DIY Sliding Barn Door Bar | Media Console Table

hey guys I'm Chris welcome to a glimpse inside today we're going to take a look at how we made a sliding barn door bar holding not one but two refrigerators the process goes from here to there to here the final exists and the process was awesome and the result stay tuned check it out [Music] this project started out like no other pen-and-paper get an idea go from there there's nothing real glamorous about what I'm doing here I'm simply just milling down my sheet good getting a three-quarter inch Baltic birch plywood to the Lynx and whips I need to build this cabinet at this point I'm tacking it in place making sure it's kept square now go ahead and tack on the middle piece and I come back and reinforce every joint with glue and screws these two pieces are clamps together and cut at the crosscut sled they're going to be the top of the cabinet they're going to be at the front in the back and they're going to tie this whole thing together I rip the piece of one quarter inch plywood down it's going to be the back of the unit it's cut the rough dimension and attack it in with some three-quarter inch Brad moving it down on the floor to make it easier to manage our Celeste trim it off with my flush trim bit on my router and that essentially is one unit but I had to multiply it by two now that both units are roughly made I start trimming up my maple that I'm going to use to bebe trim that's going to cover up all those plywood edges after running each piece on a pass on the jointer getting one edge perfectly ninety degrees I have a nice edge to rip up against that table saw fence and to cut this trim the final side [Music] I carefully measure and take these pieces to the miter saw to trim it the way I want to say something real quick I make pieces of furniture quite awesome for people I have client work I probably do a project once a month I don't use any of these fancy woodworking joinery techniques I don't use Morrison tenon I don't use any Festool Domino's I don't even use biscuit joints are you butt joint Brad nails and glue and by the time this is all done anyone who's going to notice that is going to be somebody who's in the woodworking field who's going to say hey that wasn't used with fancy techniques and that's okay at this point I'm putting both pieces together and I am so relieved that they fit together perfectly here you can see I'm merging your pieces for the top but I want to speak on what I just mentioned earlier these pieces that I built for people are no way in any shape week or less quality because I don't use fancy little rocking techniques the idea here and the purpose of this channel is to show people that woodworking is not as intimidating as you might think the point of that being that you can make furniture with simple tools simple techniques that will last a lifetime okay both pieces look good the top looks good but I don't have a clamp large enough that's going to squeeze these pieces together so here's a little trick you drilled four screws one in each corner and then you take clamp after putting glue in that seam and you clamp those screws together giving this pieces a very nice tight fit after that I'm able to put my other structure in which is going to essentially hold those two pieces together a little blue about eight or nine screws you're good to go now here's the first time I get to see it taking shape I'll be cutting the top pieces what I've done here is I think of some free quarter-inch Baltic birch plywood and I'm layering it out in a brick pattern once I like it I go ahead and make all the pieces I need laying each piece out staggering as I go all the way down to the end I'm digging [Music] well now that I have the top all roughed out and the ideas in place I'm going to go ahead and trim out the sides of this here I take a piece of that hard maple and I'm going to continue to face frame around this structure at a 45 degree angle it kind of softens the bend if you will as the line goes around the edge giving it a nice reveal a similar piece of maple cut the length to join it all together at the back of the piece okay it's time for some sanding here I take some 120 grit sandpaper however I'm not just standing to make things smooth and what I'm doing is I'm putting a slight chance firaon the edges of all of these pieces that are going to be on the top and what's that going to do well it's going to give each piece a little more of a reveal giving it kind of a more organic look I'm not going to lie this process took me a little bit of time but in the end it's totally worth it it just gives it a much more polished professional look so I gave the client two options here I could kind of flow to stress the pieces on the top or I could leave them just plain they opted to go for the plane look although it does have some rustic Flair because each piece is going to be Brad nailed in at the four corners giving that a little bit of rustic mr. to the whole thing I attached this with inch-and-a-half sprats I'm not using any glue here they plan on putting some floating shelves above this who knows if something falls off those shelves and damages one of these pieces you just pop it out replace it wouldn't be a big deal with the flush trim that still attached to the router I go ahead and make a pass making sure the top of the substrate or plus with each other [Music] I flipped this beast of the top over making sure I can go ahead and plus turn these edges giving me a nice flush surface around the whole time well I got to do a slight design modification here but I think it's going to be for the best I had to raise the top up off of it about two and a half inches when the track or the barn door track came in from Amazon it was a little different than the description it said so what I had to do was I had to go ahead and raise that top up because as I cut this metal down I realized that this piece of metal had to be mounted in the face frame that I made out of that maple by doing so the hinges that go over the top would be above the surface of the bar that being said this modification gave what looks to be a slight reveal underneath the top well here's the sliding door track being mounted on those face frames and you can see where the hinges would rest the bar had to be a little higher than that so I think the modification is going to work out well after making some cuts and getting these measurements just right I'm finally finishing putting on the track putting a few squeeze clamps they're going to give it somewhere to rest definitely a good idea now I can focus my attention on making the trim for the bar top again just glue and Brad nails is all that's needed anytime I install a piece of trim that's over ten feet long like this I go ahead and clamp it in place as I start to work my way down Brad nailing it in place good long day started about 7:30 this morning it's now one o'clock in the morning raw lumber into this it's time to go to bed we'll finish it tomorrow all right back at it the next day I start my morning off by making these barn doors now go ahead and cut a few pieces to hide those plywood edges just glue it into place packing them in place with some Brad's as well and there's the simple structure that is the door of course time stood as I trim this one-inch thick hard maple into one and three-quarter inch strips and go ahead and tack it in place just using simple butt joint trimming them as I go you can always cut a little bit more off but you can't always add wood too so be careful in your measurements in trial and error is the way to go [Music] now here comes the process of carefully measuring to give it that nice X look I'm actually