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WARNING!
Power tools, including drills and saws, are extremely dangerous
and can cause injury or death! Use at your own risk!
I want to show you how to make a palette table.
This is a palette table that will hold two palettes —
one flat, and one at a slight angle —
and it's actually very easy and inexpensive to make.
The first step is to cut some lengths of 2x4.
A "two-by-four" is... this is a 2x4,
which is actually only 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches.
But, this is roughly— it doesn't have to be exactly this size.
The important thing is going to be the length that we cut it,
so I'm going to do that now.
The pieces that we're going to cut—
and you can look at this graphic on your screen,
so I'm going to go and cut those now, and then we'll go from there.
You can use a hand saw or a miter saw,
whichever you have.
So, I've cut all this wood.
Two 11-inches, two 12-inches,
four 14-inches, and two 22-inches.
Now we're going to drill them,
and each one is going to be drilled
in a slightly different pattern, so let me show you.
The 11 inches, we're going to put those...
What I'm going to do is take a scrap piece of 2x4
to help show me where to put the screws.
So that one, on the 11 inch, we're going to lay it
not like that, but like that,
and we're going to draw a line
on both sides.
That's just to help us see where the screws should go.
And, on the 11 inches, we're going to put
a hole there, a hole there,
like that.
There, that's the 11 inches.
The 12 inches we're going to do a little different.
We're going to actually use two pieces of scrap wood.
We're going to lay one like that — and I'll just do these at the same time —
and then the other one.
So, first that one, then that one,
and we'll draw a line
so that we can see where those screws go.
And this one, we're going to put a hole there,
a hole there, a hole there, and a hole there.
OK. So, that's the 12s.
So, then on these 14-inch ones,
we'll lay these all out, like that.
Take another 2x4 and lay it right along the edge there,
we can draw all of these at the same time.
Draw a line, and then on the ends of all of these
we're going to drill two holes at a diagonal, like so.
And then, the 22-inch ones...
Actually we don't need to drill the 22-inch.
So that's it. So now let's drill a hole
wherever we have the marks.
This is important: the drill bit absolutely
has to be slightly bigger, the same size —
or really slightly bigger — than the screw,
whatever screw you decide to use.
And this is a 2.5-inch screw, which as you can see,
will go through the 2x4 and bite into the other one.
It's just the right length.
So, the key here is to have whatever drill bit you use,
it needs to be bigger than the screw,
when we screw the two pieces together.
Let me go and drill all of these now.
So, now that all the wood is cut and drilled,
we're ready to put it together.
There's one more step before we start screwing it together.
And this is an optional step, you don't have to do this.
It's just a way of making your palette table a little prettier.
All the 14-inches, and all the 12-inches,
what we can do is put a mark halfway across the 2x4,
and this isn't critical, so you can just do it by eye,
and then take a 45-degree measurement.
You can fold a corner of a piece of paper down
to create a 45-degree angle, if you need to.
And then all I'm going to do is just draw a line, like that.
Then, I'm going to cut that corner off,
and I'll do that to all the 14-inches, and all the 12-inches.
And do it on the opposite end of where the holes are drilled.
So, we're going to cut it down on this end.
Now that I've cut the corners off of those six pieces,
the four 14-inch and the two 12-inch,
we're ready to start putting this together.
The first thing is to grab a 22-inch and a 12-inch.
And the 12-inch is going to screw on in such a way
that the angle is up, here.
In other words, not like that, but like this.
The other thing is, we want it to hang off the end that much.
In other words, you don't want it flush, like that.
You want it to hang off the width of
a 2x4 on edge, like that.
And right exactly flush with the bottom.
So, this should be flush,
this should hang over the thickness of one 2x4,
like I have it,
and make it as square as you can.
Check it, and then take a single screw
and using a hand screwdriver, or a power screwdriver,
screw in a single screw.
Now it should be able to twist a little bit on that screw.
Before we put the second one in,
this is where it's really important to check your angle.
