5 Easy Christmas Gifts to make on a CNC Machine

Looking for DIY projects you can make on your CNC milling machine ? 

Here are 5 simple, Christmas-themed CNC projects you can run on your machine, with open source plans and the CNC files you need to make your own presents and decorations.

Any vinyl record lovers in your friends and family? This is the perfect gift for them, but it can also be used as a very stylish picture frame. 

Materials Used

For this project, we chose 18mm pine plywood, but you can use any material you like. You'll need a piece of wood that is at least 196 x 175 mm.
The pins are made from 4 mm brass round bar.

The two pieces of the frame are simply glued together with normal wood glue and a spring clamp (you can also nail them together if you have spring clamps).

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Candleholders are perfect for bringing the holiday spirit to your home or holiday dinner table! This candle holder will hold one standard tealight candle.

Materials needed

To make this project, you will need a 100 x 100 mm board of any material you like (we used oak - beech and cherry). The wood must be 17 mm, 25 mm or 35 mm thick.

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Our Reindeer Bottle Holder is sure to catch the attention of all the wine lovers at your holiday table! It also makes a great gift for anyone who loves wine.

Materials Used

For this project, we chose 18mm pine plywood, but you can use any material you like. You'll need a piece of wood that is at least 470 x 280 mm.

Since this project uses dog bones to join the pieces together, you'll need to edit them in Fusion360 if you want to use a different material thickness.

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An eco-friendly alternative to real Christmas trees, our pine plywood versions are a great project to keep kids busy during the holidays! You can pin nails to it to hang your decorations, or you can also paint the tree directly to decorate it!

Materials Needed

For this project, we chose 18mm pine plywood, but you can use any material you like;

Because this project uses dog bones to join the pieces together, you'll need to edit them in Autodesk Fusion 360 if you want to use a different thickness of material.

For the 24-inch version, you'll need two pieces that are at least 24 x 24 inches (375 x 560 mm) and one piece that is 24 x 24 inches (300 x 300 mm).

For the 40 cm version, you'll need two pieces that are at least 245 x 370 mm and one that is 200 x 200 mm.

For the 25 cm version, you'll need two pieces that are at least 160 x 240 mm and one that is 120 x 120 mm.

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Very popular but still a very original accessory, a wooden bow tie is a perfect gift to make for Christmas! We have given ours a nice 3D texture to make it very unique.

Materials

You can make this project out of any material you like, but we chose solid beech for ours. You will need a piece of wood that is at least 110 x 40 x 9 mm and 2 pieces of fabric. One needs to be 2 cm wide and 4 cm long, the other 1 cm wide and 25 cm long.

Once you have cut all your pieces and milled your bow, first glue the long piece of fabric to the back of the bow and then wrap the wider piece around the assembly as shown in the picture. You can use regular super glue for this;

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