End tables #1

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Steampunk End Tables Part 1

Been really loving making reclaimed pallet wood builds. My Pallet desk really set me off on this Pallet wood fixation. I am a huge steampunk fan and pallet wood works very well for this. With that being said like before If any build works for this blog and my steampunk blog it will posted on both. you can find that blog here.{ Steampunk-Journey }

With that said on to the blog post.

 So unlike my other pallet builds I wasn't going to do this one in all Reclaimed pallet wood. I started with a pile of 1x4 pine stock. I cut enough for the legs down to 26" for a rough cut finish cut would later be cut to 22".

 Ripped all the pieces on a 45 degree angle on both sides. Started gluing and nailing the quadrants together. The main reason for this for anyone who doesn't know was to have four legs solid with no end grains.

 I then made the top rails for the table tops. again this is pretty self explanatory. Then added a piece of 3/4 plywood to the top so that the pour on poly cant leak through the pallet wood chunks when its time to do the poly.



The pallet wood part is really my favorite parts of this build. This part is an awful lot like making and putting together a jigsaw puzzle. The hardest part of this part is less fitting the pieces together and more trying to get a more random look to it. however I think it came out pretty good and fairly random.

I finished the pallet wood part of both the end tables and cut of all the extra wood. I really loved the way the tables looked with the wood jutting off in all directions however for an end table it wouldn't work very well. So I cut off all the extra wood reluctantly as to finish the tables with nice flat sides so nothing could get cought on them.

After I added yet another layer of wood around the outsides of the end tables so as to have a tubed section for the poly to fill. 

And with that we come to then of this post next for these tables is a nice thick coating of pour on poly some stain and finish routing.

Stay tuned for updates.

Hope you enjoyed reading!
As I said before any post that fits for my steampunk blog and this one will be posted to both. Even though this is not very steampunk I feel it would still fit. You can check out my Steampunk blog Here!

For more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks again for reading.

Log Waterfall

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Log Waterfall

This project was started purely out of boredom.  I can't remember what made me think of this but it just popped in my head that I have never seen a waterfall made out of logs. I have seen log waterfalls but not made of actual logs. While I was at my cousin's house I noticed a pile of logs on the side of his garage so I figured why not.

I started trying to cut the log length wise with a chainsaw but the blade was terrible so instead I reverted back to spitting it with a wedge and sledge. I split a few logs and bored out a bowl in the big log. 

Stacked the logs on top of each other. it was not very easy to secure them however a few nails and ledger locks later the logs were attached nicely and bored out a little pathway down the logs for the water to follow.

I had all the logs bored out and secured to the base now I needed a way for the water to be introduced to the top of the fall without it spraying all over the place. I took a smaller log piece and drilled the center out now this small log piece was to be mounted to the top on an angle so that the water would leak out to the correct spot. After I spay the whole thing down with poly and sealed the base the best I could with some silicone.

Now the pump was in place and the water was flowing nicely The waterfall came out way better then I thought I would and from this point on I had a nice working waterfall made of actual logs. My cousin and his at the time wife to be also loved the way it looked so much they sat it right above their guest sign in book for their wedding.

Hope you enjoyed reading and for more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

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Also you can check out my Steampunk Blog and my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks for reading.

Pirates Chest part 1

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The Pirates Chest part 1

Even though this is not very steampunk of a build I still think I am also going to post it on my steampunk blog. you can check out that blog Here!

 Starting off yet another pallet wood build I first have to rip apart a bunch of pallets. Now I started doing this with no clear idea of what I was going to build at all. I got to the point of having a pile of pallet wood laying there and nothing to build with it. So I drank a beer and stared at the pile while listening to some music. This is when a song from Alestorm came on if you don't know Alestorm is a pirate themed metal band. As soon as I herd that music come on I knew what I was going to build a big Pirates chest.

Using my new Kreg Jig I just bought earlier that day I started Jointing together the planks to make the sides of the chest. I never tried doing this before so this was not only a test for me but pretty fun at the same time.


After all the sides were jointed together I then started to build the box. This part was pretty self expiatory cut on 45 degree angles on each corner and glued and nailed together. Problems arose when I realized cutting the 45s and then jointing the planks together was not the best way to go about this. The corners didn't line up the best. In fact it was far less then I wished I almost scraped the build from the way the corners came out but I figured screw it I can fix that later. I don't have any pictures of it but the bottom of the chest is tho only wood that is not reclaimed from the pallets. The bottom is a piece of 3/4 plywood that was left over from a different project.

