How To Make Wooden Coasters

If not the resulting coasters might shrink and split.

How to make wooden coasters. Repeat with 150 grit sandpaper and 220 grit sandpaper. These homemade DIY drink coasters take an afternoon to make plus whatever drying time the chosen finish require. 12 inch Forstner bit.

You must get your wooden coasters. You can simply divide the length of your stock to divided by5 to determine how many wooden coasters you will yield. Route a 2 14-inch circle into the coaster using the circle-cutting jig by setting your router bit to a depth of 18 inch and routing out all the wood.

We ended up using some sort of pine. To begin cut off the end so that youre starting from a perfectly flat surface. Flip the block over and cut a similar-sized piece on the other side.

Insert the dowel pin into the center of the drill hole. Take your block of wood and run it through your saw at about 14 12 thick. This should help keep your hands safe throughout the cut.

In order to line up the coasters when they are stacked a matching reference hole is drilled into each piece which will have a dowel in it. Also the wood should be in good shape. Why spend tons of money on gifts when you can make personalized photo coasters at home for less than half the price.

Found on Cooking Like Lou 20. Scrap pieces of wood at least 16 inches long and 12 inch thick. Now bring your block of wood to your table saw to start turning them into your wooden coasters.