Check out these snowflakes and how they can be used as tree ornaments, gift toppers, wall hangings or other neat ideas.

This past month has been a lot of fun as I’ve been having a blast creating wooden snowflakes. Crafted from hardwoods including Ash, Maple, Walnut and Red Oak, these snowflakes are a lot of fun to create while presenting some special challenges to hone my skills.

I’ll post more about the creation process for these in the coming weeks. In a nutshell, 6 diamond-shaped pieces of wood are the basis for the design, with different grooves and shapes being cut into each of the 6 pieces before they are glued together into a snowflake “log”. This log is then sliced into individual snowflakes on the bandsaw and then the real fun of sanding, filing, sanding, sanding and sanding comes in.

Here are some examples of “blanks” ready to be turned into snowflakes, plus several “logs” in the lower right that are ready for sanding, gluing, sanding, slicing and sanding…

Finally each snowflake is finished with the specifics depending on the wood type used.

Check out the Wooden Snowflake Gallery to see a few of the examples that we’ve created.

Stay tuned for more details on the snowflake creation process, plus a blog about the new Wooden Leaf prototypes I’m working on.