DIY Wooden bamboo windchimes to your garden

Add the music of nature to your garden with a gorgeous set of bamboo windchimes for a delightful sound effect... Bringing the sound of water and wind into your garden can enhance the hours of simple pleasure spent outside during the Summer months. A running water feature where a small fountain trickles over pebbles, or a set of bamboo windchimes gently clinking together in the breeze, adds a soft charm to any outside space. Bring some zen into your life. Just follow our easy step-by-step guide.

Step One

Mark out a circle on a piece of wood (12cms in diameter) and cut out using your Dremel 300 multi-tool, SpeedClic mandrel, spiral bit and line and circle cutter attachment. Then repeat to create a smaller wood circle (5cms in diameter). Then, cut seven lengths of bamboo (three x 30cms, three x 36cms, one x 10cms in length) using the multi-tool and wood cutting wheel.

Next, insert wood drill bit no: 4 into your Dremel 300 and drill six, equally spaced holes around the edge of the larger wood circle, two in the middle and another four holes set 2 cms in - for hanging the finished set of chimes.

Then, drill two holes through the middle of the smaller wood circle and two threading holes through each side at the top of the six lengths of bamboo and one through the top of the small bamboo piece.

Step Two

Cut away and shape the lower half of the bamboo pieces. Then, use a pen to draw your designs on each piece of bamboo and mark lines round the edges of the two wood circles.

Step Three

Insert the woodburning tip in the Dremel Versatip and burn your design onto the bamboo and the lines around the wood circles.

Step Four

Use cord to thread the small wood circle and small length of bamboo through the centre of the larger wood circle. Thread the longer bamboo lengths around the outside, then thread the four hanging holes and ensure the chimes hang evenly.

Difficulty rating :
*** 3 stars (moderate)

Materials required :

Dremel 300 Series multi-tool
SpeedClic mandrel SC402
SpeedClic wood cutting wheel SC544
Line and Circle Cutter Attachment 678
Spiral bit 561
Wood drill bits 636
Dremel Versatip with woodburning tip
Wood
Lengths of bamboo
Marker pen
Threading cord

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