Wood recycling helps the trees to be conserved. By recycling wood, there will be decreasing number of new trees to be cut down. For wood recycling, there are many creative ways to reuse or produce those waste woods into useful products as wood is a material which is mostly used in most households. To build a custom shelf unit, it is one creative way to produce useful product for using in a house. You can use it to keep small utility items in any rooms of your house. Here are the easy steps for creating your own shelf from waste wood.
1. Prepare all needed materials to keep handy (hand saw, hammer, nail gun, wood paint, vanish, brush, waste wood, wood glue, sand paper, 1 1/4 inch nails and safety gear like gloves and glasses)
2. Sketching your shelf by using paper and pencil. You can design what you want the shelf look like. It can be a horizontal shelf or a vertical plan.
3. Measure the wood as the size of the shelf which you have already determined earlier. Mark the line on wood and cut it out by using table saw.
4. Arrange all the pieces of wood horizontally on the floor and place them as the design. In this process, there must be concern of safety as you need to involve with nails which can easily cause you an injury. Now you can start arranging from one side by using wood glue to stick them together and wait for glue to dry. Now it is the process of using nails to secure the structure. Use hammer to put the nails on the edges for joining wood together.
5. Using sand paper to smooth the wood at the rough edges. Then, put on the paint and varnish.
6. Now it is the process of installation. Let’s drill the holes on the place you would like it to be installed through the lower, back boards, and drive screws for securing the shelf to the wall.
