Furniture made of plywood, we make furniture from plywood with our own hands, useful advice

Before you begin to independently produce high-quality furniture from plywood that will last for a long time, you need to know all its properties and rules for correct processing of this material.

Basic rules of working with plywood

1. First of all, beginners need to know that plywood is of different thicknesses and, depending on this, it is cut by different tools. For example, sheets thick to 1.5 mm are sawn with a well-sharpened knife, sheets of medium thickness (up to 6 mm) - jig saw, for sawing thicker sheets use a special saw with discs.
2. When there is a need for a transverse section of the plywood sheet, there is a risk that cracks will form from the cut line. In order to solve this problem, experts advise to make parallel cut cuts with a knife, which will increase the weakening effect.
3. It is not recommended to use nails and screws if plywood sheets are joined if holes of the required diameter have not been drilled in advance.
4. If the construction is made of plywood made of soft wood varieties, then under the hats of the fasteners put washers.
5. If it is necessary to bend the plywood sheet, it is first soaked and then held for 12 hours in a bent at the desired angle, state.
6. To make a high-quality gluing of plywood parts, grinding with sandpaper of the entire surface is required, which is planned to be applied with glue, then uniformly applying it and placing the entire glued part under a kind of press until the adhesive is completely dry.
7. If the operation of the plywood structure is planned in conditions where any exposure to moisture is possible, the gluing composition must be selected from a water-resistant series of adhesives.
8. The parts to be glued must be positioned so that the fibers are parallel to each other.
9. In cases where the plywood bundle has already taken place, you can try to fix the situation with paper pads nested between the stratified parts and glue.

Furniture with own hands from plywood, product drawings and assembly technology

Manufacturers of furniture designs appreciate highly the plywood as a building material. This is because the work with plywood is simple and straightforward. If desired, plywood furniture can be easily manufactured at home, with their own hands and without the presence of special skills and abilities. For example, you yourself can make a bed that will please native friends with its originality and uniqueness.

Make the workpieces of the bed parts

To build a bed you will need to draw a drawing of the product, or at least a sketch, to designate the dimensions on it.

Next, you need to prepare a sheet of plywood with a thickness of at least 18 mm, length 3 meters and a width of 1.5 m. From a single sheet you need to cut a piece of 2-meter length, which will later be the bed's bottom. From the remainder (1.5 m) you can build a head of the product. After cutting all edges are well treated with sandpaper. If the plywood sheet was purchased not laminated, then part of the plywood left for the headboard is covered with stain or paint and left to dry completely.

we construct a skeleton basis

Now it came to the construction of the frame foundation of the bed. This stage is important and requires accurate calculations, concentration and attention. The frame is made of a bar. You need 2 pieces 2 meters long and 2 pieces 1.5 meters long, but minus the width of the bar multiplied by 2. The pieces of the bar are fastened together with self-tapping screws or nails, in a staggered way with respect to each other.

The plywood bottom is mounted on the fastened frame structure. Its fastening takes place with long bolts. The legs of the bar are attached to the inner corners of the framework.

decorating the product

Lastly, the headboard is mounted with long bolts. It can be decorated with a cloth designed for upholstery furniture or any other desired way. The fabric is attached using a stapler. If desired, it is possible to lay a foam under the fabric, which makes the finished headboard more contoured and embossed.

Rocking chair from plywood

Often, in specialized furniture stores are models of single rocking chairs. Fans of creating furniture with their own hands can realize a dream and build a rocking chair for two. After all, you can spend time together much more efficiently and more interestingly.

prepare materials and tools

The first step is to prepare the building material and tools. The more quality the material will be chosen, the more convenient and practical the product will be. The process of manufacturing a rocking chair for two is not so complicated, as it may seem initially. With regard to tools, in any case you will need:

• electric jigsaw,
• a complete set of saws for wood,
• disc grinding machine with nozzles of different grain sizes (if this tool is not available, replace it with a hand-held router)
• screwdriver with drills and bits,
• angle with the presence of a dimensional, sufficient length, ruler,
• spatula, tape measure, hammer, pencil, paint brush.

