Wedding Items
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:31 pm
My 37 year old daughter is getting married in January. (Let me tell you I'm over the moon, I wondered if they’d ever get married.)
Anyway I made a couple of items for the event. I scrolled a cake topper, a surprise her mother and I thought would be fun.
The other item is an alternative wedding guest book. She sent me a picture of one from theknot.com. Basically it’s a picture frame with a backer and a glass front – creating a cavity between the two. Guests sign a wooden heart and drop them in. After the ceremony I’ll complete the frame so it can be hung.
I scrolled between 66 hearts from 1/8 baltic birch plywood. The frame is cherry, 17 x 14.5
I wanted a frame that could be “mechanically” fastened so that if at some point they wanted to open the unit and move the hearts around it could be done. I looked at joint choices in PTWFE and choose a mitered half-lap joint. I’ve never made one before – an opportunity to try something new.
The corners are drilled and held together with dowels. When tapped in, the whole unit is surprisingly solid, although I did glue the bottom two joints.
The final step was a display easel for the frame.
Thanks for reading.
Anyway I made a couple of items for the event. I scrolled a cake topper, a surprise her mother and I thought would be fun.
The other item is an alternative wedding guest book. She sent me a picture of one from theknot.com. Basically it’s a picture frame with a backer and a glass front – creating a cavity between the two. Guests sign a wooden heart and drop them in. After the ceremony I’ll complete the frame so it can be hung.
I scrolled between 66 hearts from 1/8 baltic birch plywood. The frame is cherry, 17 x 14.5
I wanted a frame that could be “mechanically” fastened so that if at some point they wanted to open the unit and move the hearts around it could be done. I looked at joint choices in PTWFE and choose a mitered half-lap joint. I’ve never made one before – an opportunity to try something new.
The corners are drilled and held together with dowels. When tapped in, the whole unit is surprisingly solid, although I did glue the bottom two joints.
The final step was a display easel for the frame.
Thanks for reading.