End Tables #1

Post 21

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 Carpentry blog it will posted on both. you can find that blog here. ( Carpentry Blog )

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 carpentry blog and this one will be posted to both You can check out my Carpentry 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.

Pirates Chest #1

Post 20

The Pirates Chest part 1

 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 carpentry blog and this one will be posted to both You can check out my Carpentry 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.

Pallet Desk part 2

Post 19

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 carpentry blog and this one will be posted to both You can check out my Carpentry 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.

GARBAGE LAMP!!!

POST 18

The Garbage lamp.

       For the setup of this post I would like to start off by saying I have a friend who makes a living buying and selling at swap meets and flea markets. He deals will darn near anything but he always has antiques. In the travels from place to place some of his product gets broke. when this happens he normally tosses it to the side of his shed till he had a day that he loads up a ton of crap broken and screwed up pieces and brings it to the dump.

        Well one day boys and girls when I
was over his house I became somewhat bored and said to myself. "Self let's see if we can fix any of this crap!" So I started to rummage through the junk. I found a bunch of cool things but most of it was either to broke to be fixed or just not worth the time. But then I found this thing. It's a boom lamp from a drafting table. now it looks like junk and it is but for some reason I love these
boom lamps

So naturally I found something I like so I ripped it apart. I painted

the boom with some strange metallic spray paint that had a really weird texture when it dried. as for the pieces that held the arm together (on right) I painted them with the same paint then applied a coat of gold Rub-N-Buff.

 As for the lamp shroud I sprayed it down with again that same dark gray metallic spray paint but instead of the gold Rub-N-Buff I used an antique copper color. It came out looking very nice so I wanted to put a clear coat over it, and that's when things got really weird. I'm not sure if the clear coat I used was just really old or if it had some sort of reaction with the first paint or possible the Rub-N-Buff but when I spray it on the whole lamp shroud look as if it was beginning to crack. 

And it looks AWESOME!!!! one of the best mistakes I've made in a long time.

Now it was time for a base Seeing how the lamp was originally attached to a table it had no way of standing on it's own any longer.

I began to rummage through the pile of junk again and found these beat up old tables every one of them had some thing wrong with it. I took them apart and made on nice one out of all the others so my friend could sell at least one of them but then had a pile of scrap from the others I crammed the lamp into the top of one of the pieces and kapow had a new base.

I repainted one of the broken table tops with the same spray paint again and mounted the to the bottom for added stability and just like that my Garbage lamp was done.

Now I really love this lamp. I have had so many people come to my house and go "WOW!!! That's one ugly lamp dude!!"

And I say "Yeah I know!" with a big smile on my face because the best part is that I made it from garbage with no intentions on making anything useful that day and I use this lamp every single night. So you might not like it but I love it. It really goes to show you one mas trash can truly be another mans treasure.

 I also made a video for my YouTube about this lamp.

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

AmazingJayman.com

Also you can check out my Carpentry blog and my terrible Video Game Blog

or my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/AmazingJayman 

Have a great day and thanks for reading.