BAM Mr. Tarrou Today my wife and I are working on another wood project and like
we did in another video where we refurbished this bench out of a
discarded pallet we're gonna do some recycling and keep this discarded deck
wood out of the landfill by making an awesome bench our friends asked us to
make them this bench and this coincided with our neighbors replacing their wood
deck because of some rotten wood and such so my wife she went online found
some plans for a pretty simple bench something I could easily make with some
hand tools I'm not really a woodworker I don't have a full shop we're going to be
able to do this with a simple drill and inexpensive circular saw I've got a very
old Black & Decker belt sander and I've got a very nice new orbital random
orbital Dewalt sander and I finally have done
enough wood projects that I splurged and got a really good miter saw huge benefit
when trying to make some precise cuts so here we've got a before and after shot
kind of basically we've got the top and underside of the deck there's been some
seen in here already but you can see that they're obviously with some rods it
had been resurfaced a couple of times and we have turned you know the sampling
into this pile of supplies that we have here after a lot of sanding and cutting
out the rot we have got two pieces now this says 2x4 lumber but this decking is
one by five and a half's we're going to make some adjustments to the
measurements but we'd have two pieces of lumber that are 24 inches long and two
pieces of lumber that are 36 inches long that are going to make up the arms of
the bench we've got two pieces of lumber 60 inches long and four pieces of lumber
which is 18 inches long that are going to make up this frame that's going to go
below and support the seat we have five pieces of 2x4 lumber except really we're
going to have less than that we have three plus a little bit of one by
five-and-a-half lumber which is 60 inches long for the seat we've got two
pieces of lumber 20 winches long and one piece of lumber which is 55 inches long
for the stretcher now this is the blue piece that's underneath here for extra
support with my lumber being one by five and a half decking we're going to get
this bench built and then decide how much of this
extra support we need at the base of the legs we've got let's see that was D
isn't it yes we've got one piece of 1x6 lumber 60 inches long and seven pieces
of 2x4 lumber now my lumber is going to be 1 by 4 because of the rot we did cut
some of this lumber down four inches wide and all of these are gonna make
these vertical slats in the back and that's one by six for me or the two by
four by the directions are gonna make the top part of that bench and then
finally we've got two pieces of lumber 24 inches long which are going to be the
armrests and again I'm using one by five and a half inch decking I'm gonna go
ahead and make these arm pieces 4 inches wide that's going to take less seat
space out and like I said these vertical slats in the back are gonna be as close
as I could cut them by hand one by four lumber so here we have the frame
assembled for our seat and for our you kids that think you're never gonna do
fractions here's the math to figure out the space between the boards because I
can't use the plans I'm not using the same size wood you got 60 inches
takeaway four inches because each board is 1 inch in width that leaves you with
56 we have three sections comes out to 18 and 2/3 inch for each opening but of
course you can't if you're using a regular u.s. ruler not you can't take 16
and evenly divide it by 3 so we've got roughly 18 and 5/8 inch inches for each
of these openings now as I put in some 2 or 2 and 1/2 inch screws to attach this
frame in the middle we're going to have a screw at the top and the bottom of the
board to keep this middle one from rotating at the ends here I'm only going
to put a screw 1 screw in the center of this board because later as we attach
the 1 by 5's or 1 by fours that are going to hold the arms or the back of
the bench that's where I'm going to come in and put a screw through the top and
the bottom I don't want to hit a screw that I used to assemble this frame of
the seat so I've used my square to mark an inch down and an inch up on my board
and I've pre-drilled my holes and press on them
this greatly minimizes the chances of your woods
and taking the time to do this pre-drilling is a lot less time than it
takes to fix a piece of wood that has been split and it leaves you with a
perfect looking project to be proud of and as you can see we have kind of sunk
the screws a bit but you want to make these countersinks too deep that's just
going to give a place for it to hold water and accelerate the rotting of the
wood okay so now I'm using this little Kreg jig that is really really cool you
just set the width of the wood on the bottom of your jig it tells you what
screws go with the appropriate widths of wood that you're trying to mount
together and you get this special drill with a collar that you set for the depth
and very long bit and what you can do is drill these pockets that these screws
are going to go up into and suck the vertical slats of this bench into the