Now it was onto the top. now this was the part I was most excited for I love to make round objects from wood. Again like the side I toke two planks of the pallets wood and jointed them together then figured out just how much of a round top I want. I looked up a bunch of pictures of pirates chests and decided I wanted to make a a full half radius. starting flush with one side and doing a full 180 to be flush with the other.


The slats were also a bit of a pain in the but to get right. Now I was sure on the formula to figure out the right angles and I had a few beers by this point so I didn't even want to try to figure it out. I just did it by trial and error. Got the angles really close and just went with it. I cut so many slats before I had enough to build the whole top but after cutting and cutting I had enough. and put them all together to make a nice round top.

At this time the box and lid were done and now was ready to be sanded and all the trim added.

Post #2 for the pirates chest soon to come. Stay Tuned.

Hope you enjoyed reading!
As I said before any post that fits for my steampunk blog and this one will be posted to both. Even though this is not very steampunk I feel it would still fit. You can check out my Steampunk blog Here!

For more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks again for reading.

Arbor

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The Arbor

This is an older build however I never posted it to any blog. So with that being said with the start of my new carpentry blog I figured why not post it now.

 I guess I will start with a bit of a back story. My cousin James was getting married to his wonderful wife Trisha and they wanted a very country feel to their wedding. They decided to have it in their backyard and they needed an arbor. James wanted to build it out of logs so i asked him if I could build it for him. when he agreed I hiked up the mountain and pulled a bunch of ceder logs down and out of the woods with James's brother, my cousin Ryan.

I limbed all the logs and did my best to make sure there was nothing that could possibly catch on anyone's clothes then got to work. I started by making two 2' long cuts on these two pieces I cut out two notches for the legs of the arbor to fit into.  

With four 7

' long legs cut I then put together the two sides of the arbor. Sinking 6" ledgerlock screws into the legs from the top down the two sides were very very sturdy.

 After putting the two sides together I decided I would much rather put the arbor together with a mortise and tenon construction. testing out the cuts on some scrap pieces first. After the test went good I put the two scrap pieces together to make myself a nifty little ceder wooden mallet which cam in really handy later on banging the arbor pieces together without leaving hammer marks in the wood.

I then got to work on the top of the arbor. I had to take the legs I put together back off to make the cuts and put the top together much easier. I was originally going to go with five sections at 22.5 degrees angles but quickly realized I didn't have enough logs to finish if I did. the 45 degree angles made less of an arching design but still looked really good. This was pretty tricky to get all the holes to line up correctly and I'm sure that if I went with the five sections it would have been much harder.




Then I laid it on its side and reattached the legs back into the notches. I also had to make a couple of cross braces to hold the bottom of the legs in the right positions.







Standing this thing up was a complete pain in the butt. At first I thought a tall arbor would be great the taller the better to make a grand arch for my cousin and his wife to be married under. However at this point with me being 5'9" and the legs alone being 7' tall It was almost impossible to stand this up on my own but after fighting it a bit I got it up.



I looked a slight bit out of place like it was just stuck there for no reason so I wanted to tie it into the yard a bit more. I had a few pallets sitting around so I ripped them apart and made a nice rustic looking fence. Now the arbor looked like part of the yard and was ready for  anything.

It was a very beautiful wedding and I was so happy to be able to build this arbor for them.

Hope you enjoyed reading and for more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my Steampunk Blog and my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks for reading.

Pallet Desk #2

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Pallet Desk part 2

Part one of pallet desk post can be found Here!

As of this time the top of the desk is built and the pour on poly was drying. It was now time to build and attach the legs. Continuing with 100% reclaimed pallet construction I used the 2x4s that were the pallets cross beams. I took two of the 2x4s and glued them together for each leg. I wasn't to worried about any blemishes, cuts, nail holes or anything else mainly because I was really looking for a used battered look.

After all four of the legs were glued and dry I then decided I wanted them to at the very least take some stain nicely so I sanded them down so as to take off as much dirt and stains as I could. As you could see from the picture on the right the belt sander made easy work of this. most of the nail holes and other imperfection could still be see but now it was nice and clean. I cut then down to 27" long because the top was 1.5" thick save for the boarder. 

The boarded of around the top of the table was 3/4" thick and hung down 2" from the bottom of the main part of the top. Next I cut a 2" tall by 3/4" deep notch in two sides of the top of the legs.

The legs were then cut down to an overall length of 26.5". They fit very nicely onto the top and now the table sat at a very nice height of 28" tall.

I chose this height from the comfortable height I like while sitting in an office chair. I then screwed the legs onto the table straight through the face of the table boarded to keep with the rough built look.

It was then time for a coat of stain.

