If you can picture one of
these in your backyard, then stick around. I'm going to show you
how you can build one. Macrocarpa is a fantastic
timber to use outdoors. Doesn't need any timber
preservatives whatsoever. Now on this build,
it's very, very simple. There's only three steps. Building the feet,
the legs, and the top. I'm going to crack on, and show
you how you build your legs. Now here's one of
my legs I've already pre-cut using a circular saw. I've chopped that 400 mil long. And that's 200, which is the
standard width of a sleeper. Now you're just going
to need two of these. Now here's a foot
I made earlier. The dimensions of
it are 100 mil wide, 160 millimeters long by
50 millimeters thick. I'm now going to show you
how to make one of these. I've cut my mackey
to 50 mil thick, and I'm going to get a couple
of feet out of this length. Right, I've set my
square to 20 millimeters. Now I'm going to rule a line
on the edge of my timber. Now I'm going to follow that
line with my circular saw, and that's going to give
us our beveled edge. Cut the bevels on the side. Set your saw to 45 degree. [SAW CUTTING] Mark your timber to
160 millimeters long. I'm cutting it on the drop saw,
but you can use a circular saw. Set the drop saw to 45 degrees
and cut your side bearings. Right, I've pre-cut all my feet. I've just got to sit
that underneath my leg. And I'm going to
create a little, 10 mil detail from the edge of our
timber out to our bevel. Using my pencil, I'm just
going to mark around there. Right, let's drill
some holes in our feet. I'm just going to mark a center
line in between our lines. I'll be coming in about 20
millimeters from each edge. Using a 5 mill drill bit,
let's just punch that through. Right, lets' take this and
screw this to our legs. Let's line our pencil marks
up with the outside edge of our timber. Now using our holes we've
already pre-drilled, let's just punch that
all the way through. Now just repeat the process
for the other three legs. OK, all our sanding is finished. It's time to dress up
the edge of our timber. Now, I'm going to use a router. But you can use a hand plane,
and then give it a light sand. Now it's time to fix
our seat to our legs. Now I've set our leg just to
the back of our bevel, which is around about 5
millimeters, and I'm going to mark 200
millimeters in. That is going to be to
the center of our leg. Transfer that mark to
the top, and just really lightly put a pencil
mark across there. And we're going to come in 50
millimeters from each edge. Time to drill our holes. I'm using a
32-millimeter spade bit, this is going to allow plenty
of room for my nut and washer to get in there. Right, I've gone down
about 10 millimeters. That's just enough
for the thickness of the nut and the
washer to sit flush with the top of the surface. I'm using an 8-millimeter
auger drill bit to drill all the way through
the seat into the leg. Right, now what we've
gotta do is finish off with our coatscrew and washer. Let's get that in there. Give it a wee little tickle
up with the old [WHISTLE].. And there we have it,
a bench seat, Easy As.
