how's it going guys welcome back to Patriot DIY channel in this video I'm going to show
you how to make your own mirror frame [Music] all right guys now you might have seen in
a recent video we've been working on our bathroom here in the shop we've got our fixtures in
we've built some shelves on the wall but now we need a mirror to hang above our sink so
what I have is a piece of bare mirror and some of this Old Pine wall paneling that came
out of an old building that we were renovating for my wife's business now I don't know exactly
how old this is but it was held onto the wall with some of those old style cut nails which
was pretty cool I really like the design that's cut into it and I think we're going to be
able to use that to make a nice looking frame for our mirror in the bathroom now I'm going
to take you step by step on how to do this I'm also going to be giving you links in the
description below to everything we're using in this project but first guys if you haven't
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and give us a thumbs up that helps us out now let's get to work and I'll show you how
to build your own custom them mirror frame [Music] now since this is very old wall paneling
that was basically just ripped off the wall we do have a lot of bad spots in the wood
so first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and identify those and we're going to take
them over to the miter saw and cut out all the good usable wood that we can use for our
frame
[Music] now you need to identify the thickness that you want for your frame for mine I'm
going three inches wide so we're going to be ripping these down on the table saw keeping
the edge with the design on it for the use on our frame
[Music] now we're ready to go ahead and measure and cut these down to size for our frame we're
going to be doing 45 degree Corners you don't have to do it this way but over at our miter
saw we're going to go ahead and move this to the 45 degree angle and then go ahead and
cut one edge of our board to 45 degrees now as you're doing this you need to be thinking
about the size of the mirror that you're using the mirror that I have is 20 by 24 inches
and I'm going to want some overlap on the back of the frame so I'm going to be making
the inside dimensions of my frame one inch smaller than the dimension of the mirror itself
so we're going to go ahead and measure and Mark our Inside Edge to 19 inches or 23 inches
accordingly this will make more sense to you in just a minute problems
[Music] once I have all four sides cut I'm going to take them over to the table top and
just kind of test fit them together and see what my miter joints look like and it's looking
pretty good so we're ready to move on to the next step now there are several ways you can
join these Corners together but what I'm going to be doing is using my win biscuit jointer
and some wood glue
so I need to take each of my boards I need to measure and Mark out the center on each
end of the board so I can cut the hole for my biscuits exactly where they need to go
now this is actually my first time using a biscuit joiner and it's not that complicated
just line up with my mark push into the board and it makes a perfect cut in the end to accept
our biscuits this is going to be a great way to join these it's going to make a very strong
joint and I don't have to use any type of fasteners
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next I'm going to cut out a groove on the back side of my frame for my mirror to sit
into so to do this I'm going to set up my router table with a 5 8 inch straight bit
with a height of about an eighth of an inch then I'm going to run these boards through
the router table on the back of the Inside Edge and cut a half inch Groove along those
inside edges and that's going to give me the perfect spot for our mirror to fit into
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[Music] once I have those cut my little helper is going to help me with the wood glue and
sticking the biscuits down into the holes where they need to go and then we'll push
each section of frame together and clamp it into place so it can dry foreign [Music]
guys so we got the clamps off and this is what we got I think it is looking pretty nice
now I will admit I did not have a perfect miter joints here but that can easily be fixed
with a little bit of wood filler and one trick for that if you want to try to match the color
of your wood with your wood filler you can just use some sawdust from the project mix
that with a little wood glue and rub that in there that's actually what I did and I
got some pretty nice results from it it'll feel any small gaps you have and ultimately
I'm going to be painting this Frame so it's not going to matter too much anyway all right
guys you can see my joint here and it is not perfect by any means but any imperfection
that is there is not noticeable at all especially since we're going to be painting this Frame
anyway all right guys now you can see we have our half inch Groove that we routed in all
the way around this Frame that is where our mirror is going to sit into and we're going
to go ahead and test fit that mirror into the frame before we put our finish on [Music]
all right it sits in there perfectly it's inset just a little bit from the back of our
frame which is exactly what we want now let's get this out of here and we'll get to painting
this Frame all right guys now this reclaimed wall paneling that we used for this frame
obviously already has some type of finish on it but I'm not going to do anything to
that I'm not going to try to get that off or sand it off or anything like that what
we're going to be doing here just like a lot of our projects this is going to have a little
bit of a rustic look to it so for this project we're going to be dry brushing on some black
paint once that's had time to dry we're going to go back and lightly sand it to bring back
some of this wood color in the high areas and in certain spots to give it a little bit
of a worn and weathered look so let's get to it
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guys now that our paint's had time to dry I'm going to take some 120 grit sandpaper
on my sanding block here and I'm just going to very lightly sand away at some of the high
edges on the frame just to take off a little bit of that black paint and expose some of
the wood underneath foreign
[Music] just doing this semi randomly pretty much hitting all the high spots and then going
back and roughing it up in a couple other strategic areas just to give it a nice weathered
and worn look [Music]
now I don't want to go overboard here because I do still want the frame to be mostly black
but again I'm just kind of taking in taking it off and just weathering it or roughing
it up in certain areas I think that looks pretty good let me get you guys in here and
give you a closer look
so again the frame is mostly black but we've got that nice weathered rustic look to it
we went back and we just kind of hit it with that sander in all the right places and I
think the result is really nice looking foreign [Music] guys now we're ready to set our mirror
in here so what we need to do is just go ahead and flip it over and you can see we have our
half inch Groove all the way around now the way I'm going to do this is I'm actually just
going to glue the mirror into place now you could do this with just about any type of
glue construction adhesive super glue really anything but what I'm going to be using for
this is just some of this clear no foam Gorilla Glue I'm just going to put a thin bead all
the way down my groove here enough that's going to hold it but it's not going to squish
out the edges [Music]
all right then I'm just going to take my mirror and go ahead and drop it down into place
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and then I think I'm also just going to go ahead and set a couple boards here just to
help weight it down while that glue dries
[Music] all right guys now our glue has had time to dry and that should be more than enough
to hold this mirror in but if you are concerned you could always go in and put some glazing
push points or just run you some frame tape around the outside but now we need a way to
hang this on the wall we're just going to be using some standard picture hanging wire
and some of these little eye screws
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now we'll give the mirror a quick cleaning and then we'll hang around the wall
[Music] now I'm going to measure and mark the location where I want our mirror to hang
[Music] all right now the moment of truth let's see how it looks foreign
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that's it for how to make your own mirror frame guys hope this video helped you out
if you have any questions make sure you let us know in the comment section and don't forget
to use our links in the description thanks for watching guys please like share and subscribe
and we'll see you next time
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