The design of your own home can be very profitable to decorate, for example, using original crafts. It can be a wall clock with an interesting dial, a practical housekeeper or an openwork table lamp.
All these crafts can be made from material such as plywood. Such a material is ideal for making beautiful objects, it can be painted well, and has sufficient strength.
Plywood handling rules
Plywood sheets are very popular among craftsmen due to their obvious advantages:
- Low weight.
- Sufficient strength of finished products.
- Safety for humans.
- Possibility of pre-impregnation with moisture resistant oil.
Plywood, in contrast to solid wood, has a lower cost, which determines many areas of application of the material. However, in all cases, you should remember about the main nuances of working with plywood:
- You must first select a consumable. Today, five varieties of plywood are known, each of which differs in thickness, veneer appearance, and the number of possible defects. You can find out the corresponding category by the letter designation. The quality composition is also different. For making crafts, it is better to give preference to birch plywood, which crumbles least when cutting.
- Sawing out plywood crafts is usually done with a jigsaw. At the same time, for large products, a stationary installation will be needed, light plywood crafts are cut with a hand jigsaw.
- It is better to fix the sheet of material securely so as not to accidentally cut off the edge, not to crush the saw cut.
- All manipulations should be carried out measuredly, without haste. Quite often, in the photo of crafts cut from plywood with a jigsaw, you can see rough cuts, roughness, defects.
- To get a clearer picture and details when cutting, it is better to use the templates, the outlines of which are depicted on the back of the worksheet. Drawings of plywood crafts for jigsaw work can be found in the public domain.
- To impart moisture resistance to finished products, you can use not only oil, but also a mixture of drying oil, turpentine and melted wax. A cooled mixture is applied to the surface of the plywood.
- Before drawing the pattern, the plywood surface is carefully sanded with a coarse float and then polished.
The quality of grinding and polishing directly affects the color quality of the craft. The paint perfectly evenly lays down only on a perfectly processed surface.
Plywood painting
Perforated plywood paintings give the interior of the house a unique charm and style. To perform such work, you will need a jigsaw, including a hand tool (cutting out the smallest details in the image).
Instructions for the work carried out:
- First of all, you should select a sketch. Black and white portraits or shadow images are very popular today.
- A pencil sketch is applied to the back of the plywood.
- The sheet of material is firmly fixed, for example, with clamps.
- The edges under the clamps should be wrapped with a soft cloth or sponge so that the plywood surface does not crumble under strong pressure.
- The details are cut out according to the applied template, forming the desired image.
- Using a hard sponge, both the surface of the plywood and the edges of the cuts are sanded.
- The next step is to impregnate the material with a moisture resistant compound (homemade mixture or production oil).
- After the impregnation has dried, you can start decorating.
- A layer of stain and clear acrylic varnish will not only protect the material from premature damage, but also create a beautiful glossy finish.
Lamp shade for table lamp
Sophisticated but beautiful plywood crafts are also cut with a jigsaw. An interior style such as country or modern will favorably emphasize a stylish carved lampshade.
To make it, you will need to first assemble the cartridge and lamp, connect the switch button.
Plywood, on the other hand, must be impregnated not only with moisture-resistant oil, but also with antipyrine, for safe operation.
Instructions on how to create a beautiful home decoration:
- The easiest way to make a lampshade is from a few composite modules. The master will have to carry out separate work on the manufacture of each module.
- Focusing on a previously prepared drawing, a future drawing is applied to the surface of each workpiece.
- The item is fixed on clips or clamps.
- With a hand jigsaw, cut out the lines of a given ornament for crafts from plywood, trying not to damage the edges of the cuts. If a large number of small cracks or mesh appears on the surface of the sheet, it is better to replace the part with new plywood.
- After cutting out the figures, you should clean the prepared module from shavings, and then be sure to grind and polish.
The surface of the future lampshade is impregnated with oil and antipyrine, and only then it is opened with stain and acrylic varnish. To attach the modules to each other, you can pre-leave joints and grooves on adjacent elements, or you can use pins or metal brackets.
Original plywood flower bed
Plywood is widely used for more than just home crafts. This material is very successfully used for the manufacture of garden figures, decorations, flower beds.
- Depending on the wishes of the owner, these can be hanging pots, beautiful carts for flower pots, vertical flower beds.
- For work, a more durable material is chosen, the thickness of the layer of which is more than 3 cm. It is also important to pay attention to the condition of the plywood, for example, the absence of cracks, chips, defects, signs of separation of the layer.
In independent work, detailed attention is paid to the impregnation of the finished product with a mixture of drying oil, melted wax and turpentine, which will protect the product from moisture and seasonal rains.
Photo of plywood crafts
