hi i'm chad. welcome to diybaron. today ihave a couple of things i want to go over in this video. one is i want to give you aquick tour of my shop or actually my garage. and show you where i'm working and show youa little bit of the progress i've made over the last year that i've lived here. and alsogoing to work on a work bench. something i've sorely needed for quite some time. here ismy garage where i do all my projects. my wife
ideal woodworking bench height, parks her car in here so when saturday comesand i'm ready to do a project i pull the car out and typically i would pull out these twoplastic sawhorses and set a piece of particle board on top and do my project right herein the middle of the garage. all my tools are on these shelves that i built when wemoved in. i also built all of these shelves
over here. when we first moved in there weresome really poorly made shelves going out to the middle of the garage so you couldn'teven park a car in here. so i tore those down and built these. even though my tools lookkind like a mess, i know where all of them are and this is only temporary because alsowhen we moved in this whole wall was just bare studs so i insulated it and sheeted itand one day, hopefully soon, i will build a workbench here and a great place to storeall my tools and have a much better shop to work in. for now this is what i have, andyou know, it just goes to show you don't need a really great space, you don't need a lotof really great tools, you just need a desire to build something. so i'm starting with thetop of my table with this particle board and
i want to make sure that it is square so iused my framing square and checked the corners and found that it wasn't square. so then igot out my tape measure to find out exactly where it went out of square. once i figuredthat out i put a couple two by fours on the ground as spacers and used my skil saw tocut off one edge to make it nice and square. then i started putting together the base ofthe table top. i found that some times the two by fours would split so i did pre drillsome of the holes. once i had the frame for the top done then i put the particle boardon top and screwed down the corners and then went back and screwed down the sides. i didn'tglue the top down so that in case i want to replace it in the future i can just unscrewit and put on a new top. next i flipped over
the top and started attaching the legs. forthe length of the legs i have a table saw that i want to use this table as an out feedtable for, so i measured the height of the table saw and then subtracted about an eighthof an inch so that it would work well as an out feed table and that is the height thati used. you can see i used three screws to attach each leg. the table is going to havea shelf on the bottom so i attached these spacers and i'll run the stretchers for theshelf across these spacers. this effectively gives me four by four legs for the table.then i ran the stretchers around that the shelf is going to sit on. then i added thebottom cripples to the legs. this completed the legs. the final step is to attach theshelf. to do this i had to notch out each
corner for the legs. so i layed the particleboard on top and measured out where i needed to notch out and then i used my jigsaw tonotch out each corner. once that was done i fit the board in for the shelf and it fitso nice and snug i didn't even need to screw it down. alright, so that's it the shop tableis done. i'm really happy with it. i think it is going to work out good. thanks for watching.please be sure to click the like button and subscribe if you haven't already. thank youand see you next time.