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Step 2Cut out the wooden template
After printing out the template, I cut out the elephant, and taped it to the wooden board that was clamped to my worktable. I drew the inner cavity (where the coins go) by hand and proceeded to cut that out first with my jig saw.
As a tip, drill into the middle of the section to be cut out with a bit at least 3/8" thick, so that the jig saw blade get in there.
After the cavity was cut out, I sawed out the body. As you can see, I made the hole slightly too large, because the elephant broke in two, so I had to wood glue it and clamp it with rubber bands overnight.
After the glue dried, I sawed and sanded down the rough edges. This first cut out thus served as my template to trace onto the rest of the board in order to cut out three more identical elephants.
Alternately, you could cut out four elephants instead of three, and thus have a perfectly good wooden template to save for later projects, so that you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of making a new one.
As a tip, drill into the middle of the section to be cut out with a bit at least 3/8" thick, so that the jig saw blade get in there.
After the cavity was cut out, I sawed out the body. As you can see, I made the hole slightly too large, because the elephant broke in two, so I had to wood glue it and clamp it with rubber bands overnight.
After the glue dried, I sawed and sanded down the rough edges. This first cut out thus served as my template to trace onto the rest of the board in order to cut out three more identical elephants.
Alternately, you could cut out four elephants instead of three, and thus have a perfectly good wooden template to save for later projects, so that you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of making a new one.
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