Wooden Christmas tree

[John Brown]

Anyone ever made a wooden Christmas tree?
We had a pot-grown tree for years, but it grew too big. We bought a smaller one last year, but, despite assurances that it was pot-grown, it died soon after Christmas. I have a real horror of fake trees that ry to look like real trees, I find them really tacky, so I wondered about a wooden tree. Anyone ever done anything like this?

 

[Brentingby]

Aren't Christmas trees wooden?

There seem to be quite a few choices out there. Try this.

 

[John Brown]

Good point!

Yes, I've seen those, I was wondering if anyone could give advice about making one.

 

[AndyT]

It's been posted before, but this YT video shows a traditional German way of making little decorative Christmas trees

http://youtu.be/1yWmqbltB-c

 

[heimlaga]

It is pretty easy. You just need a piece of wasteland of some kind. Plant some spruce trees....... and after a while you have a ready supply of christmas trees.

 

[Wizard9999]

I like this one, but it is all down to personal taste, so you and everyone else that looks may well hate it.

http://inhabitat.com/one-two-tree-an-ec ... any-space/

Terry.

 

[John Brown]

I like this one, but it is all down to personal taste, so you and everyone else that looks may well hate it.

http://inhabitat.com/one-two-tree-an-ec ... any-space/

Terry.

That is the one I had in mind. We have almost achieved concensus in the house on this.
I don't really care what non-family members make of it!

Mind you, it's not going to be cheap, if I use something half way decent timber-wise!
Anyone have any input on what would be a good choice? Not keen on ply, and it would need to be a fairly pale wood.

While I loeved the youtube video of the German man, I don't have a lathe, and more to the point, I don't have that sort of skill with a chisel. Incredible(to me) how he gets all those "branches" to look exactly the same. I guess you have to pick a very straight-grained piece of timber to start with.

 

[AndyT]

A few offcuts of studwork timber (spruce) from a skip could be resawn into thin strips. Easy with a bandsaw, possible without.

Pale, cheap and the right wood for a Christmas tree!

 

[bugbear]

I like this one, but it is all down to personal taste, so you and everyone else that looks may well hate it.

http://inhabitat.com/one-two-tree-an-ec ... any-space/

Terry.

That is the one I had in mind. We have almost achieved concensus in the house on this.
I don't really care what non-family members make of it!

Mind you, it's not going to be cheap, if I use something half way decent timber-wise!

We can work out how much wood quite easily; the page says it has 26 branches, and is 84.5 cm tall.

Some pixel counting gives a height of 332 pixels, so it's 3.92 pixels per cm.
Setting that resolution in Gimp, we can now just measure stuff on screen.

Top branch is 5cm, bottom branch is 68 cm.

Therefore average branch is 37 cm, and 26 of those makes 962 cm of timber, or around 10metres.

I presume it's built round a "spine" of threaded rod, although you could just put a thread on some plain rod
if you have a tap 'n' die set.

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Rawlplug-Thread ... m/p/215110

1m of M8 for £3.29

Edit; looks like they don't count their spacer blocks - add a little for those.

BugBear