7 Easy Steps to Make Wooden Christmas Trees

First I pulled out any remaining nails from this 1×10 piece. I wanted to use only one piece of the reclaimed wood so I'd have plenty left to do other projects. This piece was 8 ft long, and was just what I needed for these wooden Christmas trees.

I sanded using my belt sander with a 50 grit belt. Wear a mask & gloves-it's messy. I finished up with my pad sander and 120 grit sandpaper. This smoothed it out more and took care of rogue splinters.

Since I wanted my tree bases to be about 12″ wide and my trees to be about 3 ft tall, I cut a few pieces at 12″ wide and began to lay out the tree design.  

With my base pieces cut, I began to rip the wood into thinner planks to give the trees some varying plank widths and make them more interesting to look at.

I laid out all the pieces, and alternated the pieces in width to make the rough forms of the trees. I used some of the un-sanded sides to give a variation in color. Just flipped, positioned and adjusted until it looked right.

Using some pieces of scrap wood as a brace, I glued and nailed the pieces together. You could also use screws here.

I flipped over the tree and using a straight piece of wood marked my triangle. I wanted my wooden Christmas trees to all be tall and skinny triangles. Make them any size or shape you’d like though. I marked my lines with a marker.

I cut triangles with my circular saw which gave the edges a nice clean cut. I reattached and glued some of the top pieces if needed for more reinforcement.

Because this wood was old and dry, I grabbed some oil based polyurethane to seal up the wood and re-hydrate it. This really darkened the color of the trees.

From beautiful old reclaimed wood to a set of wooden Christmas trees in 7 easy steps!

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~Jenni