hey guys and welcome back again to my
channel into another video so I actually
got a request to do this video so I
thought I would go ahead and do that for
you guys so I'm going to show you step
by step how I construct a frame and son
that looks really near-perfect in
professional and smooth and a product
that people are actually going to want
to buy
this is the material that I always use
for my framing and I know I've talked
about it before in my videos but these
are they one by two furring strips that
I get usually from Lowe's or Home Depot
so I'll show you I'll go ahead and show
you how I cut my boards and how I stay
in them and then how I put them together
so I'm starting out here with just a
flat piece of blue on board or plywood
as you can see it's very thin it's about
a quarter of an inch and that's what I
use for all of my sons now I've done
different videos using different
materials but this is definitely my
favorite can use so if arnica and
painted this board I'm using for a son
and I didn't do anything special I just
used a roller and some flat paint and it
got on the sides but that's okay I will
be sanding that off later now I'm going
to cut the pieces for the frame and I
just measure the top and bottom lengths
Masson to get the top and bottom pieces
of my frame and for the pieces in
between I'll measure the distance
between the top and bottom or just the
height of the Sun - one and a half
inches and if you're doing modern
corners then all you'll do is measure
the same dimensions as your son
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okay so now I have all of my framing cut
to the lengths that I want these are my
top and bottom faces and then these are
my side pieces
so now that I have all these the next
step that I do is to sand them and I use
this hand sander and I think it came
from harbor freight tools and I'm pretty
sure you can get them for around 20
bucks this is a Chicago five-inch random
orbital palm sander so I use this all
the time this is pretty much my best
friend when I am making suns sometimes
it comes with risks and sometimes it
doesn't but you can get these at Walmart
or Lowe's and these are just the five
inch sanding discs so this is an old is
just velcro and it just attaches to the
bottom of your sander and I'll put a new
one of these online and I'll go ahead
and sand down all of my framing before I
put any stain on there
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okay so now I have all of my framing
sanded and the next step I do is to go
ahead and stain everything I'm using
rust-oleum wood stain in true Brown and
I'm going to go ahead and stain all of
my boards before I actually put them
together I will have to go back later
and do some touch-up work but that's
okay I will go back later and do
touch-up work after everything is
completed
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okay so my framing is all stained and
now I'm ready to start putting it
together
and I go ahead and put it together
before I put it on to my son board and I
usually use either a nail gun or a
staple gun and they're always handy to
have but if you don't have that you can
always just use nails and Hammer I'm
just using these clamps to hold
everything together and hold everything
square and level if you don't have these
that's fine but an extra set of hands
will definitely help when you go to
staple and nail everything together brad
nailer and he's one in nine sixteenths
inch Brad nails and you can find these
at Lowe's or Home Depot ugly so we're
gonna be using this to construct the
frame
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now I'm just going to nail my son board
onto the frame and just making sure that
all my edges are lined up as perfect as
possible okay so I'm done
staining I'm done constructing my
signboard so as you can see I've got
some rough edges here along the side
okay so to get rid of those really rough
edges I'm gonna be using this belt
sander and it's really going to make a
difference as you'll see in the
smoothness of your edges if you don't
have a belt sander I would at least
suggest getting a really good Palm
orbital sander to sand your edges after
you construct your son that's really
going to help smooth up all your edges
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last step is just to go over the board
one more time with my palm sander just
to get rid of all those rough splinters
left by the belt sander
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now I'm just going to touch up all the
areas that I have sanded with some more
stain and I will be finished
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so thank you guys for watching another
video I hope you enjoyed it I'll see you
guys next time
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