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I’m partnering with Lowe’s to celebrate all the amazing dads out there who have shown their families just how creative they can be when it comes to DIY projects. And as a little inspiration for your next DIY project, today I’m showing you how to build a simple bench with just a few materials!
This week, share your dads’ best creations with us on social using #DadBuiltThis and tag @DadHowDoI and @LowesHomeImprovement. We’ll be surprising some of these amazing dads with Lowe’s gift cards to help fuel their DIY creativity and keep them building! On behalf of myself and Lowe’s, Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing dads out there! We can’t wait to see what you’ve built.
Note: Always follow proper safety guidelines when operating power tools, including wearing safety goggles.
I will cover all of these tools eventually on Tool Tuesday.
The “chop saw” is really a compound miter saw.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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hey kids hey thank you so much for
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uh your encouragement with the lowe’s
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sponsorship
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um i thought it was a good fit and fit
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in right with my channel so
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i was happy to do it and team up with
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them for father’s day
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to recognize some fathers out there
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so remember to get your dad’s projects
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in um with
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uh dad how do i at
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lowe’s home improvement and hashtag dad
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built this
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and throughout the next couple of weeks
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i’ll be surprising dads with
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uh some five thousand dollar gift cards
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and then lowe’s
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and its partners will also be surprising
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other dads with uh
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hundreds of gift cards so i got a bonus
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video for you today
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actually it’s going to replace my
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thursday video because it’s a pretty
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long video
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it’s on how to build a bench um using
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about
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thirty dollars worth of materials um
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it’ll be covering lots of tools so i’m
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getting out ahead of
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everything here a little bit um but i
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wanted to produce this for
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for lows for this weekend for this week
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uh
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so um we’re kind of getting ahead of
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ourselves again on the tools
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i’ll eventually cover them all in depth
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but i kind of needed these tools for
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this particular project
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please remember to wear eye protection i
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wear my glasses so
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i’m covered but if you don’t wear
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glasses wear eye protection
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also be very careful i’m using a
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compound miter saw in this video
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um i call it a chop saw just for
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simplicity’s sake but it’s really a
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compound miter saw or just a miter saw
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would usually do
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as well so be very careful because those
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saws can do you know they’re
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meant to rip through wood so they can do
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a lot of damage to other things too so
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please be careful
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i also want to uh call out my local
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lowe’s manager marquise great guy
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he’s just such a a great young man and i
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wanted to recognize him because he’s
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uh he gives me hope for the future just
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a great young man
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um and first i got a dad joke for you
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too uh
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that’s actually dad advice i would say
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don’t trust
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atoms they make up everything yeah
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so on behalf of myself and lowe’s just
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want to say happy father’s day to all
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the amazing dads out there
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and we can’t wait to see what you built
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all right so here’s what the project’s
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going to look like it’s going to be a
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bench
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fairly simple bench that way you can
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just about anybody could do this with
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limited amount of tools and there’s
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different variations we could do on it
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so i just need a one two by ten board
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two by ten inch by eight and then one
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two by four by eight
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we won’t need that whole eight foot
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board but um
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and you’ll see how we’re going to do
