Thread: Cheap and easy groundbreaker coffin

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I wanted to try and make a fairly cheap, lightweight, and easy groundbreaker coffin. It's partially enclosed no removable top so there are many uses and alterations that can be done. I didn't have anything in order to do this so I went shopping.

I bought a $12 4 x 8 sheet of 7/16 inch cdx pine plywood at Lowes that they cut to (4) 2 x 4 sections for me. I like the imperfections and light weight but it's thin and hard to nail so I also bought a $6 bottle of gorilla glue. Then I bought a $15 dollar jig saw from Harbor Freight to cut the wood, and a 5 in 1 hobby tool (soldering iron) for $8. I was going to use both for my tombstones anyway.

I started with a top then added side and back pieces by using gorilla glue to glue them together. Then I used the soldering iron to burn the cross on. I only used a little over (1) 2 x 4 piece so you can probably get 3 depending on the dimensions you choose.

After doing this one it looks like I could make another and leave the top most piece off in the back and hide lighting underneath.

It should look good at night with some dirt around it.

Looks great!

That looks really good!
I made something similar a couple of years ago:

Slim-line Groundbreaker Coffin

I like it! I am planing on adding one to my haunt this year....!

Yours looks very well done Dave. I only had one thing pop up when i tried searching earlier but it wasn't yours. It was more of a full size one. I like the slimline.

That was my first attempt. I still have plenty of wood left to work on more and hopefully a little cleaner. I had no idea what size or angles I would need so I just eyeballed it. A have no way to do angles for the boards to be flush but I figured as long as I can throw something together fairly quickly and easily and it looks good at night that's what I'd try to do for now

Hmm. Maybe I'll do this instead of a paper mache corpse ground breaker.