[Music] one more just one more project. you'd think after 5 years I'd know that
it goes the other way around. all right. just one more promise! okay this is the pallet the CNC came
on it does have very thin slats, so I'm going to try and do this with one pallet, because I don't
really want to go hunting, not that it's hard if you want Pine, there is thousands of them. The
top side actually has these 25 mm slats so see how we go see how far we can stretch this bad boy,
I going to bust down in here because I don't want to get sun burnt. ok probably wasn't going to
get sunburnt in the 2 minutes that this takes all righty uh quick update the table saw, the
new table saw is happening there was a few little holdups somewhere in the supply chain so
stay tuned. so after emotionally farewelling my little yellow friend here my wife asked me if we
should simply buy a small bench for her Studio, it was about 180 bucks and I was like hell no,
I have 4 days off, I have a pine pallet and I can whip up something suitable and also get to
make a video. the plan is to keep this as simple as possible and also chat about tools along the
way tools to get started tools that I recommend you get okay just quickly I'll show you my latest
straightening jig which I love the most uh these ratchet clamps they're on bangood just search
ratchet clamp bangood they're very good. okay it relies on the Dove tail in your straightening
jig now I made my Dove tail didn't have a dove tail bit just cut some angles with your circular
saw table saw and then glue the top piece to the bottom piece then you have your dove tail action,
these are the fastest way of straightening pallet wood are way better than toggles way better than
the screw Downs super fast the beauty is I don't need to do it in this video they straight enough
to go through the table saw safely. sorry so why these are much better and faster is because most
of the time pallet wood is always of varying thicknesses the ratchet clamp plunges down onto
the Rando thickness the quickest you'll find that the toggles although good, they require a lot
of fluffing around when you have the different thicknesses and to get the right tension and the
screw down hold down clamps are slow for obvious reasons but saying that this particular design is
great for putting a straight edge on a slab now what I'll probably do is make a new one of these
but I'll still set it up with the dovetails so the ratchet clamp will do both things all sorts
of bits and pieces tapering all the things these I can use them somewhere else I recently went on
the Wood Biz Podcast and the topic came up about what tools you would start out with if you could
go back and start again so I wanted to use this video just to highlight a few on the podcast my
advice was to just get started, and then find a way to get a table saw into your Workshop as soon
as possible. do what you have to do to make that happen it is simply the most versatile tool that
you can have in your shed and it is an absolute Workhorse. I've picked a width of about 35 to
40 mm this gives me two boards per pallet slack and I'm then going to resaw the boards into
two different thicknesses because I have both Thin and Thick palletwood boards I'm trying
to maximise what I have from this particular palletwood this lamination technique will let
me create longer than a standard pallet board slab stick with me all right thanks
for sticking with me I have whipped up a quick clamping board and all I'm
doing is lining up the lengths of the same thickness board to create a longer slab
as long as the boards are the same thickness on each run it will all clamp together
nicely and it will be super strong of course you may have noticed I have not cleaned
off every face of every single board the goal is to have every face as clean and flat as
possible but that may not always be perfect or possible with the tools that you have what
we want is to avoid any moisture getting into those voids between the boards that is where
the problems and separations will occur so stick with me I have my reasons but in short if
your piece of furniture is out of the weather and it's got some sort of protection on it it is
going to be fine especially this one laminated interlocked bit of tight ass advice here don't go
too tight ass on the grease proof paper this one's about two bucks and it is not greas prooof enough
spend the four bucks and save yourself a heap of grief. I'm going to turn the fan off $2. second tool I recommend getting a as early
on as possible is a router again super duper versatile and great for flattening pallet
wood slabs and other types of wood slabs now I have well and truly done my apprenticeship
flattening slabs with a router so I'm going to run these slabs through the thicknesser
get them nice and flat both sides and move on I have these pine legs from Mk 1 dining
table I made and I'm going to use those as the timber is kind of sentimental to me
and my wife so this was a perfect project to use those up so with that in mind this
is probably a two pallet project I'm not sure I understand again there are plenty
of pine pets out there nobody is arguing that third tool is a belt sander with 40 grit
sandpaper this is going to remove material very fast and also clean off your slabs quickly
after you have flattened them with a router you will use this Beast Peeps and again if you
listen to that podcast you'll hear Dean talk about the belt sander professional
furniture maker still smashes out the belty again the router is very versatile at cutting circles and segments of
circles and in this case half circles [Music] ideally getting through the thickness of the
slab with the rou a bit would be great but if you can't you can just bust out a jigsaw only
use a jigsaw a handful of times per year so a cheap and or nasty will do me just fine
for those occasions DIY entry level tools are perfectly fine to just get started but
also just have lying around for when you do need that Rando tool here and there you can
beat the snot out of them if they break I'm sure they're going to be under warranty
if you are picking up what I'm putting [Music] down I'm going to use the table saw for
most of the frame which again is to show that if you make a few Jigs and sleds you can cut heaps of different joints and avoid
using a handsaw and a mallet and chisel again I did make a rookie error here I
use my stock to set the size of the cut to make forgot about the thickness of the
blade so therefore that joint was out by the thickness of the blade it is also the
reason I decided to do one entire leg and Corner first in case I made any blunders and
it just let me iron out the process for the rest [Music] [Music] next tool you'll probably want to get and
you probably had it well before your table saw is a MIT saw again very versatile for
making different types of cuts with ease and this saw will be another work of course for
smashing palletwood down to varying sizes and [Music] [Music] shapes I am trying something a little bit different
with these particular corner joints simple but strong they are not exactly aesthetically pleasing
just yet so stick with me all righty thanks for sticking with me so I'm going to put a round over
on all the edges to try and unify this Frame and improve the overall look keep in mind this is just
a little bench to hold a few random asses here and [Music] there [Music] now before I get to the beauty shots I want
to quickly talk about the biggest issue I have right now in the shed space space the CNC
has a very awkward footprint to fit anywhere in my shed and simply something has to go so I
don't go insane trying to operate in this small space so after about two copies of consideration
I have decided to give the mitur the ass and dedicate that space to the CNC if there is one
thing that woodworking has taught me it is that there is many ways to get the same job done I had
no regrets selling the bansil I had no regrets selling the bansel and I already know I'll have no
regrets saying goodbye to the monitor I have many other spinning blade options to get the job done
and I'm actually looking forward to the challenge of trying to to figure things out without the
Mota did not think I would be uh hanging out of this hole again for a while it may even let me
get to come up with a few new jigs which I'll get to show off here anyway okay just one more
thing I have created a second Channel and it is called damade unofficial and it is where I am
considering dropping some other videos that are a bit more talkie talkie maybe some more Deep dive
how-tos as well as other Rando bits and pieces that I want to show off around here in the shed
uh the link is down below if you are interested and that will help me sort of gauge of how much
time and energy I put into that channel and it'll obviously give me a good idea of how many of
you want to see more of my backyard Bandit [Music] activities [Music] let's call this semi semi- temporary
let's have a quick look outside what we're doing here so there's the original
white board that is just providing some waterproofing so my other dodgy roof water
falls onto this dodgy roof and we're good to go so a simple Pine palette whitewashed
and clear coated this style of finish was one of my most popular in my earlier
palletwood Furniture projects and it still is especially for hallway tables the
frames and pine is the most accessible when it comes to pallets it is easy on your
tools and blades and it is perfect to learn a few skills before you start laying down your
cash buying potential more more cooler harder Timbers or before you start using those
really nice hardwood palettes that you are going to find because you're just going
to keep looking okay catch you [Music] later