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that and then we need two brackets
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and then two packs of these brackets so
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those are the brackets i need
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and then these are the the l brackets
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that i’ll need two
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two sets of them and you’ll see what
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those are for and then some screws
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if you can see those screws uh
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i think i need about 12 of those and
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then glue is good and then another
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variation that we’ll want with this is
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um you’ll use a dremel if you want to
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you don’t have to it’s just another
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added touch that we can use so i’m going
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to go ahead and get started
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okay so when you pick out a piece of
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board you
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what you really want to do um so this is
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really rough
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i went for that i’m actually okay with
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it looking rough um because i’m kind of
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going for that look
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but when you when you pick out a piece
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of board what you want to do
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is you actually want to hold it like
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this and look down it and make sure it’s
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not
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curved curve that way or curve this way
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um
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okay and then look at look at it that
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way just make sure that it’s not
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it’s not bowed because if you start with
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a bowed piece of wood
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uh you’re gonna be hating it so um
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okay so i’m gonna go ahead and cut this
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board over here i’ve got my two by
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2 by 10 and then i’m going to cut
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i’ll cut that one right after that so
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i’m going to get a different angle for
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you
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okay so i’m getting ready to make my cut
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and um
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i’m going to cut two 16 inch pieces off
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of this
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six two 16 inch lengths okay and then
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i’m going to want a four foot board
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left over so i got plenty of wood here
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so what i’m going to do
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i’m going to cut this edge off just to
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make sure it’s a nice clean edge first
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then i’m going to measure 16 inches and
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cut that
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measure another 16 inches cut that and
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then i’m going to
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measure four feet right so 48 inches and
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cut that
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so i’m going to go ahead and do that
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real quick
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so here we go we’re going to go ahead
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and cut 16 16
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and 48 okay and here’s how you use this
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saw and work from
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front to back so we take it and bring it
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all the way here
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so there’s that i’m going to measure
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16 inches
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mark it
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make sure you pay attention to which
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side of that line we’re going on right
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we want to make sure this is 16 inches
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so we want to go on this side of the
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line right
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you can just set the blade down and
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adjust it
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okay okay we’re ready to go
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okay next one
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we need those both to be the same size
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because those are going to be our legs
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and we want it otherwise we’ll be
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wonky right all right
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all right so those are 16 now we just
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need 48
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for our bench this is going to be for my
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daughter’s
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uh bed she has a queen size bed it’s
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60 inches across and she wanted it to be
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just in just a little bit
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so we’re going to make this one 48
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inches
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for our top
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we can actually just flip this around
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just make sure you go on the right side
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of
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the 48 inches and i’m using this too you
