Nice Furniture from Box Store Lumber ??

J's customer Creations is sponsored by bits and bits use the code J Bates to save 10% off your next router bit or CNC bit purchase at bits bits.com [Music] oh [Music] I [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right I [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] a [Music] oh all right time for a curveball so two things first well second is the curveball which is uh why this is in a permanent state of donish donish and but first let's talk about the actual project itself this was designed for my daughter's bedroom toys on the floor need a place to go problem solution so there you go uh the SketchUp design video I had five shelves and actually made five shelves there the fifth one's right over there yeah you can see that in the background uh but when I put it all you know set it in place it just looked like it was a little bit crowded the space in between the shelves looked a little bit crowded so I went with four shelves instead of five um I designed it from with Southern yellow pine in mind because was going in my daughter's bedroom and the rest of her furniture and there is Southern yellow pine uh so there's that and then as far as the construction I wanted to play off of one of my favorite projects that I've ever made it is a basic angled three tier half flap shelf thing right it's not like a big home run amazing but it's one of my favorites mainly because of the joinery I am a huge fan of proud half flap joints because if you make things proud instead of flush it it there's there's depth there you you you have a little bit more visual interest with the depth and then all of the exposed edges you can champ for all those edges and that just gives you way way more lines more geometry for your mind and your eyes to be drawn towards and in my opinion it looks really really good now on that three angled three tier half lap shelf I chamfered every single edge that I could possibly chamfer and I think it looks great on this one I didn't chamfer the the end grain to thickness Edge that's the only Edge I didn't chamfer on all these just to kind of change it up a little bit and I don't think it looks as good I think it would have looked better if I if I chamfered every single edge so lesson learned there uh I made this out of regular Box Store Lumber some of you may think that there's nothing beautiful to ever be made out of box Thor Lumber and while you may somewhat be right you also somewhat wrong so if you buy Southern yellow pine 2x10s or 2x 12s then those typically have two defects that you need to eliminate and if you do that you'll be left with some beautiful straight grain material as you can see here so if you eliminate the center pith if the center pith is in the board don't use it it's the least stable part of the tree minus knots um and it'll do all kinds of craziness and not only that but it's it's not beautiful the center pith of the tree eliminate it also the knots eliminate the knots and if you do that you can take inexpensive material and get beautiful material without breaking the bank so off the shelf these 2x10s cost me $111 per board feet per board foot you figure in that's just say a 50% waste so that means for this beautiful straight grain material with no defects no def mostly no defects there's a few that I had to include just because I didn't get enough material um then you're look you're looking at $222 per board foot that's not bad in my opinion uh if you like the look of Southern yine so if you eliminate the center pith and you just work from those Edge pieces of the of the 2 x10s 2 x 12 the majority of that's either going to be Rift SA or quarter sa which is what I used here Rift rfts on is where you have your your grain going on about a 45° angle looking at the end grain and what that results in is two adjacent faces that look nearly identical so these these legs I tried to get the best of the best for the legs and if you walk around the side to the front especially on the front two the best two up front right uh you can't tell a difference from front to side or side to front because it's it's a rift sa piece and the grain just visually flows perfectly around it so there's a lot of a lot of uh attention to grain selection when working with these boards but if you take your time you're going to be left with a beautiful beautiful project now like I said there are a few defects in this uh material that I selected uh and on the bottom side of of all of these shelves I think there is a knot on the bottom side uh but that doesn't really poke through and in my opinion it looks great well the bottom shelf does have a small little knot that does poke through but uh that's just what I had to work with and I'm I'm okay with that so the curveball number two the curveball and the reason why that this will stay in a permanent state of donish it's it's built it's structurally sound but I still have pencil lines and I'm not going to take the time to sand off there's some smudges here and there uh I've got a few few little dents that I was going to iron out but I'm not going to and that's the the reason is because while I did build this for my daughter's bedroom while it was in clamps last night we got no no ification that the uh seller of some land we're trying to purchase has signed the documents so we are moving and we're starting over no house no shop we're going to be building all this topic for another video but I have um I have to sell all the F we are selling all the furniture in the house so it doesn't make sense to put this in the house if we're going to sell it so instead I'm going to keep this as a utility shelf that I'll just throw in a shed for storage which means this is way overbuilt and way too nice looking to be a utilitarian shelf however it's structurally sound and it's going to fit that need immediately so that's the reason why it's done is that's the reason why I'm not sanding off the pencils pencil lines and that's the reason why I'm definitely not taking the time to put a finish on this life happens fast and uh sometimes a curveball happens but um you adjust to move on uh I mentioned we're moving in another video you can check that out I think it's the previous one that I posted on this main Channel it was the possibility of moving well possibility has become reality so uh lots of stuff to do lots of stuff to talk about in upcoming videos but that's where I'm going to end this one um I'll have a detailed website article for this video where I I kind of explain everything that I was doing rather than doing it in the video so if you're interested in an explanation of this check out the website article go to my website jcustom creations.com newsletter so you don't uh miss anything that I publish and um that's it talk to you the next one