Beginners should correctly and conveniently organize their workplace, that is, arrange all the tools so that they are directly accessible and can be used without hindrance at the right time. Only such an organization of labor will be the key to a successful outcome of manufacturing.

a rocking chair from plywood with your own hands - drawings and calculations

The second stage of the work involves the creation of a drawing of the constructed structure. It is primarily needed for the correct calculation of the source material. Before you cut the side of the chair, you need to make a calculation (create a template) and transfer it to paper. Then, attach the template to the plywood sheet, circle it and cut 2 identical parts of certain dimensions. The main thing in creating sidewalls, when cutting with a jigsaw from plywood, on the part in contact with the floor (swaying), when cutting, prevent the formation of protruding and sunken parts.

we cut out the blanks and prepare all the necessary materials

The third part of the work will consist of cutting out plywood and timber bars. Here you need a plywood thickness of at least 30 mm. From it, as already stipulated, will be cut out the side parts of the chair and screeds-holders (800 x 120 mm). From the bars cut out the workpieces that will be needed for the design of the backrest and seat of the chair. The cross-section of the timber should be 50 X 25 mm. The number of running meters of the beam will have to be calculated, solving the following problem: for the design of the backrest and seat of the rocking chair, you need 35 bars of 1200 mm each.

Before buying a bar you need to know the length of its cutting in a specialized store, in which the purchase is planned. Based on this information, the correct calculation will result, in which excess material will not be purchased. By placing a template on the material, you need to try to do this as much as possible multiple, to make so that the residues and wastes were as small as possible. For attaching wooden fragments, you will need 12 pieces of screws 5 X 120 mm, 140 pieces of self-tapping screws 4 X 45.

In principle, at this point, we can assume that the initial stage of the work on the independent production of the rocking chair is completed. But, to get the final result, we will have to continue the production process using the following means: a special varnish for coating wooden surfaces, drying oil, antiseptic, putty. Their purchase can be made in the same building hypermarket, in which the purchase of tools and building materials took place.

we grind the parts and give the surfaces moisture resistance

The next part of the work will consist of sandpaper processing of all wooden and plywood parts, as well as in the alignment of the edges of the parts. If the chamfering is done using a grinding machine, this process will not take too much time. If the work is done manually, then you have to work hard. Taking into account the fact that the rocking chair can be operated on the street, all the ends of the product are required for careful processing.

It is necessary to protect the structure from the harmful effects of moisture and dampness. Such protection is produced when there is unimpeded access to all sides of each of the parts. The end part of the parts must be impregnated, heated to a certain temperature, with linseed oil. At the same time, the wooden fibers on the end part, slightly flattened with a hammer. Having done this, you can count on the fact that moisture will practically not penetrate into the product through the end parts. The process of treatment, impregnation and varnishing must be carried out 2 times before the assembly of the product.

rocking chair assembly

Now you can proceed to the final process of work - to the assembly. At this stage, it should be remembered that there are no clear and explicit standards in the manufacture of this interior product. How to place a recess for the king, will prompt logical thinking: in the lower part, in the upper part and in the middle from the outside of the side arch. The kings should be pulled to the side. On the sidewalls pre-form the markup. Then the lateral parts are joined and a through groove is drilled in them by an eight-millimeter drill.

In order to drill a hole in the end of the bar, a 5 mm drill is required. Now you can produce a skeleton screed with screws. The notches for the king are also pre-marked on the details, then folded and drilled through. In order to correctly and accurately drill holes on 35 bars, you will have to resort to the help of a conductor. This is a kind of marker that helps to perform markup on a set of identical fragments.

On each bar designed for the backrest and seat, it is necessary to drill 4 holes (2 on each side). The conductor can be made independently. You need to take a piece of the same bar length of 250 mm, drill holes in it for a sample of this size, so that they included a pencil, which will be marked.

The assembly of the product can be called the longest and most painstaking work. Between the attached bars should leave a distance of 15 mm. In order that no distortions are formed, a distance corresponding to the width of 6 bars is taken from the side, taking into account interval 15 mm. Compare with template inserts. If there are no deviations, the fixing work can be continued. If deviations are noticed, then they will have to be corrected.

The final work already on the finished product is reduced to puttying the holes obtained by twisting the screws. Then it is processed with an antiseptic and 3 times open the surface of the structure with a water-repellent varnish.

To ensure that the resulting product has served for a long time, all work on its production must be made as diligently and carefully as possible.