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can see
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um because the height the height of this
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saw
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and i think most chop saws like this are
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uh
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three and a half inches so this is three
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and a half so you can use this as a nice
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helper on this side put it over here to
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support that other side right if you
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don’t have somebody else to help you
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so now
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okay
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okay that’s just a scrap so we got that
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okay that’s our basic
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bench and then now we’re going to cut
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this board and we’re going to want it to
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be
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36 inches in between you’ll see where
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it’s going to go i already know um
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i already know the sizes so anyway it’s
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going to be 36 inches
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so let’s go ahead i’m going to cut off
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one end
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just so we make sure it’s a nice
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straight edge
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and when you’re using the chop saw too
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make sure everything’s pushed up against
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the fence
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this is called the fence and make sure
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it’s pushed up
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clean against there and you hold it
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against there
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okay so now i’m going to cut this at 36
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inches
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okay i got all my pieces cut and we’ll
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start assembling
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um i may end up having to move that
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inside i’m outside in my backyard um
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because i don’t have a shop
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uh so um so you probably heard the crows
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chirping in the background but um
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anyway so i will kind of build it from
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here that’s
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kind of a i wouldn’t say that’s the hard
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part but and i think um
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if we weren’t social distancing you
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might be able to get those boards
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actually cut if you don’t have a saw
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or you could stop you could cut it by
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hand right um
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or um sometimes i think at lowe’s
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they’ll
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actually um cut it for you might have to
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you know sometimes that can take a
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little longer
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you could also use like a hand saw a
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hand circular saw to cut it
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might not be as accurate as a chop saw
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but again as we’re building your tool
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um tool kit then you can decide what you
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think you’re going to
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get a lot of use out of but you might
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just be able to use a circular saw
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because that will help you you can rip
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plywood with that and
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yeah and you could use it for a chop saw
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like this just might not be as
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perfectly square like it would be with a
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chop saw
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okay so here’s roughly what we’re
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building right so
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here’s my legs and then i got that brace
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that’s that 36 inch brace going in
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between and then this is the top
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and there’s so many different variations
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we could do on this we could
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we could use so there’s much i got these
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brackets on the outside they’re going to
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go here
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um before we do anything though we’re
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going to have to um
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we’re going to have to sand
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sand the wood down and so i just wanted
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to show you what but what the final
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product looks like
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and like i was saying um so with that
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dremel um you can
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add um kind of some cool designs on it
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and make it look like it’s beat up
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and like i said with this board see i’ve
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already got it it’s really rough
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and that people are into that these days
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where you want it to look like it’s kind
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of