practicing this on a piece of Baltic birch plywood first before I use my more expensive maple it's just a quick little thing to do saves a little bit of time just in case I'm making mistake I haven't cut the pieces of expensive wood down to the link that I can't once everything is good to go I go ahead and transfer those marks to the maple cutting industry so they fit perfectly [Music] [Music] okay at this point I'll take it to blue tape that I'm asking temporarily one of those brackets to the rail I'm making myself a cichlid here that's going to give me a guide of exactly where to put the door locks and the holes that are going to reference into the door through those hinges that piece of blue tape at the top of this template is the door lock I'll explain how those work a little bit later in the video with the template still attached to the door rollers to go ahead and mark out my holes on the drill I decided before I tax these rollers to the door I might as well stand the door up to get a nice smooth feel to it a drill that holds out according to the guide and I go ahead and attach the scrap piece to the back of the door this prevents any blowout or tear out once the Brad point days that are used through the template into the door now I've got a little salt in here there's a little bit of a gap there that I need to take off with a fortunate bit so I go ahead and put a quarter inch piece of plywood flush trims up to it as you can see here it helps the drill bit drilling of the material once that's removed I'm good to go and the nut fix right in place as I start to mount these rollers to the door realize that the carriage boat for too long so instead of trimming the carriage bolts off I've taken some washers and made the holes in a little bit bigger in diameter so the washers are basically a spacer underneath giving the carriage bolt a little less room for these cap nuts because on property you got to be careful not to strip these out some go ahead and tighten them down by hand [Music] okay all this work for this moment right I have a test of the JIT here we go yeah yeah well maybe I'm a little too excited of that word I don't think so so the door swings freely from left to right over all four channels I've taken this piece of maple and I've gone ahead and cut it off at a 45 degree at both ends and I'm going to attach this to the face frame right there in the middle especially being a stop block and keep one door from not damaging into the other okay to attach the stop block I'll put some wood glue in the middle and I put some CA glue from two feet in in the corner I go ahead and spray it with activator the CA glue in works with clamps as the wood glue dries and this bond is going to be plenty strong keep this top box in place okay now it's the time to install these door locks they're hand tightened in so that neither swings freely once the doors installed they're facing outwards once they're in you face them inwards and it creates a locks where the door can't be pulled off I got to say at this point I'm feeling pretty good the project's coming along nicely everything seems to be working very well and now it's time to put on the coat of stain nothing glamorous here they want a dark kind of espresso color stain I believe it's called Kona and I apply it with a rag at first and then I use a chip brush to kind of get inside all the nooks and crannies once that stain sets up for about five or ten minutes I come back with a clean rag and wipe off the excess there's no difference here the process is the same I take a rag and I flood the surface of the topic but then since each edge is chamfered I take its brush and I go in between those layers making sure that that stain gets permeated through I wait about 10 minutes and I come back with a dry rag and I wipe the surface clean here's the first real look and what the finished product is going to be on this bark house as far as I'm concerned coating these inside cabinets and staying with nothing that needed to be filmed trillium comes in bed and calculus thing tomorrow let's go with the same now been dried for a few hours time to put the first coat of polyurethane on this is a very same than a music per customer request and it has a matte finish the same process is applied to the doors as well these are a little bit more tricky though you got to get in those nooks and crannies shouldn't be a big deal though in between coats of urethane I go ahead and take what they call a scotch-brite in between coats pads and believe it or not that's its name and then I go ahead and apply the next coat of polyurethane now if you give the inside of the cabinet some protection I use a very thin mat roller and apply a very thin coat of polyurethane a couple of times on the inside once I'm finished with that I used in furniture paste wax on the top I go ahead and rub that in for a little bit once it comes to a little bit of a haze I don't know maybe five or ten minute wait I take a buffing pad on my orbital sander and buff it clean let's talk about details here for a second upon removing the blue tape that was protecting is another from the same I notice some wood grain that was coming through you have to take care of these details guys especially if someone's paying you to make this these kinds of details being taken care of or something they're not going to notice and it keeps them giving you good word of mouth in the future well here's the last part of the construction process I'll take two panels or cut them to size I go ahead and edge band them with a piece of maple to give it that same look these are going to be the shelves are going to be installed on either side of the refrigerator my client one of the shelves to be on either side of the way the fridges are going to be kept and then one of those shelves to be modular so I use my shelf pin jig to do this I put simply put a shelf pin in the middle of the cabinet and then one above and below in case they need to adjust them a little bit here they're putting those shelf pins in looks like everything's going to line up just right that shelf in jig man that thing takes care of accuracy like nobody sees again this is a minor detail but make sure you stay in those freshly drilled holes if you don't they'll be hugely notice if you do no one will notice a thing sometimes the best work goes unnoticed okay moving on to setting the shelves there is no difference here I basically flood the surface and then take a clean rag after about ten minutes and wipe it clean [Music] we're here to look at the top [Music] hey you Oh okay goodnight work goodbye right man I love spending time with her all right a quick buffing out of these shelves and we're good to go well here it is it is following the challenge now as you get this 30 miles away 500 oh ha ha all right let's go well this was an absolute blast to build it's huge it's absolutely massive my clients I want to thank them Ronnie seven thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to make this for you other we guys get it done a lot of years out of it thank you guys for watching as well if you liked it hit that like button for me leave me a comment letting a few things let me know if you want start to do one for yourself hey guys thank you for watching I'm feeling necklace back [Music]

Channel: A Glimpse Inside

Views: 303,931

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Keywords: wood, woodworking, woodshop, new, modern, rustic, barndoor, sliding barn door, old, vevo, taylorswift, make, create, mill, work, top10, top 10, wow, insperation, metal, metalwork, metal work

Id: hb_XFp3eRo0

Length: 18min 55sec (1135 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 06 2017