![]() ![]() The middle of the branches are very thin and easy to break if you are careless. When you start turning the branches, start at the top and carefully turn them one by one. They are separated for the case of increasing scale. If you're using Bambu AMS, the nice thing is that your printer will only poop twice while printing with this design.īoth tree and base files are separated, but you can print them at once on most of printers. If you use a printer that supports multicolor (I use Bambu Lab's P1S), it's much easier to get great results. ![]() ![]() What's really cool is that you can get two different wonderful shapes depending on the direction you rotate the branches (see photo). If you print the tree with white filament and then paint the sides of the tree green before rotating the branches, it will look like snow has fallen on the tree. The floorboard is designed with the idea of grass covered in snow. After rotating all the branches to the right angle, you'll see a beautiful spiral Christmas Tree. And the branches have little bumps on them to hold them at the exact angle of rotation the designer intended. The tree is designed to have 40 branches that revolve around the trunk. After the first print, you will get a 1cm thick tree and a circular base. One is the spiral tree, and the other is the base to hold the tree. This project is in collaboration with Ryobi Australia. And let's be honest, what I love most about this tree is that it can be easily packed down and stored away until next year - no faux green bits, messy decorations or dried leaves anywhere in sight, hurrah! What I love most about this tree is that you can make a myriad of patterns with the timber slats - it’s the Christmas Tree that keeps on giving! And I have a sneaky feeling that creating a different design every year will officially become our new festive tradition. ![]() And now you can too with this very east to replicate tutorial by your side. I had no help, no instructions and no one telling me how to do what - I did this all on my own and that’s totally satisfying. When I put that last piece of timber over the metal pipe, I stepped back and couldn’t stop smiling. This is the most beautiful Christmas Tree I’ve ever seen - so much so that I am not sure I’ll ever top it! I know I should be more humble seeing as I made it myself, but I can’t help it. Ta daaaa! This is the Christmas Tree that keeps on giving… Then clamp each piece of timber onto your work bench, and cut a hole into the middle of each piece where you left a mark using the Ryobi Drill and the 25mm Flatwood Spade Bit. After cutting each piece of timber, smooth the edges with an Orbital Sander. You can cut several pieces at a time with the Ryobi 2000W 254mm Dual Bevel Sliding Mitre Saw. Step 3: Put on your safety gear and cut the ends of the timber using the mitre saw. It sounds counterintuitive, I know, but it works. It’s really important that you don’t mark the middle of each piece of timber by measuring each piece if you do the holes may not line up later on. Remove the string and nails, then using a measuring tape or a spirit level, mark down the middle of each piece of timber with a pencil from bottom to top being careful not to move any of the timber (this will let you know where you need to cut a hole into each piece of timber later on). Step 2: Using a ruler, mark at least 1.5cm to 2cm out from the string then draw a line on each piece of timber from the bottom to the top you want to cut the ends of the timber at 90° angle - not 45° angle, so it’s important to draw the line up and done and not along the line of the string. ![]()
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