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kind of natural and beat up instead of
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you know perfectly straight wood so
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um this is going to take me a little
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while i’ll show you what what that take
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what that um
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or how to do it and then i’ll sand these
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boards down before we come back together
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and put this together
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and then we’ll um and then you can even
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stain it too
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so it all it all depends on what you
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want to do another thing we could do
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depending on if you got the tools or not
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right you could cut a notch in here
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for the feet that’s kind of had to touch
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i might do that
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i’m just trying to show you you could
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just do this and it’d be pretty cool
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it’s pretty cool project but it all
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depends on how far you want to take it
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so
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i’m probably going to take it a little
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bit a little bit further just because i
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have access to the tools
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okay i’m getting ready to use my dremel
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on this uh
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and but i thought i’d show you this too
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so i started to work this out and then i
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realized i probably should show you
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these are called side cutters and
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they’re pretty handy this one’s this
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one’s getting pretty old
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but um anyway so this there’s a nail
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that’s stuck in the side of this
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and again you know we’re going for kind
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of a rustic look anyway so it doesn’t
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really matter but
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um so it doesn’t matter that even that
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the holes are there but that’s how you
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pull those out they’re pretty
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pretty easy to do that so so i’m gonna
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go ahead and show you
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um what i was gonna do with the dremel
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because you can kind of rough it up i
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already started right here where you can
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kind of make it look like it’s
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it’s rough even right even though it’s a
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it’s
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planed and looks good you can rough that
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back up so it
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and all you do i got a sandpaper
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on the end here and then i just turn it
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on and then they just start working
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okay so we’re going to be using uh my
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sander here
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okay and i just want to show you how
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that works if you’ve never done it
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before
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um basically sandpaper comes in a sheet
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a meat and a half by
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11 sheet i think is what it is and it
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has different grits
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so on the back it says p80 and what that
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means is it’s
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80 grains of sand per inch okay and so
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when you get when you’re just trying to
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do something rough you want to go
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lower so like 80 or 60 or 40 if you’re
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really trying to get stuff off
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and then as you want to get if you want
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to get it smooth you go on up so you go
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120
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200 400 is really fine
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and so it gets a really smooth and for
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this we just kind of want it to be rough
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so i’m going to go ahead and use an 80
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plus it helps to
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you know if you’re using a fine
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sandpaper it’s hard to get this stuff
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off okay
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so and how this works is you just
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basically take it
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if you don’t have a scissors you can
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just bend it in fourths
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okay
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i’d have to bend it both ways
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make sure you get a halfway decent
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plankton does have to be perfect of
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course
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okay so we’re just going to rip it flip
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it that way
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and we fold it again
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okay