Put that there, and then rotate this so that it's flush.
So this is flush.
Flush, it's perfectly right, and that's important.
So, now that that's there,
you want to really hold this in place tight.
If you want to really make sure, you can put a clamp on it.
Now we're going to take the next screw
and go right in, like that.
And there it is.
If you really want to make it super strong,
you can put some wood glue in between there before you tighten it down.
Then we're going to take the second 22-inch
and put another 12-inch on it.
And it's the same thing, but we need to make note
of which side we're doing it on.
When we put this all together,
it's going to look like...
This is the 11-inch.
The 11-inch goes there,
and then the other 12-inch is going to go on the outside, here.
The reason I'm putting this all together
is so that I don't screw this on the wrong side, like that.
It needs to be there, like that.
So, we'll take that one,
set this aside,
and now we're going to screw this one on
the same way we did the other one.
Make sure that it's the right width there.
Put in a single screw.
Check the angle.
Make sure it's exactly right
and put in the second screw.
Now we have those two put together.
And they're going to go like so.
The next step is to put the 11-inch on the back here.
On a perfectly flat surface,
which it needs to be on,
you can put it on your garage floor, or whatever you need to do.
I'm going to first drill a single screw.
Again, I want to make sure it's a right angle
Check it, and then drill the second one.
Same thing on the other side.
Now we have the base built,
and we're just going to attach the arms on up at the top.
So, we'll first attach one arm,
and this is going to be a level arm —
not that one, but this one first —
and we're going to make sure that this is slightly above...
that this is slightly above this.
We don't want it perfectly level,
because we don't want this touching your palette.
We want to make sure that this arm
is slightly higher than this.
Just a little bit.
I'll put this single screw in first,
making sure it's above right there.
Then I'll take my right angle
and make sure that it's exactly 90 degrees.
Just bump it a little bit until it is.
Then, put in the second screw.
Attach the next arm.
Again, making sure that this is above this slightly.
Put in a single screw first.
Now, instead of making this square to this,
instead of worrying about that, we don't want to do that.
We want to just make sure that it's level with the other one.
So, I'm going to pick up a glass palette,
and just set it on there, like that.
And bump this one
so that it's perfectly flat.
The best we can do.
Alright, now that I've checked that,
I'll put in a second screw.
That's nice and flat.
The only thing left is to attach the other arms.
So, I'll take another 14-inch
and here, what we want to do is, we want to...
This should come over to the same spot
where this one is, but we just want to tilt it.
And then you want to drop it down,
so that this crosses about halfway.
Get the first screw in,
tilt it about that much,
and put the second screw in.
Do the same thing with the next arm.
The last arm.
We're going to start with one screw,
and then we'll check the level again with the other arm.
Take your glass palette again, lay it on there.
Make sure that you're not onto this lower surface, like that.
You want to make sure you're completely up
on the upper arms,
without touching this, or this, because that will throw you.
Just slide it up a little bit,
and then adjust this.
Really take your time on making sure these are level
before you put that last screw in.
Bump it until it is just right.
There you have it.
The only thing left to do
is to put some feet on the bottom.
The way I'm going to do that — I've already drilled these — but I just took a long stick like this.
Don't cut out your little square blocks ahead of time.
Take a long stick like this, drill your holes,
and then cut them off.
Because it's really hard to drill
into a little piece of wood like that.
So, once I cut these off,
then I'll just take a single screw
and put a foot,
one here, one here,
one here, and one here.
You can figure out how to do that on your own.
I don't need to show you that.
But that's about it.
The only thing left to do,
is if after you've screwed everything in,
if you find that this is not perfectly flat — looks like this one is, and it looks like this one is —
but sometimes even after you've checked and checked,
when you put in that last screw it will tilt just a little bit.
So if it is not level — like this one has the slightest bit of space there —
you just take a little piece of wood,
just a small little piece of wood, very thin,
and just glue it on there,
and then sand it down until you get this thing perfectly level.
And that's it.
There you have it.
Palette table.