Keeping with the idea of wanting a nice steampunk desk for my PC I decided to use a very dark brown stain. Minwax Early American stain was a perfect color for the look I wanted.

The very last step was to router the edges. I am very partial to a colonial profile so without thinking I went with that bit. This was kind of an after thought so obviously these edges no were bare with no stain. I toke a step back and really loved the way it looked so I never restained them. the top edge I routered completely around the whole thing. However the bottom edge I started and stopped the profile 2" from each leg.

With that my new steampunk desk was done.

Built with 100% reclaimed pallet wood this desk is exactly what I wanted.

Hope you enjoyed reading!
As I said before any post that fits for my steampunk blog and this one will be posted to both You can check out my Steampunk blog Here!

For more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks again for reading.

Sewing Table

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Sewing Table Part one

 This table was built as a Christmas present for my cousins wife.
She started getting into sewing so My cousin wanted a nice work place for her.
I started the table by building the legs I ripped pine on a 45 at 3.5" wide by 30" long. Glued and nailed them together to make 30" long 4x4s that will look a hole lot better then the ones in the store.


Next I built the frame for under the table. This would be a slight bit more intricate then I first imagined in my head. Not a super intricate build however as I started building it I first was just going to make a boring box and mount the legs to the inside. When I cut the boards I then decided that I wanted to make it a little more nice looking. So instead I made a cut out in each corner three inches by three inches this way the legs would bump out one half of an inch past the frame.

Connecting the legs to the frame was and is pretty obvious. Just put the legs in place and screw them on from the backside as to not have any screw heads showing. As you can see from the picture on the left the legs fit exactly how I wanted them to all four sticking out a half inch past the frame on all four sides.
I then put three cross members in the frame for an easy way to secure the top to the frame very easy and with no blemishes on the top.

Then it was time to build the top I didn't want it to be just some boring pine top so I jointed together a pine top 7" shorted then the finish top and 7" skinnier. When this was dried and ready to work with I then picture framed the top with a 3" strip of oak and once again with a 4" strip of pine to give a nice oak inlay look to the table.

I then routered the table frame with a nice colonial profile starting it 1.5" in for one leg and stopping 1.5" from the next. On all four sides at the bottom of the frame. Next on the legs the frame was 3.5" tall so I started a quarter round profile 4" down and 4" up on all for sides of each leg. Also a Quarter round profile on the top and underside of the table top. Then onto a nice heavy sanding and a good even first coat of poly.

Hope you enjoyed reading and for more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my Steampunk Blog and my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks for reading.

Pallet desk #1

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THE PALLET DESK part1

Kicking off the first build post of the new blog with one of my favorite latest builds.

My Steampunk pallet desk.

Now because this is one of my steampunk builds I am also going to post it on my steampunk blog. you can check out that blog Here!

I first started off with a bunch of pallets Obviously. Then had to take them apart which was kind of a pain what with all the nails in those things. Every single darn nail had to be pulled out. That was a Nightmare.

After that was done I made myself a nice little work bench out of one of the pallets and some 4x4's. (pic on left) 

Then started to lay out the top. I cut a bunch of pieces to 30" as the cross plates to screw the wood to.

I went piece by piece doing my best to pick out the most random pieces as far as size and color to make it have as much of a random look as I could. When I ran out of pieces that were different I started ripping them down and rubbing them in mud to get a different look. I payed absolutely no mind to my screw patterns of if the screw sunk in all the way and on some spots tried to crack the wood. My reasoning for this was the same as before trying to make it look random and carefree. After a few hours of messing around trying to make the wood look like

( Or more so like) garbage wood thrown together I finally finished what was to be the top of the desk. (pic on left) Now onto the rest now the wood the I used for the boarder is store bought however it is the only store bought wood in the finished table. Either way I applied the boarder and lifted it 3/8" above the rest of the table to give room for the poly.

On to the poly!!!

I used a two part pour on epoxy like polyurethane. The smell was tremendous but what was worse is not thinking I never puddled any of the holes in the wood so a lot of it drained right throw the table. That was one expensive learning experience. but the first coat still came out looking pretty good. Problem was it only gave me a 1/16" of coverage crossed the whole  table.

 After a day of drying I used some clear silicone caulk to fill most of the holes and cracks around the table and applied a second coat of poly.
the second coat filled much more of the table up and shined it like a brand new penny. the table was starting to come together just as I wanted it to. And for the look of it it was perfect the poly really brought out the different hues  of the wood much more then anything thing else I did to it.
At this point I was very very happy.

Hope you enjoyed reading and for more pictures and projects you can check out my website 

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my Steampunk Blog and my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks for reading.