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okay rip that again
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get it started and rip it
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and that piece right there is meant to
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fit on a hand
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sander okay and with the way this one
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this particular one works i probably
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need to get a new one this one’s a
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little bit old but
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and a little cheap but it’s worked and
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so i just keep using it until it dies
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right
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okay so there’s that and then all you do
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is just
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i think i want to start from the back
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side so you just
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stick it in here that’s the way this one
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works other ones work differently but
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and then you clamp it down okay
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and i fold it over and then
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same thing over here just tuck that in
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in there
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i might have to finesse it a little bit
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but
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get it to curl up inside come on
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okay and then i got it and then i can
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clamp it down
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okay so now we’re good to go with the
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sand and i’ll just kind of show you what
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that is
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um just to speed things up i’ll do this
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on my own but i just want to kind of
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show you what that looks like so let me
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move the camera real quick
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all right so here’s the sander and my
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extra paper and basically i’m just gonna
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let’s go ahead and show what that looks
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like because you can see that see that
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mark right there that paint
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we’re gonna take that off
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okay much easier than trying to do that
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by hand right um and another thing we
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could do
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rather than use the drum hole is we can
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also use this on this edges to rough it
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up
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so i’ll do that too
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okay so you can see what that looks like
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we can play around with that so
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i’m gonna go ahead and basically do all
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these pieces of wood um before we
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assemble it
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um but i just kind of wanted to show you
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what i was gonna be doing
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and you know i might go ahead and sand
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it
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first and then i might even cut those
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v’s in it so but i’ll i’ll show you when
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i do that
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okay so we got everything sanded down
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and um
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you know i added some notches too like i
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said
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with that dremel just to make it look
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like it’s used a little bit
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a warm or rough cut
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and then you can see see where i’ve done
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it here too put a big gash
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in there it’s a little bit of work i’m
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not gonna lie it takes a little while
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you could use a belt sander or something
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for this too um the dremel works really
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well as long as you have
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uh a good rough sandpaper you can get
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through it
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fairly quick see how the edge looks kind
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of cool there too
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so it’s like a good a good painting
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though
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you don’t want to do you don’t want to
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overdo it because then it looks tacky
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right so um so just play around with
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that and you’ll get better at it as
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as you go along um and then also
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i am going to go ahead and cut a notch i
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already cut the first one
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um i got a notch in it so i’m going to
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cut a notch in the bottom of this and
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the way you do that
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the easiest way is um
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okay if you’re gonna be good at uh
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woodworking you have to
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gonna have to get good at fractions okay
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because uh it does get a little tricky
