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so I've got a little bit of a problem I
moved into this place it is a beautiful
space but I need storage like I have
boxes and boxes of stuff and just
nowhere to put it but I live in Tokyo in
the heart of Tokyo and so large
furniture at a reasonable price is kind
of hard to come by
I've been searching online for quite
some time but the issue is that there's
nothing in these signs or design that
I'm looking for so I have no choice but
to make it and I can never find my tape
measure got it so what I want is
something from this wall here started
all right so the plan what I want is
like a five layer shelf with metal
corners and dark wood so I I mean I'm
really not an artist so we're just gonna
trying alright this is the rough and
basic shape I think what I'm gonna end
up doing is doing the entire thing out
of angle brackets and pine but I'm gonna
stain the pine and I think I'm basically
just gonna support the entire shelf with
brackets like this that have holes in
them these will get bolted in right here
and the board will get screwed and bolt
it in through there and I'm thinking for
structural integrity I'll want to add
some eggs and maybe some wire across the
back just to hold the whole thing
together this is really just more of a
rough plan than anything else now some
areas of Tokyo have a lot of hardware
stores mine not so much it's gonna be a
little bit of a trek but we should
hopefully be able to find everything we
need there let's go
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huge plus they let you rent a little bit
of a que truck so long as you get it
back in roughly an hour you're good
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and just like that I gotta take a little
home it's a neat little system they have
and it's one that I appreciate because
there's absolutely no way I would be
able to carry all of that wood and metal
home it's just not happening
all right dropped all the stuff off and
now since that home center didn't have
all the parts I need they were shining
on one part I'm using this car to drive
to another home center to grab that part
and then drop this
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got it now it's time to go return the
truck two minutes late all good now to
get home inside the build all right that
wasn't well enough but I'm gonna need to
clear this place out so that we can get
it set up properly
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dating can be really messy so I want a
protective place
speaking of which things are probably
gonna get a little messy so you know
what this is gonna get warm
thank goodness for static you ever watch
Dexter if you ever go to do a DIY
project in Japan like greatest piece of
advice for you it's if at all possible
avoid craft shops like Toki you hands
they will massively overcharge you for
everything if you can grab everything
either online or at a Home Center
obviously would would be better at a
home and I should probably clean up as I
go along otherwise this is gonna be
terrible at the end they're all honestly
just the build of pine and the black
might look nice together I'm not a huge
fan and I want it slightly darker so
first I gotta clean up these boards and
then stain them it this is really gonna
take the longest out of everything
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see this is why I wear this suit it
doesn't have to be perfect because I
want to kind of keep that vent rustic
imperfect look to it but just a little
bit more to go and now we can start
staining I don't want to use liquid
stain and get it all over the place so
I'm actually gonna use why just an old
t-shirt
probably should have one to go out to
spit but on the plus side only four and
a half more boards to go so
it's night now straight-up dark outside
those are all stained I I'm probably
only gonna do the one layer of stains
really need to wash my hand I'm just
gonna leave those till tomorrow morning
guys so we're on to hoods
hopefully gonna be the final day of this
last night I took about an hour so just
to wipe the wax off of all the boards
and let them dry and then this morning I
went over them with a coat of spray vera
thane just to give them a bit of
protection again it doesn't need to be
perfect like all in all they look decent
enough and doesn't come off all my
fingers so I think we're ready just to
just to put it all together to think
about I don't talk about it very much
but my family actually raised me to
build things my father builds so did my
grandfather and growing up my family
always made sure that I had access to
tools in parts anytime that I wanted to
build something and I am by no means a
master carpenter and this may come
together
terribly in the end but I like making
stuff so back to MIT
step one is marking
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hurting it so that is one roughly gun I
want to start building the base
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that's the top and bottom connected I'm
just gonna figure out the middles and
put it's coming together it's coming
together I'm not looking forward to
putting the feet on that's that's just
gonna be tedious and
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boards are all prepped I'm just gonna
screw em all in the next I just have to
put each one in its respective place and
each one is predetermined where it's
going
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all right to look at that you might even
think that it's done but I need to take
these bars here and crisscross them like
this to give it a little more structural
integrity and then just for the sake of
going overboard I'm gonna crisscross
this in an X just like that I just can't
believe we're almost done
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and there we go with it sure I'm gonna
clear out this plastic and then we're
gonna stand it up
a little bit of a secret I actually am
missing two bolts but nonetheless still
but should be okay this would be so much
safer with two people all right
actually moderately please have a turned
it but I gotta get this place cleaned up
so we can fill this up also I'm gonna
brace it between here so that of
earthquake hits the whole thing doesn't
just come falling over but let's get
this place cleaned up
it gets a lot darker in here that
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finally take that off and I'm telling
you if ever I have earned a nice hot cup
of today today's the day in case you're
wondering about the black blankets
across the window there acoustic
blankets it gets really noisy out in
Tokyo and it just helps manage the echo
in the room as well in fact I've got one
right here so that the room isn't all
echoey and crazy but the shelf the Shelf
didn't turn out too bad I'm actually
pretty happy with it I may actually end
up making some adjustments to it like
adding more layers or stuff down in the
middle just so it doesn't start to Sag
because the wood does have weight but I
think hopefully this goes to show that
you can put together a bit of a DIY
project right in your home even a place
like Tokyo so go out and make something
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