Rustic X Hall Tree #anawhite

This week I will be adding another piece to our popular NEX

rustic

collection that I have in my workshop and I am about to start my project. This week, what I chose to build is a

rustic

tree

X Hall, if you will. If you are familiar with any of my plans, the rustic . and I extended the back legs up and made a

hall

way

tree

, so I'm going to tackle that project this week, so here's the plan: We'll build two sets of legs two by four and then we'll join the two legs together two by four . four at a time and two at a time, then we'll add the excess on the ends of quarter inch plywood to the back of the top and a seat and then we'll finish it all off with some hooks.

I'm going to start trimming this project. I'm going to use my compound miter saw that's behind me because it's very important to get nice square, straight cuts. If you don't have a compound miter saw, ask for me before Christmas and in the meantime you can use it as a square saw or a ruler and a circular saw, but you really have to work hard to make good cuts, so I finished all the cuts and go to move on to actual assembly. You almost have to have a template to put together. a couple of those joints just because you're joining the thickness of a 2x4 this way, it would be very difficult to do it without embarrassment, so if you need a critical for one joint, you can also use it on all joints, so that's what I'm going to do here.

There are three things you need to do to adjust your crepe tape and the first is adjust your height here and the second thing you need to do is adjust the clamp, so how tight the clamp fits when it closes and then the third thing is the color of the drill bit guide, so you just loosen it up and it comes with this little guide, all you do is let this drop in and then squeeze it, take it out and really tighten it. I tightened it up, so I drilled all the pocket holes and now I'm going to start putting words together.

Well, these are basically the back of the palm tree and it's basically the same as the front leg, we just need a taller one, therefore. go here, okay, so go ahead. I'm going to start putting them together. It was announced that it will be a larger project. It's a big project, so I think I'll try to turn it up and try to hold it at the same time to make it work. Gotta grease one thing if you guys can make gravity work for all you tree posters yeah you like it. Okay, thanks for babysitting, why are you so cute?

You're ridiculous, huh, why? Okay, my goodness, this room made good progress, but I, Samantha, wait until tomorrow because Gracie took the break before we knew it, so the bench frame is ready, but I. I'm not going to turn it over yet although I really want to because I'm going to add a little bit of slack. It was here at the bottom. You could put a piece of stack here and make a whole shelf, but I want it like this. be loose, that way if the shoes have dirt on them or whatever, it could fall underneath with the vacuum cleaner, so it's really starting to look like the gift of the

hall

way right now.

I'm going to add the X detail here, it's not structural, but it really does it. It looks better and kind of hides any mess I might have there, so what I'm going to do is choose where I want it and then trace it. This is much easier than trying to find the exact location. angle and all that, it gives you some flexibility if you want to alter the size of the bench, you can do that pretty easily, so I can actually take it here or I can put it to the side so you can see, it's amazing, it's right at 45 so maybe I can just set my saw to 45 and make those cuts at 44, so next I'm going to cut this one and then I'm going to cut the overlay that you can talk about as one piece, I'm going to lay out the whole thing and then I'm going to attach the features that it has.

I can make those cuts, they should be pretty close, so what I'm going to do now is mark where they are relative to each other, there we go, so now I'm going to place the X there and there are a couple of different ways you can do it, so if you have a nailer, you can just put some nails in, you can use regular screws or you can use your crank screws, so I'm just going to throw in some joke templates that look really cool. I'm just going to repeat. on the other side in the step of putting the seat on the bench and what I'm going to do is take three two-by-sixes and then I'm going to put the pins together to create a kind of table and then I'm going to put the entire seat up to the top of the bench, but the problem is that we basically extended the back legs up now that they are in the way so this can move backwards, so I just traced both legs here and out with a jigsaw so that it ended up It's a little more complicated than what I would like to do, so I think in the plans I'm going to change it and make the top a little bit different, but it works and you know, what I'm going to do now is join.

To get these other two words, I punched holes in the pocket, put it together like a table, and then put it back together, so here's the top. I got a full s1 ticket. The reason I did it is that it is easier to place. It's pretty good but I'm not going to put it up because once I put it up it's going to be really hard to get in here and finish them and sand them and stain them so I'm going to wait until the end to put this up yeah it looks pretty cool but I feel like which could really benefit from having a backing so things don't fall there, yeah what I'm thinking is we could definitely make something with boards and planks that would be really beautiful and then also be really expensive, so what?

I'm thinking about what I'm going to do since it's 48 inches, just under 48, it's just wine. I'm just going to take a sheet of quarter inch plywood that costs about $20 a sheet, I'm just going to cut it up. for the thighs I'll cut some false ridges and then I'll just staple it to the back and it will look like I did it on the back. Notice adding some hooks here, maybe some smaller coats. Oh, I have a 2 by 6 that says like this. to make a little shelf, you could also put things on top if you want, okay, so I'm just going to uncover the back and attach it.

I'm working in the back, the first thing I do is grab a quarter. inch plywood and I'm cutting it, the sides don't fit on the back. I'm using a piece of Styrofoam on the floor and a circular saw, I just use it to cut right on the floor. I want to add some fake slots. so it looks like a board on the back, so I set my saw blade to an eighth of an inch deep. I just made some cuts. Now I'm going to attach the plywood to the back of the call tree, but I want to make I'm sure I attached it to this and this, but once the pilots covered I don't know where this and this are, so what I'm doing first is working the centers right now with a pencil and then once you place the plywood.

I can see these two center marks draw a line between them and then I know where they are. I'm going to staple it up so I throw something in the trash okay so the back look how it looks we just got all the hardware. Done and this piece is made it is so beautiful I can't believe it so now I see why the rustic build if you can build one. coffee table or the bench in this collection you can build all I did was take the plans of the bench we already have and extend the back legs up and a couple across the parts at the back and it became a tree complete.

Hope you like. Also, if you build it, share it on Brad's post, tag me on Instagram. It's amazing to see how your projects turn out and it's also nice to see what it would look like in a different color or with a stinky smell, so I really wanted to. I stayed on it too and it just wouldn't work in my house, so thanks for doing that and for building and sharing. I really appreciate you and the plants you need to click on to calm the Alawites and grab those blueprints to build. I'm going to move this to our entryway, finish it all up, and start using it.

Thank you very much for watching, see you next week.