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so you’re gonna have to get pretty used
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to
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a tape measure and how it’s divided up
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right so
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so this is nine and a quarter
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so quick tell me what’s half of nine and
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a quarter four and five eighths very
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good
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very good so four and five eighths okay
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so we wanna go right in the center four
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and five eighths okay
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and obviously you can do this however
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you want but the way this is how i’m
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going to do it though
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i’m going to do a four and five eighths
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that’s right in the center that tells me
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where the center is
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and then i’m going to go up from there
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i’m going to go up four inches
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okay and then from each side i’m going
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to go in
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three inches
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this doesn’t have to be perfect again
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we’re trying to uh
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make it look a little rough so it
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doesn’t have to be perfect but you want
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it to be close
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otherwise it’s gonna look bad so let’s
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go ahead and draw a line
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from the center up to that four inches
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okay and then i’m gonna connect the dots
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here so this is three running over to
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there and the same thing here
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okay that’s what our foot’s gonna look
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like right so this is i already cut one
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out just so you can see what it looks
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like
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i’m going to go ahead and cut this one
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out and basically
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i’m just going to use this this jigsaw
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here um to cut that out right this one
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happens to be a cordless
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um fairly easy to use uh
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and then you can use a corded one too i
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think they probably have a little bit
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more power but
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anyway so i’m gonna go ahead and cut
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that out
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so be careful of your table right we
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don’t want to cut into our table so
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just cut right in here
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so if you look close here i’m using the
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dremel on this too again we want it to
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kind of look rough i’d still need to
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sand it but you can see how you can kind
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of make it look like it’s a
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a beat up piece of wood because that’s
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again that’s real popular these days
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okay so i’m gonna go ahead and finish up
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this leg and then the other leg and then
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sand it
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and then then we’ll get ready to stain
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it and
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we’re getting close now okay
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so um we’re getting close here um
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but right in here it’s a little bit
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tough to get with the
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what i was the piece that i was using on
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the dremel but that’s what’s cool about
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the dremel
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is you have all kinds of different tips
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you can use
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so i’m going to use this tip here and so
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i can get down in that crevice
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and clean that out good
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see so that’s much cleaner and then now
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i’m going to go ahead and sand it down
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and then we should be good to go with
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this one
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okay so we’re getting ready to to stain
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it
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um i would highly recommend you pick up
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some gloves because if you don’t you’re
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gonna end up with
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stained hands and it takes a little
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while to get get that stain off
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okay so i normally just like to wear
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just some
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latex gloves and then i just use a rag
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and we’ll start with this one i already
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i’m just playing around with it on one
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of the other legs so
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and it all depends on how much you let
20:48
it soak in
20:49
