All language subtitles for 5 Easy Woodworking Projects You Can Make For Holiday Gifts

the holidays are right around the corner

so it's time for some handmade holiday

gift ideas this year i wanted to

challenge myself to create projects that

are only made using wood meaning no

hardware so you guys don't have to wait

on shipping times to create any of these

things

so

all you're going to need is wood and

glue and i guess the tools to make them

but i also didn't want to go out and buy

more wood so i'm just going to try to

use whatever i have on hand first up we

have this knife block i was looking for

any piece that was at least eight inches

wide and found this ambrosia maple that

has a live edge on it which i thought

would be a cool feature and cut up two

pieces to rough length which is about 10

inches i don't want to get rid of that

live edge so i used my jointer jig at

the table saw to cut it to width with

the live edge facing towards the fence

then used a stop block at the crosscut

slide to cut both pieces to length this

whole design is

so simple and i made it even simpler for

you if you want to make it with a

downloadable drilling template you can

get on my website using the link down

below all you need to do is apply it

with spray adhesive to the ends of the

work pieces and drill out the holes i

drilled out all the holes on both pieces

at the same time by sticking them

together with double-sided tape this

will make sure the holes match up

perfectly on the drilling template

there's a center line you can use as a

guide for where to cut the holes in half

creating a semicircle that a dowel will

fall into this is easily done at the

crosscut sled with both pieces still

attached to each other then you can

separate them to attach the dowels

speaking of dowels you can buy half inch

towels for this but remember i'm using

what i got for these projects and don't

have any so i'll have to make some from

this scrap walnut i've shown this

process a ton in my other videos but

basically you mill up square stock to

your desired dowel dimension then use a

round over bit that has the same radius

as the dowel you want on all four sides

creating perfectly round dowels cool

using a stop block again the dowels get

cut up into four inch long pieces i will

definitely have all the dimensions and

all the info you need on my website if

you want to make this or any of the

other projects in this video

if i was using square stock i could just

glue it up now but i have the live edge

to deal with only one piece had this

really cool live edge on it so i had to

fake it on the other piece this was

really fun and easy to do with the new

wood river spokeshave if you've never

used a spokeshave i highly recommend

picking one up i love using them and

i'll link to this one from woodcraft

down below anyway after a bunch of

sanding it's time for a glue up the most

important two dowels here are the front

and back so i made sure to take my time

and place these two perfectly before

moving on to the other dowels i chose to

use brads to hold the dowels in place

but you could probably get away with

just clamping or maybe reinforcing with

an eighth inch brass pin or something

like that that would be pretty cool

whatever this worked fine since i was

able to fill the holes with wood putty

after you can also choose not to cut the

holes in half and just insert the dowels

in regular holes that would look cool

also always lots of options you just

want to make sure to clean up all the

glue squeeze out from the inside because

you won't be able to reach in there

after the glue dries the outside gets

cleaned up afterwards and it's ready for

finish i think this thing looks

so cool

when i designed this i wasn't thinking

about using a live edge at all but as

soon as i saw this piece i knew it was

perfect for this application and i think

it makes it look so interesting i love

this thing and there's so many different

ways that you can make it i think it

would be really cool to personalize it

and put a logo or initials or something

on the side here

just super fun and easy to make so

moving on to the next project not really

sure what to call it but this is a

serving board that has a built-in

cracker tray

i knew i wanted the tray to be at least

nine inches wide so i found the piece of

meatball that i could resaw to get that

