How to make lots of wood snowflakes using a tablesaw.
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That’s amazing. I love the batch techniques. Great video Steve!
Hi Steve, great project. Perhaps you could make something similar to be used as coasters. I think this would be a really cool gift idea for Christmas!
I was think about the same.
There’s a neat trick where you lay these on their side and… Voila! Coaster!
If you’d thought to arrange them in a pattern on the bench before spraying them with lacquer, you could have hung the paper up as a snow flake “negative” decoration 🙂 Nice project!
Good idea!, I like it!
You’re the first channel I ever subscribed to back in 2010, and one of the reasons why I started my own YouTube channel. Keep up the great work and thanks so much for the inspiration!
I’ll support that!
Yea, him and Mathias Wandell, then Diresta.
@The Small Workshop I’ll support that too!
@The Small Workshop Diresta has some interesting things but far too many tools that I’ll never have and projects I’ll never attempt.
Beautiful work, Steve! 😃
Thanks a lot for the tips!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I’m really glad you redid this video, this was really nice to see again and get another look at!
Also, I tried these for the first time (thanks to your video) last year and found that instead of cutting the designs with my table saw, I like using my router. I can do about the same setup, but a lot more cool shapes and being able to use rounded edges makes them look a little nicer. You can’t get as many good angles, but I think next time I’ll combine the two methods to make them super interesting.
Have you tried cutting one stick into 6 so that you have the same pattern automatically without the need to try to repeat the same cut 6 times? It’s something I was thinking about, but haven’t tried yet…maybe this year…
I also thought about using the router. That seems like a great idea.
I am glad I clicked the “Read More” link- that second idea is even better! Doing the same cut consistently 6 times seems much less likely for an amateur (like myself) than doing it once and splitting it into 6. Thank you!
@Cary Robert Dean Glad you like the idea and let me know how it goes for you, I’d be really interested to hear
Great call… I just did a practice run with the 6 separate blocks, and the cuts definitely didn’t match up as perfectly as I wanted… will try your method
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COOL !!!
Thanks Steve. Always nice to see a fun festive project, especially in these times.
Great video. I’ve never seen this before but looks like fun. I’m trying to do more craft style projects this holiday season and this will for sure be on the list.
Thank You for providing inspiration.
Really nice project. It’s fun seeing something done outside of the box. Thanks, Steve.
Those are beautiful! Great job as always Steve!
Congratulations on your grand woodwork skills and your presentation is just wonderful. Thanks again Steve.
Steve, I’m so happy you made another video of you making these, these are great! I really want to try them this year, such a great gift to give to family members.
One question, will the backend of the push block get chopped up as you’re pushing your pieces through the saw blade? Seems it would but it’s not mentioned.
And loving the podcast with Chad. The past episode with your first interview was so fascinating, great content and you and chad are really clicking. Keep up the great work!
Steve, this is a great video and project. I will be doing this with my daughter. You have a great way in communicating and simplifying things that could be much more complicated. You have motivated me around woodworking and exercising. Thanks!
Hey Steve. I great video! I’ve seen all your wooden snowflake videos. I decided to tackle this neat little project and I had a question. Have you had any issues with glue strength? Every snowflake has three end grain glue ups and I’m worried they will be super fragile.
Nice work bro! I love your woodworking tools.
Love that.
My wife and I love this idea and are in the process of making them right now. I really appreciate the great idea and clear instructions.
Great project! I’m going to try to make some this weekend. Here’s a little trick to simplify the initial cutting. At about 1:25, when you are setting the distance of your fence to get the pieces the right width, you can flip your board so that it rests against the blade with the cut side down, then you can just push the stop block and fence up to the tip of your board. That will automatically set your cut the same as the thickness of your board.
Merry Christmas!
That’s what I did. Great minds…
Good call
Hi Steve. I just made my first batch of snowflakes, using this and your previous videos as a guide. They turned out amazing! I used a bandsaw for cutting them apart, and was happy to see how many flakes you can get out of a single glue-up. I just used a plain spruce wood board for the raw material, but this piece had some pretty nice dark/light grain contrast, so when you glue up the six segments that grain really contributes to the design.
I used plain 3/4″ thick stock for the first batch, but for my next ones, I think I will use some 2×4 or 2×6 lumber, to get a larger snowflake.
At first I was like , how are those random cuts gonna work. Then seeing you putting it together as example and flipping them over making various patterns with the cuts you got , blown away ! 😉 Really cool ! Thanks for all the information of having me and others be able to do this ourselves too !