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To save money, we found this framed mirror at a thrift shop for a lot less money than it would cost us just to buy the glass separately.
It's a nice looking mirror and its got beveled edges on it too.
I wanted to show you this attachment on my rip fence.
It's just a piece of plywood and it's called a sacrificial fence,
and that's because you can run it real close to your blade and the blade can cut into it
without doing damage to your actual fence
like you can see I have done here in the past.
A lot of rip fences will have these holes in them,
and that's what they're for, is screwing a board on to use as a sacraficial fence.
A viewer to the show sent me these clamps awhile
back and they're specially made just for this.
And so, they just dropped down into these holes and then I can move it wherever I need it
but the second reason I use this is for cutting really thin material.
When my rip fence is locked into place
there's actually a gap in there
and so a real thin wood or in this case the aluminum
can just slide right under it so adding a board gives it kind of a zero clearance.
I just did a test fit on the mirror and it doesn't quite fit into this frame this
direction so I need to shave a little bit off down here.
I'm using a cabinet scraper to plane this down a little bit.
I'll give that a test fit.
Oh, perfect.
Thank you all for your questions and comments on the Mirror Project.
There were three commonly asked questions, that seemed to come up again and again.
A lot of you wanted to know what kind of saw blade do I used to cut
aluminum and does it dull the saw blade?
I use a combination blade to cut just
about everything on my table saw. You could use a fine tooth or laminate cutting
blade and you would probably get smoother edges on the aluminum.
I don't think it really matters that much because when you cut aluminum it leaves a sharp edge you're
gonna have to sand down anyway I don't know if cutting aluminum is going to
dull your saw blade any quicker than cutting wood maybe a little bit but you
know cutting anything on a saw blade is going to dull it and if you want to cut
aluminum I can't imagine really a simpler solution than just using your woodworking tools.
Is there a limit? Can you cut thick aluminum?
the best thing about aluminum is that it's lightweight, I don't think I've ever seen any really
thick chunks of aluminum. Structural pieces of aluminum like table legs are strong
because they're hollow, so the actual aluminum is still thin. The second most common
comment and hotly debated topic in the video had to do with the spelling and
pronunciation of aluminum. Believe it or not, there are still variations in the
English language around the world. In North America, where I am, aluminum is
most commonly pronounced and spelled "Aluminum". In Great Britain and other
places it might be spelled and pronounced "Aluminium". So remember if
you're on an aeroplane and the speciality of the passenger sitting next
to you seems to be correcting grammar, he might just be an ***.
The third most commonly asked question I got on the video was what in the world is this hand stapler thingy?
This is called a point driver. A viewer to the show sent this to me a while back
because I was holding artwork into a picture frame just with nails and he
said "This is a much easier way." and it is, I love it. It's different than a staple gun
because it doesn't shoot down it shoots forward.
These are the points it shoots out
they come in a flexible or rigid variety,
and they look kind of like a strip of thick brad nails.
You load them in the front.
This *** on the back controls how
deep you want the points to shoot into the wood.
This is a good question about
how much money we're gonna save by remodeling the bathroom ourselves and
how did we come up with the design?
Of course we're gonna save a lot of money by doing this ourselves.
I'm not really sure how much that's gonna be because most of the cost
of a remodel like that has to do with labor costs. The materials and the
fixtures that we've chose for the bathroom are relatively inexpensive.
As for the design it's not something we really sat down and discussed all of our
options and planned it all the way through what we do is we try to pick out
a couple elements that we like and try to repeat those throughout the whole
process in this case it was squares. There's squares on the mirror, the light
fixture above the mirror, and the handles on the vanity are square, and the faucet
has kind of a square look.
Then the other element we're trying to keep consistent
is the color palette.
Typically, we like to use of bright colors throughout our house but we thought with
this bathroom remodel it would be different and interesting to use earth
tones, so with the painted surfaces and other elements we're trying to keep with
tans and dark browns.
The brightness will come from the one beadboard wall that is painted white.
And then the third element we're kind of repeating is a brushed nickel look. The light fixtures
brushed nickel in it, and of course the aluminum mirror frame, but really most of this
is just making it up as we go along and making sure that the next thing we do
fits within that scheme.