width and glued it up that's going to be

the main part of the tray

moving on to the cracker

well holder not really sure what to call

it part of the tray i knew i wanted this

part to be about six inches long and

about an inch and three quarters tall so

i ripped up some walnut to create that

height at the table saw and then cut it

to roughly that length at the miter saw

and looking at my stop block moving here

i mean really roughly to create the

cracker well on all the pieces i'll use

a template that's made with a ginormous

two and a half inch forstner bit i know

not everyone has one of those you can

rough cut a semicircle with a jigsaw and

fine tune it with sanding just as well

the template goes on the pieces with

double sided tape then the semicircle

gets rough cut on the bandsaw and then

cleaned up with a flush trim bit and if

you don't like routers or don't have one

sanding works too it just takes longer a

flush trim bit works best when you're

removing as little material as possible

so when rough cutting i leave maybe

about a sixteenth of material left over

and those little semicircles could be

sanded and used for something else i'm

not including them as one of the

projects of this video but cut a slot in

them and they become a place card holder

or picture holders just don't toss them

they can totally be used

back to this project time for glue up

the hardest thing here is making sure

these will all line up and i totally

could have done a better job at that

maybe i should have added salt to the

glue or brads where i knew i was going

to be cutting away later

definitely lessons learned here after

the glue dried the main part of the tray

is easy to clean up at the planer and

then it's cut to final length at the

crosscut sled the cracker well was a bit

more difficult since it's shorter than

my planer allows for so i had to trick

my planer into thinking it was longer

than it actually was by temporarily

attaching two guide rails along the

edges with the good old tape and ca glue

method

now that it's flat on both sides it can

be cut to length at the cross cut sled

and then i had to clean up the curved

cut

the spindle sander didn't reach halfway

so it gave me a starting point on either

end but the middle still needed a ton of

work there was lots of hand sanding and

this gooseneck card scraper really came

in handy to attach the two parts of the

serving tray together i'm going to use a

tongue and groove which is super easy to

do with a bit set at the router table

the main part of the tray gets the

tongue that's placed in the center on

one end of the board and then i can set

the matching bit for the groove to the

correct height using the actual tongue

that was just cut and cut the groove on

one end of the cracker well super

satisfying fit now i think it's too

bulky like this so i'll draw an angle

that starts from the height of the main

part of the tray and i don't know what

that angle is at all so i'll just set an

angle gauge along that line and use that

to set the angle on the table saw blade

i cut that angle on both ends and now it

looks so much cooler and it's ready for

glue up

once dry i trimmed off the edges just to

flush everything up and it's time for

finish this joint came out

so

good that transition is seamless

i know this project is a little odd but

we serve stuff like this often and we

usually just have crackers on a separate

plate i feel like i'm going to use this

one a lot yeah this one's not a gift i'm

keeping this one i have so many things

to say about this board

first of all it would be really cool if

there were magnets in here that were

holding these together but remember i'm

trying to only use wood to make these

projects but that's definitely a really

cool idea also i decided to glue these

two pieces together but i also think it

would be really cool if you made a

sliding dovetail so you can separate the

two pieces

just another option there

and also i said that i am not going to

use hardware but i think this thing

really needs feet you can make some feet

with wood but i think i'll probably end

up using those rubber cutting board feet

which i have

lying around here somewhere so before

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this

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projects next up is this geometric

