- What's up world?
This is Brad from Project Build Stuff
and today we're building this awesome brass
and wood spice rack.
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Let's get it started by grabbing our materials.
I start by my local home store
and picked up three 1x3's as well as a 1x6.
You're also gonna need some 3/8 dowels
as well as five 1/4 inch brass rods.
Back in the shop we're gonna breakdown all
of our lumber to its final dimensions.
If you're interested in building one of these spice racks
for yourself, be sure to check out the link down
in the description for the full sketch-up file
with all the measurements.
To ensure that the like pieces of this spice rack
stay the same exact length,
I'm gonna be doing what's called gang cutting.
So I'm taping together the like pieces
and them I'm gonna take them to my miter saw
and cut them all at the same time at the same length.
Then I'll know they're all perfect.
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The wider six-inch boards are gonna be used
at the top of the spice rack to hold cookbooks.
But I'm gonna use the same method to cut them to length.
The next step is completely optional,
but for the spice jars that I bought, I need all of these
to be just a little bit thinner.
So I'm cutting about a 1/4 inch off these thinner pieces
and about 1/2 inch off the larger top pieces.
This is only to accommodate the spice jars that I bought.
If you don't have a table saw or a way
to rip these boards down,
don't worry about it you can keep 'em at this 2 1/2
and 5 1/2 size that we got 'em from the home store.
That'll work just fine.
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Okay, all the pieces are cut to their final size
and I like to lay 'em out on the table like this
so I can see and make sure
everything's fitting together correctly.
It is, but I'm really happy I did this
cause I was about to start drilling everything together
when I realized I still need to make the recesses
to accept our brass rod.
The brass rod is gonna be captured
between the two side of the spice
and we need to drill holes in order to accept that.
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I'm gonna be using my drill press
to drill all of these holes
so they're nice and straight.
But if you just have a hand drill, that'll work just fine.
Use whatever you've got.
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Okay, let's start getting this thing put together.
The first thing we need to do is drill our pocket holes.
I want to hide those pocket holes as much as possible,
so on the smaller lower shelves I'm gonna
put the pocket holes on the bottom, so you can't see them.
And then for the top shelf where the cookbooks are gonna go,
the pocket holes will go on top,
so the cookbooks will cover them up when they on top.
I think that'll work pretty well
and you shouldn't be able to see 'em when we're done.
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The next step is sanding.
But I don't even want to watch myself sand,
I'm definitely not gonna make you guys watch.
So instead (fingers click) that's better.
Nice and smooth.
Let's get to assembly.
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If you don't have a bunch of long clamps don't worry.
These small corner clamps are super easy to use
and really affordable,
I'll leave a link for 'em down in the description.
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Once we have our three shelves attached to our side,
we're gonna install our brass rod
in those recesses we drilled earlier.
And then we're gonna attach our second side.
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For our top cookbook shelf, we're gonna use the same method.
A couple of pocket holes
and then we'll install our brass rod
and put on the second side.
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(drill whizzing)
Okay, our top and bottom are fully assembled
and I'm really happy with them.
But before we put them together I want
to fill all of the pocket holes in with our 3/8 dowel
that we bought.
This will make it look a lot cleaner
without all those big holes all over our project.
Let's do it.
Instead of using store-bought pocket hole plugs,
we're gonna use our 3/8 dowel instead.
We're gonna glue 'em in place
with a little bit of CA glue
and then hammer them home.
Using this method is way more cost-effective
and will leave us with a much nicer finish in the end.
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(multi-tool whizzing)
There are a ton of different options
for cutting off the excess dowel,
my favorite is to use a multi-tool like this.
It works really well.
But if you don't have a multi-tool, not a big deal,
any hand saw would do just fine.
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Then you just need to sand it smooth.
To ensure that I don't have any gaps,
I'm gonna fill all my pocket holes
as well as any joints between two boards
with a little bit of wood filler.
This is gonna make my paint job look so much better.
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Our last step before painting is to attach our top
and bottom together.
It's much easier to fill those pocket holes
and sand with these two detached.
So I save this step for the end.
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Man, this thing looks awesome.
But I'm not loving this wood look
so let's head to the basement
and get this thing painted.
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Whenever I'm painting raw wood like this I always like
to put down a coat of primer first,
which is the gray you're seeing,
to get a nice smooth finish
before I put my final coat of paint on.
I went with a nice bright white.
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It's finally time to get this spice rack
hung up on the wall
and I'm so excited to see how it looks.
I'm gonna be using some of these 30 pounds
super simple wall hangers to get this thing hung.
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Last but not least, we can't forget about the spices.
I got these spices off of Amazon,
and I got custom-made labels off of Etsy.
I'll leave the link down in the description for both.
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And there it is.
This thing is beautiful
and it's really just an eyecatching centerpiece
for my whole kitchen.
I can't wait to be enjoying this thing
for years to come.
If this is the type of project you want to build
for your own home,
be sure to check the link out down in the description
for the full sketch up files with all the measurements
so you can build this for yourself.
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be sure to subscribe so you can see all my future projects.
And until next time, it's your turn, go build stuff.