FREE CNC FILES FOR THE DESIGN (SHARED WITH THE PUBLIC IN INVENTABLES PROJECTS)
FREE PLANS FOR CONVENTIONAL WOOD WORKING TOOLS in both; Imperial & Metric measurements also!
This is the third Downeast Thunder Creations Christmas Project for the 2018 Christmas season. It’s a small sleigh for holding live table top Christmas trees, along with other items. I made a couple of them out of interior grade plywood. However, I would recommend using dimensional lumber or an exterior plywood if you intend to use this sleigh as an outdoor decoration.
I made a couple of different versions with different carvings/engravings on the side panels, plus I experimented with doing away with the mortise and tenon joints for attaching the runners. Both ways worked, but in the end, I prefer using the mortise and tenon joints (easy to do if you are building with a X-Carve CNC machine.
This sleigh can easily be made with conventional wood working tools if you don’t have a cnc machine. So, I’ve provided plans in pdf format that you can download and print out.
Here’s the download button for the FREE PLANS:
I put the design for CNC carving together in “Easel,” the software provided free by Inventables and commonly used with Inventables X-Carve CNC machines. Go to the Inventables web site and look under “Projects” if you would like to have free use of this CNC file. Once you have opened the file, make a copy and save it to your own account (free, even if you don’t own an X-Carve). You can then modify the design as you see fit for your use, including the size.
Here’s the link to the Inventables, “Easel” page for this ornament design:
https://www.inventables.com/projects/christmas-tree-sleigh
I’ll post more craft show items/projects as I put them together in the near future. I posted a couple of links below to Christmas Pallet Wood Projects I did last year:
DIY Pallet Wood Table Top Christmas Tree – https://youtu.be/Us0sWBCqPP8
DIY Pallet Wood Christmas Star – https://youtu.be/SD7WchfiqUo
Link to this year’s (2018) DTC, DIY Christmas Project #1: https://youtu.be/pTSF4QMvP-w
Link to this year’s (2018) DTC, DIY Christmas Project #2 https://youtu.be/laH6appHSLc
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Here’s the video:
