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what's this plots of land from the 1800s
wait I have an idea
I mean picture frames I'm gonna make my
picture frames out of walnut I flattened
one side on the jointer and then cut
them in half on the bandsaw so I'd get
two pieces from this one board a trip
through the planer cleans up the other
side now that I have all my pieces rough
mill I'm gonna cut them on the table saw
at the inch and a half wide
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now that our pieces are cut to width I'm
going to cut a slight bevel on one side
that way whenever we put the pieces
together you're gonna see that bevel
carry from one side and down the other
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we cut our bevel detail on one side I'm
gonna cut the rabbet on the backside -
how's our picture I like to make my
rabbits about 3/8 of an inch deep and
about 1/4 inch over from the edge I
switched over to a ripping blade because
it has a flat bottom grind that way I
can just make a couple quick passes over
the table saw my rabbit will be done
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look at all the rabbits on our pieces so
now we're gonna cut them the final link
so we can assemble our picture frame to
do that I'm gonna use this picture frame
making jig I saw David bakudo make this
he has a great video that outlines
exactly how we put this together so I'm
gonna put a link of that in the
description below in that sense it's a
piece of plywood with a ruler that is
cut in half
and then it's put together at a
45-degree angle to the blade that allows
you to cut one piece of your picture
frame move it over to the other side and
but it against the stop-loss that has a
sliding feature and you cut the other
side so what's great about this jig is
you can quickly batch out pieces my
frame was gonna hold artwork that is 11
by 8 and a half so I set my jig to those
measurements and then cut my pieces the
miters were glued together and held with
painters tape until the glue dried
I let the picture frame dry overnight
now without any sort of reinforcement
these miters are pretty unique you can
do a couple things you can either put
something internally such as a loose
mortise tenon a domino you could shoot
some pin nails into it to hold it or you
can do what I'm gonna do which is put
spline so I have a spline Jake here it
rides all my table saw fence so I can
put the picture frame into the jig ride
it over the blade and it's gonna cut a
groove for me so that I can insert my
splines I cut the grooves for the
splines on each corner of the frame and
then i milled some maple to lib list in
enough to fit into the group I cut the
splines on my bandsaw and then glued
them into place while the glue is drying
I cut the glass for my frame I measured
the width with a straight edge and used
a glass cutting wheel to score the glass
you can get these at any big-box store
there's a bottom one in which you place
under your scored mark then with equal
pressure on both sides you snap your
glass in half once the glue is dry I use
the bandsaw to cut the splines and then
took them to the disk sander to remove
most of the waste fit your frames
require a sneaky amount of sanding and
most of this can't be done with the
orbital sander so I had to do it by hand
these mineral Spears to clean up the
frame and then applied minwax wipe-on
poly
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now that our frame is dry we can put it
in the blast that we cut earlier and
then also our artwork so we have the
hard board that we cut earlier drop that
right in and now we need to hold the
backer board in place so a couple ways
you can do this you can use like Brad
nails and just hammer those in I have a
point driver so these are a little
pricey they're about $70 at Hobby Lobby
or Michaels but you can get one of those
coupons and get it for a lot less than
that these things are fantastic if you
make a lot of picture frames there are
two different types of points that you
would drive it
there's rigid ones and flexible ones so
if you plan on removing the back and
changing out the artwork from time to
time by the flexible ones so they
actually let you bend the tab up to pull
the backer out if you use the rigid ones
after a couple times with bending it
they'll just break off I've made that
mistake
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see there you have it absolutely love
the way it turned out this was a gift
for my wife that she doesn't know about
what I put in here was the blueprints
from our house in Virginia and that
meant a lot to us it's where we started
a family it's where we had our son at so
it just means a lot that I can look at
that and I can see we're always in
critical milestones happen and I can
look at this picture and know this is
where he took his first steps or this is
where we remodeled this bathroom when we
didn't know what we were doing so all
those things that you have whenever you
are starting off in a family I hope this
video shows that making that your frame
doesn't have to be difficult and you can
provide a lot of character to it and
really make it your own if you like some
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until next time thanks for watching