive. Such special tools not only increase labor productivity tenfold, but also improve the quality of the cut, which is very important for the final appearance of the product.
• Eclectic drill with a thin drill bit. With its help, “starting and technological” holes are sawn through plywood. In some patterns of the same type, using a set of drills of different diameters, you can make line turns or round through holes.
• Tools for sanding plywood. The kit should include sandpapers of various numbers, needle files, files, and stone blocks.
• A set of devices for transferring a design onto plywood. You need to have tracing paper, pencils, knives, rulers and compasses.

That's all, the list takes up a lot of space, but most of the necessary items and tools are already in almost every home.

Transferring a drawing

To make a vase, take sanded plywood 3-4 millimeters thick; in addition, you will need high-quality transparent wood glue and transparent varnish or paints.

The drawings we provide need to be printed on a printer; select the scale you need. Then there are two ways to work with drawings.

• Using tracing paper and a pencil, carefully transfer all the lines from the print onto the plywood. This is a rather difficult and tedious task, it requires great care, and there are often various errors that can be noticed already during cutting. It can be difficult to correct such errors, sometimes it is simply impossible and you have to start all over again. And this is very, very unpleasant, instead of calming nervous system she is additionally “excited.”
• Don’t translate anything at all, but cut it out right away. To do this, you need to print as many drawings as there are elements of the product; this is not difficult to do. After this, we cut out the drawing of each detail in the scale we need and using double sided tape or glue we fix it to the plywood. We cut out the part immediately according to the paper drawing. Simple, reliable, accurate and fast. In a word, what we all like. Our fathers and grandfathers could not use this method for one reason - they were able to get only one sheet of paper, on which there were drawings of all the individual elements in the singular.

You can go another way. From our drawing, take only the principle of connecting individual parts into a single structure and dimensions, and make the ornaments yourself. It's not as difficult as you might think. Take a piece of paper plain paper, fold it several times and cut holes with scissors at the bends. In this way, our ancestors made christmas tree paper snowflakes. Make several variants of patterns, choose the most successful one among them and use tracing paper to transfer it onto plywood. The first cut out element will be a template, with its help it is easy to apply the outline to all other parts.

How to cut blanks for a vase

We will tell you how to cut a vase on a stationary electric jigsaw. The technology of manual sawing is not much different, so we won’t talk about it separately.

• Before starting sawing, you need to drill small holes in each “blind” section of the ornament; the diameter of the hole should ensure the unhindered entry of the nail file.
• The plywood should be guided smoothly along the lines, do not make sudden jerks and it is highly advisable not to stop. We strongly recommend that you check the plywood for the quality of the cut, because a lot depends on its grade and your professional skills.
• The file should always be in a vertical position, do not allow it to bend or twist.
• If you need to make a very sharp turn of the saw, it is better to make the cut in several steps. Turn it little by little several times almost idle and thus cut out sharp turns of the pattern.
• Always start cutting from the middle of the pattern, this will eliminate the risk of the plywood cracking in very thin places along the edges. Cracking of plywood is always an unpleasant phenomenon, and in some cases it is necessary to redo the part. This applies to situations where in these places it is necessary to connect several parts into one structure.
• Work at good lighting, while working, nothing should prevent you from moving the plywood freely and moving yourself.

Assembling the vase

Before assembly, all cut areas must be carefully sanded. Where possible, use sandpaper; where not, use flat or round files. The surfaces must be coated with two layers of varnish; varnish in the usual way in compliance with technology. Almost all connections are made according to the tenon-groove principle, select the sizes of the tenons and grooves taking into account the thickness of the plywood, the tenon should fit into the groove with little effort, the height of the tenon should be exactly equal to the thickness of the plywood. The same rule applies to parts that are connected into a lock. Be sure to use clear wood glue.

540 rub.