Project:Tree Trunk Tealights

documentation unfinished, ignore this page for now ;-)

I made a bunch of tealight holders out of birch trunks as a wedding decoration and will now work on turning this project into a woodworking seminar for beginners.

Materials

Birch Logs

• Bauhaus
• very wet!
  • cut & dry in advance??
  • risk of mold forming at the cut faces...

Tealights

• steel holders from <smile link>
• "eco" tealights without aluminum cases <smile link>

Making

Need to test whether this can be sped up - drilling into the wet wood was very difficult!

• cut with chop saw - log often too thick for the small Herkules saw...switch to bandsaw next time?
• sand cut faces with eccentric sander
• let dry - continue & seal ends immediately next time?
• drill with <specific> Forstner bit
• let dry/seal again so the bottom of the hole is protected
• insert steel holder before the log shrinks too much!