um to how dark it’ll be
20:53
so just kind of work it around
21:02
and what’s cool about this you could
21:03
pick a red stain you can pick uh
21:05
whatever stain you’d like to
21:09
change it to whatever color you’d like
21:10
so um
21:12
anyway this is pretty a pretty simple
21:14
process you want to go ahead and do this
21:15
this is just much easier before you
21:17
actually build the
21:20
build the bench because um if you go to
21:23
build the bench and then and you stain
21:25
it afterwards
21:27
um then your you know the holes and that
21:29
sort of thing you’re working around your
21:30
brackets
21:31
it’s just harder it’s so much easier if
21:33
you just go ahead and do this first
21:34
so all right so i’m just going to go
21:36
ahead and finish this up just stain all
21:38
these different pieces
21:40
um before we assemble them so
21:45
obviously that’s fairly simple um the
21:47
one thing you want to remember when you
21:49
when you’re staining though this uh the
21:51
rag can be flammable
21:53
so when you’re done don’t throw a pile
21:55
of rags in a garbage can
21:57
um because they can actually ignite so
21:59
you want to after you’re done with this
22:01
you just lay out the rag
22:02
okay and let it dry out all right so
22:06
i’ll go ahead and finish
22:07
staining these and then we’ll uh and
22:09
then we’ll just put it together
22:12
okay so i’m just about done staining um
22:15
i’ve got a few stained drops on my
22:19
nice shirt so don’t wear a nice shirt
22:21
when you’re
22:22
when you’re staining but i wanted to
22:24
keep it consistent i didn’t want to go
22:26
change my shirt
22:26
so oh well um
22:30
don’t do that though right don’t wear a
22:31
nice shirt when you’re staining so i’m
22:32
just about ready
22:33
just about done and then you just kind
22:35
of want to let this dry for a little bit
22:37
so
22:38
um see i’ve already stained all those
22:40
pieces
22:41
um and then i’m just wrapping up this
22:43
one
22:48
so so this is you know again it’s just a
22:51
two by ten
22:52
fur piece um but when it stains up it
22:55
looks
22:55
and that’s just a regular 2×4 and i
22:57
picked out uh
22:59
i picked that one that was looking rough
23:00
i think i showed you that earlier
23:02
so it looks like it’s um
23:05
like it’s rough cut almost and see how
23:07
it got some stain to it it looks pretty
23:10
and that was a pretty cheap piece of
23:11
board i think it was like three bucks
23:15
and i think this this whole two by ten
23:18
board was like
23:19
eight bucks right so this is a fairly
23:21
inexpensive project those brackets were
23:24
uh you know probably total probably
23:26
spent less than 30
23:28
on this bench um so anyway i’m just
23:30
going to go ahead and finish the stain
23:32
in
23:32
and then cap it and then i’ll uh
23:36
lay out my rag like i told you before
23:38
and then we’ll uh we’ll come back and
23:39
assemble it
23:42
okay okay so we’re back here
23:45
we’re getting real close now right we’re
23:46
gonna add the brackets um but we want to
23:49
make sure our legs are
23:50
centered okay so the top was 48 inches
23:53
if you remember right 48 inches this is
23:56
36 inches
23:57
okay and these are each inch and a half
24:00
inch and a half an inch and a half
24:02
okay so inch and a half plus inch and a
24:04
half is
24:05
three inches plus 36 is 39
24:08
right minus 48 what is that
24:12
nine right right 48 minus 39
24:17
is nine okay i have to think about it
24:19
myself
24:20
um so half of nine is
24:24
four and a half okay so basically we
24:26
want to do we want to
24:27
come in from each side four and a half
24:29
and it should put us right in the center
24:32
again it doesn’t have to be perfect
24:33
because this bench is fairly rough
24:35
but four and a half and then
24:39
cheat that over
24:44
so that’s basically four and a half so
24:46
so there we go okay
24:47
so that’s where we’re gonna be and then
24:49
we’re gonna put this bracket
24:51
um this bench again is for my daughter i
24:54
asked her if she wanted
24:55
because you could paint these brackets
24:56
too right if you wanted to you could
24:58
take them aside and paint them whatever
25:00
color you want she said um just to keep
25:02
them
25:03
the silver is fine so so this bracket’s
25:05
going to go on this side
25:07
okay this bracket will go go on this
25:10
side
25:12
and then we got
25:16
these l brackets okay got these l
25:19
brackets and they’re going to go
25:21
like that like that
25:26
like that and like that
25:29
okay but we want to make sure that’s in
25:31
the center too so we got to take a few
25:32
measurements just to make sure that’s in
25:34
the center
25:34
and then what i’m going to also do is
25:36
i’m going to i’m going to glue this
25:38
okay and then i’m going to actually
25:40
before i put these outside brackets on
25:42
i’m actually going to put a couple
25:44
screws into here
25:46
okay because we want that to be solid
25:48
and then this
25:50
will be glued and then these will hold
25:52
that all together because we don’t want
25:54
any
25:54
screws coming from the top right because
25:57
another way we could do this is we could
25:59
from the top put screws down into here
26:01
and that would hold it too
26:02
but we don’t want the the screws showing
26:05
on this particular bench you could you
26:06
could um put
26:08
put the screws in sink them down a
26:09
little bit and then you could put
26:11
cut a dowel and stick that dowel down
26:13
inside there that looks kind of cool but
26:14
we’re trying to keep this
26:15
fairly simple like i said i mean i i’ve
26:18
added these cuts to it
26:19
um on the legs you don’t have to um
26:23
yeah so and i did the dremel to it right
26:25
i’ve sanded down so you don’t have to do
26:27
that you can keep it real simple i’ve
26:28
stained it you don’t have to do that
26:30
so it’s however elaborate you want to
26:33
make it
26:36
okay so here’s what i did i ended up
26:38
marking this board
26:40
so i knew where i was gonna um
26:43
where i was gonna put that board right
26:45
so it just makes it that much easier
26:47
and then uh we’re gonna go ahead and put
26:50
glue
26:52
on here and then put that there and then
26:55
i’m going to drive
26:56
a couple of these screws
27:00
these are really nice screws because
27:01
they’re coated okay
27:03
and you want to make sure we’re going
27:04
through it and a half and we want to
27:06
make sure we get a bite there right so
27:08
we’re gonna
27:09
uh this is i think these are three
27:10
inches maybe even three and a half
27:12
inches but
27:13
the nice thing about them is they’re
27:14
coated and they drive right through like
27:17
butter
27:18
if you use this type of screw
27:21
which we’re going to use on some of the
27:23
smaller brackets because they need to be
27:25
shorter
27:26
um they’ll they squeak and make all
27:29
kinds of noise
27:30
right so um anyway you’ll see that this
27:32
thing drives right through so
27:34
i’m gonna go ahead and do one side and
27:35
then i’ll do the other side and i’ll
27:36
show you
27:38
okay so i’m gonna go i went ahead and
27:40
put a couple dots here to tell me where
27:42
i’m gonna put those
27:44
uh screws okay so i’m gonna go ahead and
27:46
start those i’ll just make it that much
27:48
easier when i go to
27:50
when i go to put it in the side there if
27:52
i already got them started
27:54
it doesn’t have to be exactly on those
27:56
dots it just kind of it’s got to be
27:58
somewhere close okay
28:05
see nice so i’m probably gonna go up a
28:08
little higher than where i put that down
28:19
okay um i know that i have this is three
28:22
and a half inches here
28:24
so i know i have three and a half inches
28:26
so so i’m good
28:28
