How to Make a Clipboard from Scrap-wood

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Published 2020-05-29
In the shop, I often need to jot down some notes or sketch out a project so I decided to make some clipboards.

Start off by choosing your wood, I choose the wood that had the most figure in it. I ended up making two clipboards so I went with walnut and curly maple.

In my case, I had to resaw the walnut so as to give me a book-matched pattern. Make sure to leave your material thicker so that we have room to process it.

Running the boards through the thickness planer I cleaned up the faces.

If the boards fit well line mine did you can skip jointing them. But if not I highly recommend you do that.

Next glue the boards together, clean off any excess glue and if needed run your board through the thickness planer so that everything is nice and flat.

Once I had a good clean surface, I laid my note pad and the clip to determine how large to make the final clipboard.

Using a crosscut sled, I then cut the board to its final size and sanded up to 300 grit.

Using a socket to profile the corner I used my belt sander to round them over.

Next to measuring the exact center of the clipboard I used blue tape to outline where the clip would be epoxied.

The epoxy will hold, but I think screws would have been a better choice but I did not have screws short enough.

After the epoxy is hard, I applied a couple of coats of Tung oil.

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Tools Used:
Block Plane
Thickness Planer
Tablesaw
Bandsaw
Sand Paper
Tung oil


Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:12 Resawing
0:23 Processing
0:30 Glue-up
1:18 Cleanup
2:52 Sanding
4:10 Positioning the clip
5:18 Epoxy
6:52 Applying Finish
9:23 Done!

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All Comments (21)
  • @KellyConcepts
    Nicest clipboard I've ever seen. This is a great Etsy shop item, I bet it's cheap to ship across the world.
  • @TheGrantAlexander
    I'm pretty sure clipboards is how we first met. Glad to see this on on the done list! Cheers!
  • @MamatasPavilion
    new friend 1.03...k.. glad to join you. like 23.. happy to watch, very nice! stay connected dear friend !
  • Hello my friend. Good idea to write project drawings or notes. I like this wood board. You did a good job. convenient and stylish. Congratulations on the project and the way it works smartly, hiding great experiences. Greetings to see you.
  • @XDIY
    Nice! I like the combination of the 2 colors. Well done.
  • @williamlau2405
    What a wonderful clipboard! Thanks for sharing! I wish I had the wood working equipment to make this clipboard...
  • @KirstiePervinDavies
    I really want to make a clipboard. I just keep forgetting. Must ad it to the project list. Nicely done. Looks great πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ˜ also... the chapters thing is so cool. I must look into how you did that!!
  • @MakerMaddox
    And of course you know I love the mechanical pencil flex
  • @Poor_Mans_DIY
    The clipboards looks great. It is nice to see that you and I put in the same type of research and precision to determine the best length for such a board (plop the notepad on it and mark a line that is longer than the pad. Perfect!!) they do say, brilliant minds think alike. LOL BTW, your closeup B-rolls are sweet!
  • @MorleyKert
    Lovely video! I love the masking tape trick to help with alignment and avoid epoxy smears. Subscribed 😊