How to Make a Wood Star With a Dremel
- 1). Draw a star on a piece of cardboard or create a star pattern with a computer printer. Cut out the star from your pattern with scissors.
- 2). Hold the paper or cardboard about 1 inch from the edge on a piece of wood and trace around the star with a carpenter’s pencil. Remove the pattern from the wood.
- 3). Press and lightly hold the shaft lock button on the top of the rotary tool. Turn the collet nut just below the shaft of the bit counterclockwise by hand until the drive shaft lock engages. Still holding the lock button, continue twisting the collet nut until it loosens. If there is a bit already in the tool pull it straight out to remove it.
- 4). Insert a rotary cutting disc into the collet as far as it will go. Tighten the collet nut clockwise until it is hand tight.
- 5). Put on eye protection and overhang the piece of wood with the star drawing off the edge of a table or work bench.
- 6). Place the edge of the cutting disc on the surface of the wood near the exterior of the star pattern on the wood. Turn the rotary tool on its highest speed and move it toward the star.
- 7). Guide the cutting disc's edge around the star pattern to cut the pattern out of wood, turning the wood if need be to reach all edges of the star. Cut from one tip of the star past the next tip in a straight line to keep the points straight. Re-insert the disc edge and cut from that tip to the next.
- 8). Replace the cutting disc with a sanding disc and tighten it in the collet.
- 9). Sand all of the cut edges of wood on the star until they are smooth. Sand the tips of the star very lightly on the ends so they do not become round, but are no longer rough.
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