How to Make an Wooden Jewelry Display
If you have a few minutes and a few dollars you can make this fast and easy. Not surprisingly, I had all the supplies on hand from left over scraps from older projects. So this didn’t cost me a penny! (Fun fact…Canada doesn’t use pennies anymore..does that mean we can’t use the old cliches? Penny for your thoughts etc.)
You will need:
- a board 5 1/2 inches by 10 inches (approx. size you can use a scrap that is close to this)
- 3/4 inch dowel (cut to 10 inches long)
- 1 inch dowel (cut a piece 10 inches and another 13 inches long)
- sandpaper
- 1 1/2 deck screw
- drill (to pre-drill the holes)
- 3/4 inch drill bit
- wood stain and rag (optional)
- sheet of cork for the base (optional)
Choose which side of the board is going to be facing upwards. Smooth the splintered ends with sand paper.
On the bottom side, measure the centre of the wood length-wise and width-wise.
Mark an X in the centre.
I predrilled the screw in a bit and set it aside for a moment.
Now we need to get the big drill bit out and drill the holes in the dowel that will be vertical.
This piece of dowel was an old curtain rod. I just used a handsaw to cut this down to 10 inches long
Drill the first hole about an inch from the top. I started by using a small drill bit to start the hole and then switched to the large drill bit to do the rest. Test it out to see if your dowel will slide in. If its snug twist it a bit. If it doesn’t go in drill the hole again moving the drill bit in and out to shave a bit more off the edges. Remember to sand off the slivery bits the drilling causes.
Drill the second hole about 4 or 5 inches from the top one. Before you drill you could use a bracelet to see if that looks like the right distance to have the next dowel added.
Now you can put it all together or you could stain it first while its all apart.
For some reason I put it together first and stained it after.
Oh! I should mention that I predrilled a hole in the bottom of the dowel so it would drill easily to the base.
Using a drill or a screwdriver attach the base to the upright dowel. Easy as pie!
You could leave it plain or stain the wood. I used Minwax stain “Jacobean” to finish mine.
Once the project is all together and the stain is dry you may want to put cork on the bottom side so it slides nicely on your furniture.
Have fun creating something new with your scraps of wood and dowel. Below are a few of my other projects using scrap wood.
Thanks for stopping by!