I want to make this for my baby, that’s due in August, nursery.

I have a cabinet saw, router table, chop saws, circle saws, planer. All the “basic” wood working stuff that I don’t know how to use


I can rough the shape out but I’m thinking a scroll saw for the mountain top part? Would that make it hard to get straight line cuts?

Thanks

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Hand saw (crosscut)
Jig saw
Band saw

Any of those will work well.

What about cutting the white area (snow cap)? You can see it’s cut separate from the rest in one solid cut with right angles and reattached?

Coping saw?

That is a single board they demarked between the light and dark with a tool.

A cross cut hand saw.
A drill if you want to predrill your holes for the hook screws but could get away with just screwing them in assuming they’re not the soft grade of chinese screws that have the hardness of peanut butter.

That demarcation line could be done carefully with a utility knife with a new blade and a straight edge. Two cuts to cut a shallow V groove.  Paint the groove as they did.   A small router with a V or U groove run along a straight edge would be the easiest way though.

Edit, the demarcation line may be a simple line drawn with a wood burning tool.

That project is a simple one.

They may have used a coping saw to part the two board colors before staining then rejoined them but it isn’t necessary, masking tape and being careful with a gel stain on the lower part.  Remove tape then seal the whole shebang with poly.





If they actually did cut the parts apart before staining they probably used a scroll saw. and a thin saw blade to make those middle interior cuts.  A half inch band saw blade wouldn’t make that sharp turn but one could band saw in then switch to a hand coping saw.

There are often dozens of ways to do wood working tasks.

Shit I found a video. They used a wood burner to make the grooves. Interesting.

As mentioned above. You dudes are always on point.

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Bang. You got it dude.

To answer the original question, how to make that from 2 separate pieces, i would use a band saw.  Cut the first side and get all the edges and corners how you want them.  Then put the mating edge on top of the second piece of stock and trace it.  Cut it out with the bandsaw.  Then when they both fit together, cut the 2 vertical outside edges so they match up.

I like this idea. I like the 2 separate looking pieces

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you could probably mask off the top and then stain the bottom,  let it dry then poly over both?