Wood Candle Holders

I’m in conclusion sharing my forest candle holder DIY project! I’m SO excited because I LOVE how these candle holders turned out! It was very slowly to make, but I couldn’t accept done it without the assist of my hubby in addition to his ability tools. If yous accept access to some tools, yous should definitely reckon making these! 

Materials Needed to Make your ain Wood Candle Holder:

• Birch tree log (we but cutting 1 downward from our family’s acreage!)


• Mitre Saw


• Drill Press


• Sand newspaper or an Oscillating Sander


• Clear Sealer (we used this one)

The outset stride was finding a log. I wanted 1 that was almost three inches inward diameter. Ours is pictured higher upward amongst the dogs (they wanted to assist too!).

The adjacent stride was to cutting the candle holders to size. I chose to brand mine almost v inches tall, but yous tin actually role whatsoever acme yous want! We used a mitre saw for this.

At this indicate yous may desire to allow the forest dry out out. That is, if yous cutting downward a alive tree log.

Next nosotros had to grade the pump on the transcend of the 5″ pieces nosotros had cut. Using the drill press,  we my hubby drilled downward almost one-half agency (2.5″).

This is what nosotros were left amongst later on drilling! The insides were a flake rough!

To build clean them upward nosotros sanded the tops in addition to bottoms a bit, in addition to thus used the oscillating sander to sand the insides. Rolled upward sand newspaper sheets would also operate well!

Finally, nosotros added a clear acrylic sealer to the exterior to hand it some shine, in addition to forestall it from rotting :)

Below is our finished production later on sanding in addition to clear coating! I’m thus happy amongst how they turned out! They are unique pieces that literally terms me NOTHING because nosotros had all the tools already, in addition to the log was from woman rear nature :)

Each slice shows off its ain unique knots in addition to twists inward the bark.

Since I couldn’t await to present them off, I used them straight off for our thanksgiving tabular array decor!

As always, delight move out your questions in addition to comments below :)

And give thank yous you to my wonderful hubby who helped my projection come upward to life! Hope yous similar it equally much equally I dearest it!

For to a greater extent than wooden DIY projects, banking concern gibe out my wooden napkin rings in addition to rustic birch forest frame.

{xoxo}