Gadgetory

all right so I'm going to show you how to make these knickknacks shelves that I saw on an internet site it's pretty popular basically the shelves look a lot like this these are the exact shells we're going to be making I'm gonna kind of walk you through it step by step these ones are actually made with the color shifting paint that kind of shifts from green to purple I don't know if you can tell really with this camera it looks pretty cool it's kind of a subtle change just goes from green to black to purple kind of cool I like it anyway you're real all right so all the plans are writable on the internet so you can find them you know on your school comm Google books I think it was so it's nothing that's you know top-secret or anything like that so I'll give it a link down in the comments now where the plans can be located and also kind of inclusion here at the video as well just you know again you okay so right now in the medium-sized stencil so what I've done is I've taken the measurements have right here so four feet five inches and nine sixteenths is the top nine inches and five sixteenth is the width of it and then I found the middle of it two and two with two feet two inches and 3/4 and I find the middle because when you're going to make the curve on it you have to put the peak of the curve right here on the string just kind of find yourself on down by this corner over here so you have to just curve it up and down like that so I've been using is this strap right here I find the radius of it and just put the pencil the radius on this one is about three feet eleven and five sixteenths and so I have a little mark right here on my strap and so I'm just going to line that mark up with the peak and just kind of hold the pencil as it curves down and that's how you get the perfect arc on I give that a shot right now so on the stop up dead center with this line right here that's why I put my finger on the peak of that and I swing it down like that it ends up right down there at the bottom corner so once I am going to stab a pencil through this just like that and I'll keep the lead in the same spot and I'll be able to make a perfect arc so I had to put a poster down as well and on to keep the cable from stacking on the concrete if you can see there I have the perfect curve for that shelf so that stencils done on you to do is cut it out he's kind of got to repeat that process for every stencil you know getting a length getting the height I'm finding the midpoint and then getting a string so you can draw the perfect circle so there might be a better way to do that personally this way we're for me so once you have all the stencils is pretty much the hardest part of the whole project anyway so now I'm making the lines like the slots of where the the board slide into each other so I'm going to start marking the mouth so this is the center line right here I'm just going to double check to make sure I have the center line in the same spot so that's the kind of like 26 and 3/4 this one is looking what's going from end to end here to the center just what I was looking right on 26 and 3/4 as well so tiny bit off on that one okay it'll be alright so then what we do is we come four and a half inches on either side of this and make a mark and then what I do once I have that mark made I use this thing right here just kind of because the material I'm using is kind of like a plastic just put the mark right here off the edge of the table so this is flat then I can draw a straight line between the two just right along that edge so right here I have the large party made up at the centerline and I'm mark in the middle of each of the other slots so I want to have the middle then ask me to go to make make the slot 3/4 inches just divide that in half and put half on the other side I might just get a piece of the plywood and just lay it down and just trace the outside of it so that's for the slots still making this stencil what I'm doing as I went to a three-eighths on either side of that Center mine you know how I went a four and a half here and then I have nine inches between these Center lines and so now I'm coming across from the other side lining that up and then continuing the line with my pencil just like that come on right in there and then I just go in and I fill in the lines just to make sure that I don't that I know where the the center marks are all right we have all the senses done just like I mentioned before you know four and a half inches from the center line and then nine inches in between them all from nine inches on center okay so right here at all the stencils lined up this is important to do just to make sure all your slots are in the right spot so if you have let's say this is over like half an inch it's not going to mesh well with the rest of the pieces so all your lines have to be in the in the correct positions so make sure you check that before you do any marks on the boards as far as the slots go you all right so we're turned up working out for me is taking a tape measure and going up the sides and putting a market every 10 inches just so I know where I'm at to try to keep the whole thing about parallel now on this side as well keeping me every 10 inches and I finally got the little ones to fit up at the top so that was probably a super huge puzzle but in the end it worked out so I know you've got to cut them out and then make the slots just cutting out the shapes right now I'm doing it with the jigsaw one of these look guys I figured that was the best thing to use in this situation just because you have the curves any other type of saw would have been would have taken too long or even too hard to make the turns with like a skill saw or something like that um so yeah so I'm just cutting out the basic shapes right now I haven't marked or cut the grooves in it yet I'm going to do that afterward just because it'll be a little easier to cut the grooves so I have this straight edge to go off of I can use that same metal square that I was using before so yeah it's pretty much