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December 12, 2015 · Image Follow

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Here’s a tutorial on making a cute little wood sled in miniature.

Supplies needed:

1. craft sticks (Tongue depressor, co ee stirrer, popsicle stick thin, tiny dowels)
2. glue
3. exacto knife
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4. sand paper
5. stain Happy with the tutorials that I have
6. gloss posted and you wish to send me a
7. trim for rope little tip , here is the spot do do
8. something round to bend the wood runners around.  I used a jewerly wire jig. that.

9. patience
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Start with cutting one of the co ee stirrers (measure 1/4 wide by 5 3/4″ long) in
half.  Take your time and start with a light score and continue scoring lightly until it
cuts through. These will be the runners.

Cut a few in case some break.  Put on a small pan of water and drop the pieces
into the water.  Bring to a boil for 10 minutes and turn o heat.  Then let the wood
soak over night.  I was impatient and didn’t let them soak for a long enough time.  
So my wood wanted to split.

Here’s a picture of the wood runners put on the jewerly wire jig to dry.

Before I had a jewerly wire jig, I used 3/4″ dowels to bend the runners around and
tied to hold the shape until they dried.

Let them dry completely.  If you use the metal jewelry jig, you can put the runners
in the oven on low heat to speed up the drying.

Cut the following pcs from the thin popsicle sticks for your slats.

Notice on the above pcs you keep the rounded end.

Glue the 1 7 /16 and 1 1/4 pieces into a square. This is the beginning of the brace
of the sled.

With the shorter pieces being inset just a little.   Let Dry.

Next cut two  5/8′ squares

Cut Diagonally.  You will have four pieces.

Glue onto the longer pieces as follows:

and then the other side

Here comes a tricky part.  Cut a small piece to t inbetween the diagonals like a
bridge and glue into place.  It’s kind of  a trial and error to t them.  Do both sides
and dry completely.

When your runners are completely dry take them o the jig.

I have some splitting, so I have to ll, clamp ,dry and sand to get them more even.

After drying, glue the brace to the runners.

Try to get them equal distance on both runners.

Glue your slats like the above picture and let dry.

Sand Sand Sand  and more sanding.

I made tiny holes to mimmick nails on the slats and cut a brace out of the tiny
dowels to glue between the runners at the front.  This is where you will tie your
rope.

You can now nish your sled as you wish.  I used raw sienna acrylic paint mix with
gel medium to creat a wood stain and then sprayed on a gloss nish.  This is where
the handy grabbing tool works great for holding the sled to spray the gloss nish.

Love to hear about how your sled turned out.

Tina

Merry Christmas!

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2 thoughts on “Miniature Sled Tutorial”

Angelika Oeckl
JANUARY 3, 2016 AT 6:43 PM

This scene is just too adorable. I still have it on my computer as a desktop

background. If you ever make new ones. Please let me know. Now I can make the
sled by myself, so I only need the raccoons.

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teensyweensybaby
JANUARY 4, 2016 AT 1:50 AM

TY…..they were a blast to photograph …I will let you know when I make some
more raccoons in the future..

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