How to Build a Mirror Frame

What's up, savages? I'm Justin and today we're going to keep things really simple and

build

a rustic

mirror

frame

. I'm Wild Rose. DIY with this simple

frame

, it's great practice for anyone just getting into woodworking. You can scale it down and do it. You can also make yourself a nice picture frame, so for this

build

I use the table saw's miter saw, use the drill and a palm router, so if you buy the lumber the width you already want, you can skip the miter saw. table and if not If you don't have a miter saw, you can go ahead and use your circular saw.

Enough talking, let's get to the build, so the first thing I'm going to do here is measure the top and bottom pieces and the side rails and then cut them out. the chop saw, so if you've never used the chop saw before, it's important that you want to leave the line, what that means is you just want to cut as close to the line as possible, so now that I've cut them all. lengthwise, I'm just going to cut them widthwise on the table saw, in this case I'm going to cut them all down to four inches, so now I'm lowering the table saw blade so I can cut what's called a rabbit , so I'm going to make a cut here in the middle of the wood and move the fence closer and closer until I get the desired width.

So I thought it would be easier to sand it all down before putting it all together. now I'm just going to use my commercial Jake and I'll make some pocket holes in the ends of the side pieces when you're using them, you might want to make sure that when the baby screw doesn't go into the end grain of your other piece because it's not going to hold on now, we're just going to put a little bit of glue on the end pieces where the pocket holes go through just to give it that extra strength, just hold it down, make sure it's nice and square, good job buddy, then keep going go ahead and screw. the two pieces together and then we'll just repeat that for all four sides these Craig clamps are great for getting both pieces of wood nice and level with each other so at this point I've found it easier to move on to the floor because the table on the one I was working on wasn't very long so the end pieces weren't really supported, so when I moved to the ground I was able to get everything nice and flat, so for the other rabbit I'll just use my router. and I'm just going to throw this little section out here so we don't have any gaps at the ends originally I had done it the other way around and then I realized I couldn't put holes in my pocket so don't do it.

What I did in that case, but hey, if we learn and figure it all out, what I'm going to do is take my router. Mine is not aligned there. I'm just going to make a little mark. I want to go half an inch from there, tape measure, find that mark there, then I'm going to place all the plugs here, oh, that's right on the line, that's pretty good, now I can go ahead, use my router to get this toy. You can see that the router got away from us a little bit here. I had it clamped but I didn't have a tight enough clamp and I also tried to take out too much meat for this router.

In general, we just want to drink. a little quarter of an inch at a time and we worked backwards, but we just tried it and it didn't work our way, but it's okay if you calm this down, no problem and then the most important thing is just to make sure that we have enough space between here to put up our

mirror

, so you should be fine, we have a frame all together, the blue is all dry, so now we're going to dye it, so I like to use that too. I don't like to recommend it then. you use this same wood conditioner, it makes a huge difference, it makes me a super even Galan stain, whereas if you didn't apply it it would look super stained and honestly terrible, so let's hold off on that for a bit, always stir it in first.

We'll just apply it with a blue paper towel here so you can see the mapping now. We've given our wood conditioner a chance to settle so now we can go ahead and start staining so I'm going to use a very dark walnut yeah that's what everything in my house is connected to so mix it up and try Don't cause too many bubbles because those can actually translate into the stain you clean, we will only use the dry cloth. to do this just soak it in and wipe it off, don't be afraid to apply it because then you'll come back and wipe off all the excess dye anyway, well that's not a good opportunity to get soaked so just go ahead and wipe it all off, yeah it's very It's important to wipe off any excess stain because if it forms a puddle it will dry very sticky and you don't want that, make sure you get into all these little nooks and crannies wherever it is. the stain had a chance to fall over the edge you usually get more make sure you get all of that so we're here to help you decide overnight two coats sucks so we're going to go ahead and just cover it with the transparent crystal. semi-gloss black so after the varnish dries you might notice it's a little rough if you take some 220 grit sandpaper and go over it lightly it will smooth it out and now mom to tell you the truth slide this slowly to see how it looks. face it so now we're going to hold it in place with these little glacier dots and I'll show you so they're really simple you just put the pointy side right there with a flathead screwdriver so I originally used the nails that it came with this sawtooth hair, but I found out the hard way that they are simply not strong enough, so I change them for screws.

Next we'll use our stud finder to find the perfect spot, mark the height we want for this case, it's 70 inches and then just screw in a two inch screw, make sure it's nice and level, make any adjustments we need to perfect, okay guys, that's a wrap on the mirror bill, it's finished, it's done, it's on the wall, it looks great, you get it, it really brought this whole room together. bill hit the ground my building for your mom take me to the ground slap that like button ride pilot that subscribe button let the world know that DIY baby is coming for you ok