puzzle serving tray so this one is a bit

more involved but worth it i think

this tray is 13 inches round and it's

going to be made of three different

species of wood that are stacked and

layered together instead of carved out

of one thicker piece of material the

bottom of the main tray is going to be

made of walnut that i resawed to get the

width i needed for a 13 inch circle and

glued it up into a panel the next layer

will be made from these cut cutoffs of a

maple butcher block that a neighbor gave

to me thank you neighbor this butcher

block is going to be material for the

top of the main circle tray and it's

also going to be the bottom of the

smaller geometric trace

first i'll work on the top ring of the

main circle tray since this wood is from

butcher block it has these finger joints

between the pieces so i just cut them at

all those seams at the miter saw then

using the block layer website i figured

out the dimensions i need the pieces to

be for a 13 inch circle that will be

half inch thick the block layer website

tells you what angle to cut the pieces

but my miter gauge also has a guide on

it which i think is pretty cool i cut

the angle on one end and then using a

stop block flip the piece over and cut

the other end it was just a matter of

doing test cuts on scrap to get the stop

block at the correct location and now i

have eight pieces ready for glue up to

glue this up i'm going super simple here

i am only going to use tape to hold the

pieces together i just made sure to pull

the tape really hard before placing it

down so that it pulls the pieces in

tight to each other once it's laid out

seemed to work out okay but a hose clamp

or a ratchet strap or something probably

would have been better all right now

time to make this octagon round i'll use

a circle jig so i brought in a scrap of

the same height to use as my center

pivot point then made sure that the

center point was equally spaced around

the octagon and tacked it in place with

brads where i know it will be cut away

later right now i'm just focusing on

making the inside of this part round i

don't care about the outside just yet

this is going to be glued to the base so

i use sandpaper on a flat surface to

even up all the pieces

now on to the base that it will be glued

to i cleaned it up at the planer then

used my 6 in 1 trim router jig as a

circle jig again to make the 13 inch

circle and prepped it for the glue up i

marked a circle half inch from the

inside of the maple top piece to use as

a guide for placing it on the bottom

walnut piece i added some glue and

clamped it up the glue squeeze out on

the inside would be impossible to remove

later so it's best to remove it now and

i like to use a wet toothbrush to do

this

while that sets up i can work on the

geometric inserts for the tray once

again i made a really simple for you

guys with a downloadable template you

can get on my website there are a few

ways you can go about doing this the

simplest would be to just tap the

template on the pieces you want to use

rough cut them out and shape them until

you get to the lines on the paper

template easy

but i prefer to make hard templates from

quarter inch mdf from the paper

templates so that it's more exact and i

will have them lying around if i ever

want to make them again i also find it's

easier to refine a shape on quarter inch

mdf than hardwood but that's just me and

the way that i like to work i took this

scrap butcher block from earlier and

resawed it at the bandsaw to get enough

material for the base part of these

little trays all i need from these

templates is the outside dimensions so i

traced them out with a pencil rough cut

them at the bandsaw then brought them to

their final shape using the hard

template double side tape to them and a

flush trim bit at the router table

easier than sanding all those hard maple

pieces in my opinion at least

now moving on to the parts that will

make the top lip of the little trays

this piece of canary wood might not look

like scrap but it is well actually it's

being repurposed and it also has finish

on it so i'll have to sand all the

finish away before moving on

using the templates again i traced out

the parts this time it's important to

mark both the outside and the inside

from the template and i could rough cut

all those inner pieces out this was not

fun at all to do with a jigsaw i feel

like a scroll saw would be the perfect

tool for this probably for this whole

project actually since i wasn't able to

get close enough to my line with the

jigsaw for it to be safe to use with a

flush trim bit i had to use a guide

bushing this way i could control the

depth of the bit and take off really

small amounts until i'm left with a

small material that's left over from the

thickness of the guide bushing and i

could easily clean that up with a flush

trim bit as the final step now i forgot

to press record on my camera but i rough

cut the shapes at the bandsaw and

they're ready to be glued onto the maple

bases i made earlier

since the canary wood lips are cut a bit

oversized i just made sure an even

amount was hanging off the maple as i

clamped it up and i used

all my clamps for this

while that's setting up i can finish the

main round tray i cut the outer ring at

the bandsaw then use a flush trim bit to

make it all nice and flush

and once the glue dried on the trays i

did the same to those

since the top lips on both the main tray

and the little trays are about half inch

thick i thought it would be cool to use

a quarter inch round over bit so the

whole tops are curved and rounded over

and it's pretty cool looking i think

then i just had to do a whole bunch of

sanding those inner curves were no fun

but finishing is fun and made the whole

process worth it since these will come

into contact with food i use walnut oil

and i love

the way the sapwood book match looks on

that main tray okay how fun is this you

can serve it just like this or remove

some of the trays and add chips or all

the trays and add even more chips it's

definitely a conversation piece that's

really fun and functional i love it how

fun is this so i thought that i was

making it easier by doing the whole

lamination process but i think that

actually made it a little bit more

difficult if i were to make this again

and i can because i already have the

templates i would start off with thicker

material to begin with and i would hog

