Mirror mirror on the wall,
who is the best DIY videographer of all?
Hmmm, that's a tough one.
What?
Well, you know, you're pretty good, but there's a lot of people out there doing some great stuff.
Well, yeah...
I mean even if we're just talking about the women,
you got Toolbox Diva up in Baltimore.
She does some pretty cool stuff.
Okay...
There's "See Jane Drill." She makes videos about just about everything.
And don't forget your admin on your Facebook group page, Laura Weldon.
She doesn't do videos, but she does amazing work, and she's
always so helpful to people.
Yeah, that's true.
Oh! And "Anne of all Trades"! She forges her own knives, for Pete's sake!
Alright, alright! I get it!
But you're pretty good!
No, you are! You are!
This mirror belonged to my mom, and it had a frame around it that was made out
of some kind of crappy material. I think it might have been made out of plaster.
She gave it to me, and I am going to attempt...
...to make a new frame for it.
And the only reason why I think this is even possible is because of this miter saw right here.
I got a couple of different pieces of trim from Home Depot today.
So I'm gonna do a little bit of playin' and see if I can make it work.
Thinking maybe I'll do something like this.
If I do that, and glue those to things together, I still have a little bit of space in there.
So I'm gonna have to figure that out.
This is oddly satisfying.
Maybe just a little bit more.
All right! Here we go!
All right, it's been a couple of days and these pieces are now dry.
In order to get this attached to the mirror the way I want, I'm actually going to
glue them in place around the mirror.
Now, in order to do that, I can't just glue them and walk away,
because it'll make a really crummy seam in between those two.
So I really have to clamp them down tight at the corners to each other.
There's a couple of different ways to do that.
Ideally I would have a corner clamp for each corner,
which would tighten them at a 90 degree angle to each other and hold them
there until the glue dries. Unfortunately, those are about 10 to 20 bucks each clamp,
and I would need four, so I really don't want to spend that kind of money right now.
Another option would be to use four different clamps like this, except bigger.
Two in this direction, and two in the opposite direction.
The problem there is that clamps that are large enough to fit this project would be
anywhere from $30 to $40 each, and again, I gotta buy four!
So, I thought of a different strategy and I'm hoping it's gonna work.
All right, I got this thing strapped together, and I did have to do some
little adjustments here or there, and it's not exactly perfect. But I'm gonna go in
at the end with some wood filler or maybe some caulk and fix it up.
Can't ever pass up a chance to say "caulk."
All right, I think this guy is finally ready to be hung.
It's been about a week or so, but most of that was dry time.
The corners on this didn't come out exactly perfect,
but for a first try, I'll take it!
You know, the more I look at this,
the more I'm realizing that this really is not the most structurally sound thing I've ever made.
So what I'm gonna do is add some brackets to these corners.
Ideally you would have these cool little "L" brackets that are made perfectly for something like this,
but I don't happen to have any of those, and I really don't
want to run all the way back to the home improvement store again.
So I happen to have a couple of these guys,
and I'm just gonna cut a notch out of them so that
so that they'll fit perfectly over this corner, and make it work.
Somebody call Tim Gunn!
That's actually a really cool idea for a show:
Here you have some aluminum foil, some wires,
and a screwdriver.
Make a working solar panel.
Do they have a show like that yet?
If not, they really should.
Any TV producers out there? Y'all call me!
So I have this planer I thought I would try. I just cut myself.
Good job, ChickFix.
I'm getting blood everywhere I gotta go get a band-aid
"Ouch."
There's someone in my house.
Somebody with a big, giant ball!
Ahhhhh!