Well after some playing around with ideas and not wanting to buy materials I came with this solution. A wooden washer. What you do with it in entirely up to you
I’m going to try my best to make a tutorial on how I made mine and how you can too with some tools, a little patience and DIY ability.
I told @allotment I would try to make a tutorial so here we go
Boys and girls get a cup of your favourite drink, put your favourite music on and let’s go.
Materials I used:
- plywood ideally the sandwich one (the fibre is in opposite directions making it a bit more robust) in this case it was a 10mm (what I had at hand) or else the brown ply or MDF
- wood sandpaper 80 120 grit or abouts
- wood glue or supaglue ( any strong glue should be used)
- hollowing drill bit
- stepped drill bit or a Forstner drill bit
- ice-cream sticks
- drill (cordless, drill, or drill press)
- some stickers to decorate with your own art?
Steps:
1- I start by choosing a desired hollowing drill bit and cut a section of wood. You end up with a cilindre of wood.
2- I then use a stepped drill to achieve the desired inner diameter. You can use a Forstner bit here, if the ply or material used is only thick enough for one washer, you can drill to desired depth without going all the way through, this will leave a “backing”
3- while it is still attached to the stepped drill bit I use this to my advantage and use the sandpaper to get rid of some rough bits.
4- since it is a thick section of wood I use the drill/saw combo and cut of a smaller part, rendering me a washer.
5- sand it to make it nice and smooth
6- I then get some ice-cream sticks and glue to the “back”. This is optional but it will increase its resistance. I think if you use the brown type of ply it might be possible to just use stickers or sticky labels.
You can always use this as part of a necklace? Or some art? A base for a mini dream catcher? A keyring?
Paint it, wax it , draw ! It’s yours to explore
Enjoy and have fun experimenting. It’s more rewarding than just going to the store and buying one.
PS: feel free to post your work, should anyone venture.
Hope this helps anyone