g'day my name's mark kicking off another project this one's all about the palette again
it's the third stool to go with the other two stools the conical shaped dalek looking things
that you can see up here this one just want to get back to basics with the pallet wood
bust down the pallets clean them up make them usable and then make something cool
this is where this thing is worth its weight in gold that you just bend over the nail and bottom
out it's a beautiful thing all my palette stats will go through the table saw to get their first
straight edge i've got two straightening jigs this one with the toggles is great especially when all
your boards are the same thickness it's very quick on and off the other one is for all my other rando
straightening activities now with this one if i have got all sorts of different
thicknesses of pallets i'll just have a couple of shims on hand so i can set the
toggles to the highest setting just throw a few shims in for the thinner boards and away you go
while i'm learning what looks cool what works is pick a piece of furniture that i have or have seen
and just use some of those angles because i like this profile um so i'm going to lay that down make
a template which i can then make a similar shape out of my pallet wood one of the great things i
learned when i built my workbench using cuffy's plans for the ozzy okay workbench is templates are
really going to be your friend you want to make two things exactly the same or multiples having
a template which you can line up reference everything's going to look super spot on so
i've got to do that mostly because then i need to be able to get the angles and the exact heights i
need for my stools so i don't want to pluck it um this will let me do it all exactly monday
i'm going to have two layers of pallet wood i'm going to work my way around
make up two layers so basically it's all interlocked with half laps
so
i've just elevated this off the deck so i can get clamps on it's going to be a little bit fiddly
but i just got to trust now all the angles line up i know they're all good and just
basically work my way around get as much glue as possible in as much places as possible and then
clamp the [ __ ] out of it
i'm not gonna do that [ __ ] if you want to see cool clamp removal stuff
head over to the grant alexander check out his videos and sub up he is a good man
it's hot okay uh that's number two done i've just checked each corner against the first one i've
glued up um they are all perfect except for one it's within a flies weiner so no one's gonna know
ever except for you next up it'll be a case of putting in half flaps everywhere to hold the
two pieces together i'll give that some thought for a while because of the angles of the dangles
check it out i'm actually using my awesome
woodwork bench that i made instead of over there on that [ __ ] thing
time to glue this up i've just got the footrest rail sitting in loosely just to make it stand
i'm now going to work my way around and get all the um the cross pieces glued on
and then we'll go to town with the czech squares to make sure it's all
nice and flat nice and square looking mickey mouse so i just had one more step had to
get the angles for all the braces so they weren't sticking up on top just took took
a measurement took it over the table saw and did all four so now i'm ready to glue
all righty it's gonna be a lot of check squaring
all the cross pieces are now attached now you'll notice these front pieces are only a
single piece of pallet thick i'm now going to add a second piece now for strength i've got a at the
moment it's pretty good i've got two screws with a half flap there's some pretty good surface area
i am going to take the screws out and put dowel in because i think it'll look better then going to do
is slot a second piece in on that inside edge again we're now creating a more complex joint
but we're only doing it with glue again it's it's merely just half laps basically so these all have
the same angle cut in then they just slot in glue them into position uh it'll mat it'll match the
aesthetic of the other side and i just wanted to use the word aesthetic that was the only reason
it's all looking pretty cool now um all the angles are done which does take a little bit
longer and when you've got two different angles front and back it's a little bit of
back and forth changing around but it's i think it's a good thing just to learn
those little tricks bevels angles all that sort of good bizarre saying that you could make this stool
completely square all sides and just go through the same routine just to get a feel for playing
with pallets and gluing them together simple corner journey but again it's going to be
nice and strong because you've got heaps of gluing surface area so that's what i like
all right i've just cut that angle on the table saw very carefully slowly i've just
got to take away this edge just to try and neaten up this footstool um
with the angles that i've got going i've also got to clear out that so it fits
snug against there so these are still little extra things i want to do just to
improve the skills basically and figure things out as i go
this has to get a capping piece on it which is a shame because the original idea was to have
to seal the end grain on my conical stools i had a complete disaster and i had to cut my losses
um and i end up capping it you still get to see the palette lamination which is a bit of
a throwback to the way i like to do things so as long as you get to see some of it happy days i've
just removed all those screws i've replaced those with dowel now i'm going to go around
with the filler this is the beauty of working with pallet wood you make mistakes there's little gaps
here and there you can just bog it up but what this stall is is nice and strong it's square
where it needs to be and it's trapezoidal where it needs to be trapezoidal a little bit of bog
sandpaper finish you've got yourself a pretty nice still that's why i like using pallets the wood is
free and it all seems to come together once you smooth it off hit it with some sandpaper hit it
with some finish all righty sticker spot to share that is goodbye why do you go and check him out on
instagram he's got a bit of a channel on youtube as well this is stickermate thanks very much okay
ah just about done to soften it up some more what i'm going to do is put some chamfers
uh on this inside edge just to change the chunkiness so change the profile a little bit
chamfers will just make you feel good on the inside so that's why i do it we are nearly done
pallet wood it's a beautiful thing
i have my two pieces this video is obviously all about making this now
these curved seat tops arseholsters with the backrest and these tiny little
sidearms you can check out how i made those in the cone shape
stool video it goes into all the bending and all that sort of stuff but it's basically
pallet wood veneers on top of some three mil ply which bends beautifully in the one direction and
for this seat back which is bent in two axis i've actually the the guts of this one is skateboard
veneers so a lot thinner a lot more pliable then it's all bolted together with threaded inserts and
these stainless steel bolts which i think look pretty cool that then goes on top and i bolt
the bottom on and it's nice and strong so bold's threaded inserts it's really just another cool
way of joining timber together uh the reason i got into doing this way is i basically pulled apart a
chair took the pieces used those templates to make myself a wooden chair i'll put a playlist um for
all the bendy chairs that i've done and a couple of long boards if you want more information on
bending wood the bendy part it's not that hard and then as long as you can straighten off the edges
get some bolts threaded inserts and you put it all together and you've got a really fun project which
will teach you heaps of cool new things rather than just all square all straight all the time
i'm just trying to check square with the front of the um from the c pin
still number three okay i've got the old hand tripod going on here let me show you
the finished piece um it's different i'll give you that but it's nice and strong
and it was heaps of fun to make
that's it thanks very much for watching this is my last project for the year i'll just have a bit
of a wind down now for christmas i'll just make a few rando things in the shed um i hope you enjoy
this one and hope you watch the other one as well it is the end of another pretty challenging year
for a lot of people so what you can do is just get out and support people get behind them and
help them get moving and kick off 2022 um with all good things alrighty okay catch you later
you