top board
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I am and here you go I have created with the help of my wife and some plans on
the internet a 60-inch very sturdy 60-inch wood bench out of salvaged deck
wood and let's be honest it would have been a lot quicker to just go to the
hardware store and buy some brand new wood I wouldn't have had to do all that
prep but this kept this out of the landfill you know one effectively was
free all I had to do was pay for some sandpaper and mentioning that with my
craftsmen not black & decker but my old craftsman belt sander I'm using a sixty
grit I like to buy the ceramic belts a for me or lasting a lot longer than a
traditional belt sanding belt on my random orbital sander I was using 120
grit sandpaper actual my wife did a lot of the sanding to you know take out the
smooth edges take all the splinters out and just give us a nice finish to this
bench by the way we've not sealed it yet but we will and when I was not using my
Kreg jig to attach the top board here to my vertical slats of the back I'm using
two and two and a half inch t25 wood fasteners wood screws
those t25 heads are fantastic they like never strip I used a little bit of glue
in these joints where the arm meets the back and you know some of these places
where there's a lot of surface area between the pieces of wood I just went
ahead and use the screws but in some of these joints to increase the strength I
did use some wood glue I am absolutely pumped about this bench I do not make a
lot of wood furniture and this came out absolutely fantastic I know my friends
are going to be happy when they receive this now we're jumping right to the
final project because there was a lot of noise in the neighborhood neighbor was
taken down a tree and so on and so on it just did not lend itself to doing a
number of individual assembly scenes so let me give you a tour include some
measurements of you know the heights of the arms and the seats and so on so that
you can make this on your own the by the way I could just say this the
seat as determined by the plans is 18 inches off the ground I guess apparently
a standard seat and bench height is around 16 to 18 18 inches
up it's very very comfortable and the depth here for this design as you saw in
the plans is 20 inches it's extremely comfortable bench
there's no incline to the back but if you put you know the seat depth is deep
enough that as you put some some small pillows along the back of this bench
you're gonna get a nice incline it's gonna be very very comfortable these
arms are extremely sturdy it's just it's just fantastic
and to think that it was just salvaged wood that was going in the trash it's
awesome now as we prepared the wood to make this bench as you saw from the
other side we we prepped this wood so it would look like it was brand-new you
know that we really made a nice piece of outdoor furniture but on the back of the
bench as we did the sanding we left a little bit of the finish from that deck
but you know just to let you know or anybody else that sees this bench that
this wood has had a previous life and we thought it added a nice character
actually all of the wood has this partially sanded surface just on the
back of the bench this is the only place that you can see it and I think I don't
think I've said this yet because it's not the first take for this video but to
attach this the large back of this bench to the seat
I had the seat sitting on the ground vertically and had my wife you know help
hold the bench at the appropriate measurements as I attached these four
screws now I'll do some close-ups with some measurements here but all of these
screws if these decking these deck boards were one inch wide so I took some
too much wood screws I pre-drilled all the holes and as you saw earlier in the
video made some pre counter something you did some pre countersinking drilling
I don't really know what the real word term for that is but since the would
each of these slats are exactly one inch thick I used a pair of good wire cutters
and just knit the points off of my wood screws since I pre-drilled the holes
anyway so it wouldn't go through so I've got a screw that just goes almost
completely through the complete two inches of material but I wanted to make
sure that my all my screws did not go all the way through and any screw
that I put into this bench that we're going into another perpendicular piece
of wood I used a two and a half inch screw just again give it a little bit
more strength
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this video inspires you to do your own woodworking project
I hope the plans in the measurements I just gave you help and I mentioned a
couple of times that I'm not really a woodworker I'm actually a math teacher
so you can find over 600 math videos on my channel as well covering everything
from algebra all the way up to calculus 2 and AP statistics so if you or any of
your kids or friends need some math help hopefully you'll find those just as
helpful if not more because that is my living then
this video I'm mr. true I am go do that project
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