out the middle with a

bowl carving bit or a dish a dish

carving bit or something like that so

what i would do start off with thicker

pieces and then hog out the inside at

the drill press and then use the bowl

carving bit on the inside of the

template like that and then rough cut

the outside and then flush trim the

outside and i think that that would be a

lot easier but if you are a scroller and

you have a scroll saw doing the

lamination is definitely the way to go

you would just need to print out

two of the printable templates one for

the top and one for the bottom oh also

make sure to mark which way is up so on

these templates i wrote top because i

was getting just a little bit confused

there all right moving on we have this

baguette tray for this i need a piece

that's at least 16 inches long and thick

enough for me to carve into i found this

piece of red oak cut to rough length and

marked a rough curve on the end with a

center line that i can use as a guide

for drilling holes at the drill press i

set the depth stop so the bottom of the

bit hits the bottom of the curve that i

drew out these holes will act as a guide

as i'm carving telling me to keep going

or to stop carving with an angle grinder

is a crazy messy process so i take this

task outside and just go to town until i

see all the holes i drilled have

disappeared i removed most of the

material with this rough disc and then

swapped out to a finer disc and i was

able to get pretty close to my rough

mark on the end there

then it was all just about time and hand

work a gooseneck scraper helped with

removing the rough angle grinder cuts

and then a ton of sanding was involved

as well time to make the slots i want

the cleanest cut possible here so i used

a flat top grind blade and i want each

slot to be half inch apart so i just

drew a line directly on the sled i set

the blade so it was slightly higher than

the curve that i carved out placed it so

the curve was facing down and cut all

the slots by placing the previous cut on

the pencil line that i drew out i

considered making a key or something

that the cut can fall into so these

would be exact but it's not joinery it

doesn't need to be so perfect lining it

up on the line was more than good enough

oh and i'll link to this flat top grind

blade from woodcraft down below it's

such an awesome blade for stuff like

this and once again it felt too bulky to

me so i set the blade to 45 degrees and

cut off the bottom corners to lighten it

up super cool it was a little annoying

to sand the edges of all those cuts but

totally doable and it's time for finish

this time since red oak is not

particularly nice when you just oil it i

thought it would be cool to stain it

black this is butcher black oil that has

stain in it and it fully cures in 72

hours and it's food safe after that it

was also a little annoying to get into

all those cuts with the stain but i

think it was worth it this looks so cool

stained black cooler than oiled red oak

in my opinion

now i don't know if many people need a

baguette cutting tray but it's

definitely a fun little thing to have

and it only took me about two hours to

make it and if you're not using it for

cutting baguettes you can use it to hold

fruit so it's multifunctional and i love

it this is totally not how i pictured

this when i first started but i think

it's really cool and it kind of just

evolved as the project was going on so

there's other options for making this i

think it would be really cool to make

this out of a log or out of

firewood or if you're someone who likes

to cut your baguettes on a bias you can

make these slots angled like that and i

think that that is really cool also

the black looks really cool to me all

right moving on last but not least we

have these bandsaw scoops for these i'm

going to need smaller pieces of scrap i

found this dowel which i thought would

be cool since it's already round but

square stock works too i originally saw

this idea from a guy on youtube named

patrick's woodshop and he made the video

like seven years ago and i've been

wanting to make them ever since i'll

definitely add a link to his video but

all you have to do is cut out a curved

scoop shape from your scrap that inside

cut will become the handle and the

outside cut is the scoop

so the inside is the outside and the

outside is the inside the inside just

gets moved over to the side and glued

into place a couple of mistakes that i

made here i should have cut the outer

curve on the scoop before gluing it up

and i should have added another clamp

adding downward pressure from the handle

onto the scoop see the outside curve

would have been easier to cut before i

glued it up still do a ball but i had to

raise the guide bearings too high anyway

crisis averted and now you just have to

cut away the shape of the handle first

cut the two sides then cut away at the

bottom now the rest is just fine tuning

it with some sanding the belt sander was

great for getting into those curves and

i wanted the handle to have more of a

hand carved feel so i chose to trim it

with a carving knife because it's fun to

do and i like to see the tool marks i

also thought the center portion was a

little blocky and it just needed

something so i used a gouge to make a

little indent for your thumb when you're

holding the scoop and it's time for

finish so this is a fun little project

and i think it's an excellent use of

scraps you could use it for scooping

coffee flour sugar dog food whatever you

need scooping and i just love the look

of like the handmade handle like seeing

the knife marks on there i think that's

cool so you might be wondering what

happened to the walnut one not really

sure but uh the glue just didn't set up

properly on it and there's a crack

running through there i also tried to

make another one out of maple and

mistakes were made um i just cut a

little bit too deep at the bandsaw so

this looks like it's a simple project

but it's a fun challenge for sure so

that's

five wooden handmade gifts that you can

make this holiday season

wait actually

six handmade wooden projects that you

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thanks so much for watching happy

holidays and i'll see you on the next

one there's too much cheeseburger and

crackers yeah i know i was in a hurry to

cut it that's why i got it really big

what do you guys think

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