Today, there are many ways to entertain yourself in your free time. Many are engaged in their favorite hobby, while someone combines business with pleasure and is engaged in serious craft. Among these hobbies are the assembly and manufacture of furniture or furniture panels. In fact, the process is quite simple and does not require special expenses. A wooden furniture panel can be made independently if you have at hand the necessary material and tools. Of the finished wooden panels, you can make a ceiling, wall cladding, window sills, doors and furniture. Such building material has strength and aesthetics. The cost of shields depends on the type of wood, category, length and width and can range from 400-500 rubles per square meter to several thousand.
What is needed for manufacturing?
Wooden billboards can be easily made with everything you need on hand. So, what materials and tools will be needed for this:
- Milling machine.
- Circular Saw.
- Hammer.
- Drill.
- Power Planer.
- Surface grinding and belt machines. Also, the wood can be cleaned using a regular emery cloth by screwing the material onto the block. However, this method takes more time.
- Reysmus.
- Roulette, pencil, a fairly long metal ruler.
- Clamps.
- Thin slats and plywood.
- Lumber.
Preparation for work
When all the tools and materials are prepared, you can begin to work. To make wooden furniture panels, it is worthwhile to carry out preparatory measures. First of all, it is necessary to determine the size of the future product. This will allow you to purchase the required amount of material. In any case, the workpieces should be not only long, but also sufficiently thick. It is worth considering that the finished wooden panels are smaller in parameters than the source material.
Boards should be selected only dry, with a small number of knots and even. The wood must be of the same species. When choosing a source material, do not forget about the properties of the material.
Joiner's Dictionary
If you are new to carpentry, then you need to remember a few basic names that will help to avoid confusion in concepts:
- Lamels are unshaped, whole preforms.
- Plots are separate planks and bars that have been sawn from a wide board.
- Plasti is the longitudinal wide side of the board.
- Svilovost - this concept characterizes a random arrangement in the procurement of wood fibers. A similar phenomenon is often found in cases where the material is cut from a butt of a tree.
- Sapwood is the outer layer of wood, which is located immediately under the bark.
Choose the right material
In order for wooden furniture panels to be of high quality, it is necessary to carefully select the material. For such products, according to experts, it is better to take plots that have a 1: 3 ratio of thickness to width. Such a material is more stable, since there is simply not enough internal stress in the wood to split the workpiece. Probably, many saw slats along the edges with cracks. These are precisely the cases when the internal stress has increased as a result of improper drying.
Material preparation
First of all, it is necessary to dissolve lumber on slats, the width of which is about 15 centimeters, but not more. At this stage, remove all defects that are present on the boards.
Before assembling a wooden shield, the price of which is impressive in the store, it must be taken into account that during drying the material can warp in completely different directions. When assembling products from such boards, you need to be careful. There are several directions: radial and tangential. In the first case, the material is warped along the core lines, and in the second, along the annual rings.
Simple rules
To connect the boards, you need to follow a few rules:
- The sapwood rallies with the sapwood, and the core with the core. This connection method avoids warping of the shield during drying, during which there is a decrease in the strength of adhesive joints.
- Material with pronounced pigmentation should be oriented along the line of annual rings. This will further reduce the deformation of the finished product.
How to make a wooden shield for furniture?
Making wooden shields is very simple. First you need to place the material in the right direction. In this case, it is worthwhile to achieve the optimal arrangement of all annual rings. On each workpiece, you need to make notes so that you can then reassemble the shield. After this, the ends of the boards should be fused off before gluing.
Prepared lumber should be folded into a bundle, and then grease the edges with adhesive. After this, the plots should be wrapped in polyethylene. This will not allow the glue to set quickly. Now you can assemble wooden shields.
It is better to tighten the finished product with a clamp. Now the shield needs to be thoroughly dried. Of course, this stage will take a lot of time. The product should dry well. After complete drying, the wood can be given a more attractive appearance. The finished shield needs to be sanded. At this stage, you can remove the remaining glue.
How to avoid warping?
So that the finished product does not begin to deform, you should resort to a few tricks. To cope with the warpage, which was caused by the pigmentation of the material, in the following way.
To do this, you can glue the lamellas on the dowels or with the use of a final tip. This will reduce deformation. To fix non-long boards, you can use the tip with a groove-comb lock.
There are other ways to connect the lamellas, which depend on the conditions in which the finished product will be used. When manufacturing a wooden board, this factor should be taken into account.