DIY Pour Over Coffee Station

Hello everyone, my name is Mike Montgomery and today I'm going to show you how to build a metal

coffee

station

out of wood, but don't worry, this is a surprisingly easy DIY and you don't need any metalworking experience, so let's go. Go ahead and start with modern construction, all the metal used in this project is 1/8 inch steel plate and I had some left over from a previous project plate. Still, it's amazing because you can get surprisingly straight and clean cuts using an angled cutting wheel. grinder after measuring the proper length I cut it along the line, the trick to getting a good straight cut is to do it in passes, the first is to simply set the line and make a groove and then from there it will go back and forth until you completely cut your piece, then I used the 1 by 6 piece of red oak that I will make all my wood pieces out of to mark a line so I can cut my plates to the correct width I want. to match that piece of wood and if you're curious, I simply clamped my piece of steel plate to a piece of 3/4 inch plywood as a cutting mat.

Here I am marking the places where I will cut a slot. I went through the middle of the metal with the angle grinder so I could bend it to 90 degrees more easily. Once I cut my slots to the correct depth, I set my angle grinder to 45 degrees and created a bevel on each side of that slot. This will help everything fold cleanly and look like a miter joint on wood. This folding template was based on one from my podcast partner Ben Yelena. Modern Creator Podcast links in description. Basically I just clamped a piece of angle iron inside the slot and then I was able to bend the metal into place keeping it flat because I cut that slot.

Enough material was removed to make it fairly easy to fold by hand, which was very convenient if you need a little extra help, you can hold some twos. four on the face of the metal and that would give it a bit of mechanical advantage and leverage. After finding the center point of the metal, I used a 1 inch and 5/8 inch hole saw to create a hole that the dropper will pass through in retrospect. I probably should have done this step before bending the metal that way it would be easier to hold everything together. The hole saw can really bite and pull on the arm, so you want to make sure the workpiece is tight. kept as safe as possible and to break up the edges and clean everything I sanded all the corners, used 150 grit sandpaper and finally to clean everything I used acetone to remove the oil in the grease and moved on to the wooden part of this.

In the project I got that 1 by 6 piece of red oak I mentioned before and cut it to the inside dimension of the top of the metal piece. Whenever I cut with the circular saw, I always like to use a quick square and cut. top of an inch and a half thick styrofoam insulation after sanding that piece to 150 grit I put two coats of finishing bonds with the manufacturer's mark symbol for that will be in the description just apply one coat thick, let it sit for about 10 minutes and then wipe I removed all the excess and then took some Gorilla Glue construction adhesive to attach the wood to the inside of the metal because it goes in the end grain of the wood.

I made sure to work it with one finger to get it right. penetration Once I had it all in, I held it all down and quickly cleaned any squeezed bits with a damp cloth. I would like to thank this video sponsor, trade

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ing

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. I want to show you a couple of accessories and dyes that you can make to personalize this.

To fit the way you brew your coffee, for this one I first measured the bottom of a standard coffee bag and added a half inch all the way around, then cut a piece of wood and metal to that size and connected them together. Later on to make a coffee bag holder the second thing I will make is a teapot holder, if you are making coffee to serve it is always good to have a place to store it and set it up for when it is hot after using it. an improvised compass to make a circle with a radius half an inch larger than the teapot.

I used the jigsaw to cut that piece out after cutting it, sanded it and then used it to trace the line for the metal base and I was happy. To find that you can cut circles in steel plates very easily with the angle grinder, as before, you want to make very shallow passes, this time even shallower so as not to pinch the blade as it spins and I use construction adhesive to hold them together. pieces of wood to their metal bases the last accessory I am making is a holder for the coffee filters, after calculating its interior dimension, I drew the shape of the holder and cut it with the jigsaw, of course it was not perfectly straight, but I did my best to stay on the line as much as possible.

The really cool thing about this accessory is that it attaches to the side of the coffee station using magnets. I used a Forstner drill bit to drill a hole that was the same size as the magnet and then used Gorilla Glue super glue gel to permanently bond them together, in fact they are in and they are so good that every time I replaced the ceramic magnets with neodymium magnets I had to drill them instead of taking them out and the final steps. One of these accessories was applying a couple of coats of Maker brand simple finish, so thank you very much for looking.

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