[music] 00:06 shane conlan: good day knuckleheads.uncle knackers here. today what i intend to do is to make a chair out of an old palletand some old hardwood fence palings. now i don't wanna make one of those big bulky palletchairs. i wanna make a fairly simple lightweight chair out of the parts or the components ofthis pallet and the hardwood fence palings. for the seat support, i'll use these railsand for the legs i will use some of these slats and for the seat or the part that yousit on, i want to use these fence palings. 00:40 sc: now just a quick disclaimer. i'venever made a chair out of an old pallet before, so i'm just gonna wing it and see how it goes.now, if it doesn't turn out that at flash,
don't give me a hard time. got it? good. 00:52 sc: so the basic components for my chairis that we need two long legs for the back. now mine are about 900 millimetres long whichis about 35-1/2 inches. we need two legs for the front which are 440 millimetres long orabout 17-1/4 inches and a base support for our seat. and the length is 450 millimetres,which is about 17-1/2 inches, and the width is 420 millimetres, which is about 16-1/2inches. 01:33 sc: now very quickly with the seat support,you'll notice that i've mitred the corners and it's screwed together with a couple ofscrews on either end. now the sides have screws in them, but the front and the back don'tbecause these are going to be exposed and
i didn't want the screw holes to be seen.and with the side, the leg is going to cover those screws. and like all pallet wood jobs,it's a great idea to plane and sand prior to assembly because it will make your joba lot easier. 02:07 sc: so once you get all your legs cutto the correct length, we'll need to cut a check out for our seat support to sit into.so measure up from the bottom of the leg up 440 millimetres, which is about 17-1/4 inches,something like that. and then for the length or the depth of that cut is the width of yourseat support. an actual depth of the cut itself is about 10 millimetres, something like that.and on the front legs, you just do the same process, but from the top down. once you'verun a series of lines through with a circular
saw, then get your chisel and just chiselit out nice and flat. [background noise] 03:14 sc: so there you go, all checked out.and looking beautiful. now just a little tip: if you can lay your hands on one of theselittle palm planers, they're absolutely fantastic for doing the finishing touches on things.and actually they're quite addictive. if you've got a nice sharp blade, you can't help butjust plain things down. they're fantastic. with the legs all cut out, it's now simplya matter of gluing and screwing the leg to the seat support. now make sure before youscrew, that you pre-drill using a countersinking bit, otherwise, you'll split this old timber.
04:04 sc: so there you have it. the legs areon and it's looking pretty good. now i want to reduce some of the chunkiness of theselegs so i'm going to run a taper and to do that i'm going to go in 45 millimetres fromthe bottom edge, put a mark there. go down 60 millimetres from the underside of the seatsupport, put a mark there and then run a line down and cut that off. now for the top ofthe leg or the backrest, we need to cut a similar taper which will make reclining backin the chair more comfortable. 04:45 sc: beautiful. so there you go, thetapers are all cut and for a first crack, it's looking pretty good. to finish this projectoff, all we need to do is attach these old fence palings to the seat support. how easyis that?
05:14 sc: there you go. and now look, don'tforget to put a couple across the top here for a backrest. 05:33 sc: so there it is, my rustic palletchair made from pallets and old hardwood fence palings. what an absolute ripper. now thisjob took me about two hours to build and the total cost was around $2 and that was forthe screws and the nails. the timber was free. now the chair itself is very strong due tothis halving joint on all of the legs. now if you do intend to build this chair, i stronglyrecommend using that type of joint. now the chair's reasonably light and easy to movearound and if there's one recommendation, for the taller person, i'd make this backsupport about two to three inches taller.
06:22 sc: now i'm in two minds about the colour,i love it in it's natural state like it is there, but i wouldn't mind experimenting withthis colour palette here for the seat and the back support. but regardless of all that,i absolutely love it and it's amazing what you can do with other people's trash. 06:45 sc: so there you go, what a top littleproject. great tip knackers. and don't forget, subscribe to my channel and give the videothe old thumbs up, it will be all greatly appreciated. so that's me down and dustedfor 2013. thanks to everybody for watching and i'll be back again early in 2014. so untilthen, have a great christmas. i'm out of here. cheers.