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Rustic DIY Wood Slice Cake Stands

Modified: Jan 6, 2025 · Published: Sep 6, 2012 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

DIY Wood Slice Cake Stand: tutorial to make your own wood slice cake stands perfect for rustic entertaining, parties, or weddings.
DIY Wood Slice Cake Stand: tutorial to make your own wood slice cake stands perfect for rustic entertaining, parties, or weddings.

We're having a camping themed birthday party this weekend, and as soon as we finalized the theme I knew I wanted some rustic a DIY wood slice cake stand for the dessert table.

Luckily, I just happen to know a guy with a chain saw and a forest at his disposal.

cutting wood slices

My friend Dan did me the amazing favour of finding the wood and cutting it for me. In fact, when I described what I wanted to do, he knew more about it than I did.

He explained to me that we would need to find some wood that had been down for a while and had had some time to dry out. Other wise, when you cut your tree rounds, they split as they dry. This is some important info -thanks Dan.

cutting wood slices

After a fun walk in the forest with the kids, harvesting our materials, and a wonderful mini vacation with our friends in Haliburton who not only own their own chainsaw, but know how to use it 😉 it was time to head back to home to the "city" and put them together

Materials:

  • wood slice for the top
  • smaller wood piece for the base
  • sand paper
  • wood glue
  • clamps or something to use for a weight, like books
  • spray varathane

How To Make A Wood Slice Cake Stand

The first job was securing our wood slices for the tops and the smaller wood pieces for the bases.  Once home I started sanding the tops of the tree rounds.

how to make a wood slice cake stand

I used my palm sander to smooth out the tops. I don't mind things a little rustic, so I wasn't too bothered that they weren't completely level. If you're bothered by these things you should relax you could use a level and an electric plane to make sure everything lines up.

DIY wood slice cake stands

After they were all sanded on top I used wood glue to attach the top to the bottom.

making tree slice cake stands

You could use clamps to hold the wood while the glue dries...or if you have no clamps you could use cook books - see those fancy cookbooks you rarely open are useful. 😉

DIY wood cake stand

After the glue was dry I sprayed the tops with a little varathane to seal the wood. I love how they turned out.

DIY wood slice cake stand

Can't wait for the party on Saturday, and praying it won't get rained out!

how to make a wood slice cake stand

With beautiful a DIY Wood Slice Cake Stand, life really is a party!

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  1. Laurie @ Vin'yet Etc. says

    September 17, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    These are just awesome! I happen to have a guy and he has a chain saw AND we live in the middle of the woods! win, win, win!

  2. connie says

    September 06, 2012 at 9:54 am

    they turned out great!

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