right okay so now we’re gonna put some
28:30
glue on this
28:36
okay so i went ahead and put some glue
28:39
some glue on this edge
28:40
okay and now we’re gonna go ahead and
28:43
set this
28:44
guy up here and i’ve got that marking
28:46
like i said
28:47
right showing where that’s going to go
28:50
so
28:52
you’re going to be able to see this
28:58
okay so we’ve got that
29:02
and we’re gonna just press that up tight
29:06
now we’re finishing those screws all the
29:09
way in
29:15
okay
29:24
okay that’s that side we’re going to do
29:26
the same thing to the other side
29:28
okay so we’re on the back side of the
29:29
other one i’m just going to show you
29:30
what that looks like from this side
29:32
um i’m making sure on this side that
29:34
everything is lined up
29:35
right on this side i’m making sure
29:37
everything’s lined up with those
29:38
lines that i put so then you just hold
29:41
it tight i put glue on that
29:42
and then we do the same thing here again
29:51
okay same thing here
29:59
okay so before we put this the legs on
30:02
we want to put
30:02
glue on it okay so we’re going to go
30:04
ahead and put some glue
30:07
here across this
30:10
racket running across
30:14
and then here
30:17
okay now we can flip it over and we know
30:20
we want to have this four and a half
30:21
inches
30:22
from here so we want to be close since
30:24
we already put the glue down
30:26
we want to make sure we’re close when we
30:28
put when we flip it down right so we
30:29
don’t have glue where we don’t want it
30:31
to be so roughly there
30:32
doesn’t have to be perfect again so now
30:34
i’m just going to take it i’m going to
30:35
flip it over
30:38
i can see my little mark there
30:42
right perfect okay so now
30:46
four and a half inches we want to make
30:47
sure we’re four and a half inches right
30:49
like we talked about before
30:51
so i need to slide it a little bit more
30:53
this way
30:55
okay four and a half again doesn’t have
30:58
to be perfect but we want to be close
31:00
okay so now we’re putting that guy there
31:02
and the bracket is
31:05
i want that middle hole to be at four
31:07
and five eighths because this is nine
31:09
and a quarter so four and five eighths
31:11
again doesn’t have to be perfect but we
31:13
want to get close
31:14
okay so i’m gonna go ahead and put down
31:23
one we’re not going to um screw this
31:25
completely together yet
31:27
um we want to get it close and you’ll
31:30
see why
31:30
because you want to make sure everything
31:33
on the other side too
31:35
so we’ll make sure things are flush here
31:38
okay
31:44
okay
31:47
okay i’m probably gonna put one more
31:48
screw in here
31:50
just to hold it
31:57
but then we’re gonna go do the same
31:58
thing on the other side
32:00
okay so just flip the bench around just
32:02
to make it easy and i’m just going to
32:04
go ahead like we talked about we’re
32:05
going to go ahead and just put in a
32:07
couple of
32:08
screws here probably do this one here
32:15
okay go ahead and put
32:20
one here and make sure the bench is
32:22
tight down
32:26
okay and then
32:29
one more here and just make so i’m
32:32
pushing on this
32:33
on this middle brace here pushing down
32:35
making sure everything stays flush
32:36
right
32:39
okay i think i can just go ahead and
32:41
bypass that one because there’s another
32:43
screw right there so i’m not going to
32:44
worry about it let me grab a couple more
32:48
screws so we’ll finish this one off
33:02
[Music]
33:04
okay i can flip it around i don’t want
33:06
to put a whole lot of pressure on those
33:08
brackets yet so make sure you just
33:09
support
33:10
it from the bottom flipping it around
33:13
everything looks pretty good um
33:18
now we’ll go ahead and put these last
33:20
couple of
33:21
screws in
33:31
[Music]
33:34
okay we’re getting there we’re almost
33:37
done
33:38
so now we’re just going to put a bracket
33:40
here
33:41
bracket here bracket here and bracket
33:44
here
33:44
and we are done so um
33:48
let me measure those out okay so i’m
33:50
just about done um and the way i’m
33:52
spacing these out is i got
33:54
it doesn’t really you know again this
33:55
doesn’t have to be perfect you could put
33:57
them here and here
33:58
the only thing is is if you um if you
34:01
put them right
34:01
directly across from each other then
34:03
they’re gonna the screws are gonna
34:05
bump into each other right if i put this
34:07
here and this here and i put the screws
34:08
in they’re gonna run into each other so
34:10
you just wanna offset them a little bit
34:12
um so i got these ones coming in
34:16
uh let’s see let’s do that at six and
34:18
we’ll do that one at six
34:21
and then we’ll just offset the other
34:22
ones a little bit on the other side
34:24
okay so let’s go ahead and screw those
34:32
in
34:40
okay
34:45
and again i like to put a few screws
34:48
in and then work my way around and then
34:49
come back and finish them up
34:51
so you’re not
34:55
don’t put all the screws in this one
34:57
because then you might not you might
34:58
need to
34:58
wiggle it or something so it’s good to
35:00
just put a couple there a couple here a
35:02
couple there and then go back and then
35:03
finish it all up
35:05
um if you’ve ever put them together put
35:06
together something uh like a cabinet or
35:09
something
35:09
they always want to kind of leave stuff
35:11
kind of loose
35:12
until you um then go back and tighten
35:14
things at the end because it makes it
35:16
much easier rather than
35:17
tighten this side and then this side’s
35:18
loose and then you’re trying to reef on
35:20
it to get it to line up so
35:21
i’m gonna go ahead and finish these up
35:23
and then what we’ve just about done
35:31
okay we just about wrapped it up here
35:37
there you go
35:40
how about that you’re uh you’re in
35:43
business so
35:44
um we’re gonna go ahead and what i’d
35:47
like to do i think
35:48
and you always want to do this when you
35:49
make a project is uh
35:52
sign it you know make sure to sign it
35:54
and date it and
35:55
so that you know it went down
35:58
years down the road people were
35:59
wondering who who made that
36:01
um they know that uh it was made by
36:04
a relative so it’s kind of cool to do
36:06
that so like i said i’ll just sign it
36:09
um because i mean this for my daughter
36:11
i’m just gonna say to
36:12
christine love you dad um
36:15
and then the date so there we go so
36:19
um hopefully you’ll feel like you can do
36:21
that too
36:22
it’s a fairly fairly simple project but
36:25
it looks pretty cool and this will be um
36:27
for the bottom
36:28
or at the end of her her bed so okay
36:31
you got this all right so i hope you
36:33
learned something uh or how to build a
36:35
bench if that’s something you’re
36:36
interested in doing and just a few
36:38
different variations on
36:40
it so i just want to again encourage you
36:43
to
36:44
to go out and try something that maybe
36:46
you’re a little uncomfortable with
36:47
be careful with that compound miter saw
36:49
and your fingers
36:50
right so be very aware of that if you’re
36:52
running machines like that you know
36:54
you’ve got to be very respectful of that
36:57
of that saw because it’s ripping through
36:59
wood it’ll rip through
37:01
other things just as easy or if not
37:03
easier so
37:04
please be very careful when you’re
37:06
dealing with stuff like that so
37:08
uh all right i just wanted to wrap up
37:11
and say you’ve got this
37:12
i’m proud of you and on behalf of lowe’s
37:16
uh happy father’s day to to all the
37:18
fathers out there and
37:20
we can’t wait to see what you built or
37:22
what your dad built
37:23
thank you
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