DIY Wooden Drink Coasters | Family Cuisine

We’ll begin with the wood coasters and the bottom. You’ll want 4″ of fabric for every coaster, so since I needed 4 coasters I wanted 16″ of fabric. I grabbed a 16″ piece of walnut and located a bit of longer piece of maple to make use of as an accent. The smaller piece on prime will probably be for the bottom and simply must be larger than 4″x4″.The accent strip of maple will probably be 1/4″ extensive. Minimize the maple to measurement on the bandsaw like I did or use a desk noticed.Run all of the items by the planer to get the walnut coaster blanks right down to 1/2″ thick, the maple right down to 1/4″ thick and at the very least 1/2″ extensive and the bottom to three/4″ thick.Rip a 1/2″ strip off the sting of the walnut coaster clean and rip the maple strip right down to 1/2″ for a 1/2″ x 1/4″ piece of maple. I exploit a 50 tooth mixture blade on my tablesaw and it really works nice for each ripping and crosscutting duties.Now put the maple between the walnut and glue and clamp the items collectively. I used a combo of f-clamps and aluminum bar clamps, however even fast clamps would work. You don’t want a lot strain right here, simply sufficient to get some good glue squeeze out.Let the glue dry in a single day then take away from the clamps and run the clean by the planer. Just a few gentle passes will get all the pieces even and also you’ve bought your clean on your DIY wooden coasters!The ultimate dimensions for the coasters and base are 3-3/4″ sq.. Rip the clean to 3-3/4″ extensive, taking the fabric off the bigger walnut facet. Then use a crosscut sled or miter noticed to chop the 4 coasters and base to ultimate measurement.Subsequent you’ll must drill the holes within the base. Measure in 3/8″ from all sides of the 4 corners and drill 3/8″ holes 3/8″ deep in every nook. That’s plenty of 3/8, so if you happen to get confused simply go for 3/8″ 🙂Minimize 4 items of three/8″ maple dowel rod to three″. These items will go within the holes you simply drilled.Sand all of the items to 220grit and soften the sides with the ultimate grit. Use 2-3 coats of polyurethane to seal the DIY wood drink coasters and preserve them protected in opposition to liquids (occasion fouls).I used small items of dowels sanded down to simply below 3/8″ diameter to plug the holes of the bottom whereas making use of the poly. This retains the end from going into the holes and interfering with the match of the dowels later.Set up the dowels into the holes of the bottom and safe them with a drop of CA glue. Now go get pleasure from a chilly one along with your DIY Wood Coasters defending your desk from water stains! In case you’d prefer to make the bottle opener from the function photograph you’ll be able to go to my How you can Make a Pizza Cutter and Bottle Opener submit.