Heart Star Marquee Light

Heart Star Marquee Light

You’ve seen these marquee lights (usually letters) made from metal, wood, or foam board. This one is made with the latest 3D printing technology. Though it could be reproduced in metal or wood, printing has some advantages you’ll see along the way. I made this one as a prop for this Moon Photo Booth for… [Continue Reading]

036 Moon Photo Booth

Moon Photo Booth

This is a photo prop for a wedding. Unlike most of my videos, this one is a time lapse of the construction process with no commentary (à la Jimmy Diresta). Feel free to ask questions in the comments if you’d like elaboration on specific steps. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did… [Continue Reading]

031 Dodecahedron

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A dodecahedron is a polyhedron with 12 faces. A Regular Dodecahedron is composed of 12 pentagons. In this video, I’ll show you the angles, jigs and technique I use to build one out of 1/2″ plywood. You can use the same process to build one out of any thickness material up to any size your… [Continue Reading]

025 Toddler Bench

025 Toddler Bench

Scrap, cutoffs, or extra pieces are often discarded as unusable or unneeded. Some get stockpiled while others get tossed. In this episode, I’ll show you what I built with just a few pieces of leftover hardwood flooring (bamboo in my case) and some 2×4 lumber. These items are likely to be the most common found… [Continue Reading]

013 Laundry Hamper Cabinet – Part 6

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In the final part of our Laundry Hamper series, we’ll assemble frames made from 1/2″ PVC. Mesh laundry bags will be hung inside the frames and attached to the doors using screw down self-adhesive zip tie mounts and zip ties. We’ll close up the back of the cabinet by nailing in 1/8″ masonite, cut with… [Continue Reading]

012 Laundry Hamper Cabinet – Part 5

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This 5th installment will deal exclusively with the doors; including fabrication, assembly, and mounting. The door frame will be a shaker style door made of 2.5″ wide solid pine boards. The flat panel will be composed of bead board wainscotting, the same used on the side panels of the cabinet. Door stops will be mounted… [Continue Reading]

011 Laundry Hamper Cabinet – Part 4

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Due to an unfortunate brainfart in Part 2, I’ll spend this entire episode assembling and installing a solid pine top over the existing plywood cabinet. I’ll start with 3 boards of solid pine, edge glue them together with biscuits, then attach it to the main cabinet using wood and screws. The knots in the boards… [Continue Reading]

010 Laundry Hamper Cabinet – Part 3

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We start this third installment with going over some of the mistakes I’ve made so far in this laundry hamper build and how I’ll go about fixing them. Then I’ll move on to cutting and attaching a framed, bead board, pine wainscoting on the sides of the cabinet. This will be the same bead board… [Continue Reading]

009 Laundry Hamper Cabinet – Part 2

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In this second episode, we continue our laundry hamper build with assembling the main cabinet, adding internal support ribs, cutting and assembling a face frame with pocket holes, then attaching it to the main cabinet. Products Featured in this video: Share G+ Pin Tweet Email

008 Laundry Hamper Cabinet – Part 1

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In this series, I’ll be building a 4-bay hamper.  I’m a little OCD when it comes to laundry.  I like to pre-separate and procrastinate so multiple large compartments work for me.  This is something I could not find anywhere commercially.  As they say, necessity is the mother of invention.  I’ve provided dimensioned drawings for this… [Continue Reading]