it's a little tiny irish guy dancing. you know what dance he's doing? of course, it's the microjig. maker of the grr-ripper.
woodworking bench sims, work safer. work smarter. the best advice i can give you for using palletwood is to be flexible with it. if you're following a plan,
don't expect to follow the dimensions exactly. i think it's helpful to look through all the different types of boards you have and adapt your project to fit the wood. for instance, when i drew up the plans for this project, i used 3/4" lumber. but none of these boards are 3/4" thick. they vary from a quarter inch
up to 7/8" i'll just make do with what i have. i'll use this thickest piece for my backerboard i'll cut it into two pieces and join them together to make a 6" wide board. i'm using my edge jointing jig to square up these edges so i can glue themtogether. so that gives me a couple of really nice surfaces that i can glue together.
now i'll cut down this sheet of plexiglass to the same size. one of the decisions to make when you're building a pallet project, it how rustic you want it to look. by planing this board down it looks almost like a brand new board. but i wanted that light color so that the dry erase markers
would show up easily. i like the look of these frame pieces so i'm just going to give them a light sanding. with the plexi in place i want to make a mark where these end pieces get notched out. and this should fit nicely over the plexiglass and that board. i'm going to use a stack of dado blades
to cut rabbets along one side of the top and bottom pieces. and i'm trimming a little bit off the lower piece. the final piece i cut was this little strip that will create a ledge for the marker to sit in. i want this plexiglass to be removable so let me show you how i'm going
to assemble this. these two rabbeted pieces are going to hold everything in like that and this is the little lip that's going tohold the pen. so that the plexiglass is removable i've make these notches deeper than this board. so in other words, when it goes over thislike that, there's still a gap between there that i'll be able to slide the plexi in andout.
i think i'll start the assembly by gluingthe top and bottom pieces on. i'm not putting glue all the way up into here because that's where the plexiglass is going to need to slide. i'll put these into position and use these to line it up. i can double check that i've got enough ofa gap there for the plexi.
yeah, looks good. i'll let that dry before i put the sides on. with those dried up, now i can glue on these end pieces. these dowels will give those joints a little extra strength and add a decorative element. this is a 1/4" dowel i'm gluing into theseholes. i'm bending these nails into hooks.
i've pre-drilled holes in the bottom of this and i'll epoxy these nails in. i'm going to attach this to the wall using these kind of plastic anchors and screws but i need to set the head of this screw below the surface of this board. now i can drill a smaller hole all the way through. i'm finishing this with spray lacquer. {advertisement}
i was thinking one thing that might be fun is to put a picture back there of somebody'sface. you could draw mustaches and glasses it would be wacky! if you liked this project and this is yourfirst time here i hope you will subscribe to woodworking for mere mortals. i have new woodworking videos every friday on this channel.
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