Window Frame Picture Frame Video 1 - 045

so I got this beautiful three-piece artwork set for uh for Christmas and it's supposed to be where you put it up on the wall and it gives a nice panoramic image which it's great but I've got a a larger empty space where it's going to hang on the wall and I've already H hung it up as is and it looks like hey there's three pictures right there it doesn't really look like they all flow so what I'm going to do is I'm going to frame the entire all three of these out with some divider strips in between and I'm going to case it with some molding uh left right and top like a window frame and then put a window seill down at the bottom and a nice piece of molding underneath uh that way it gives the impression of hey you're looking through this window and you see this beautiful scene outside kind of draw attention and tie it all together as opposed to three individual pieces it'll all look like one um that's the game plan anyway the material that I'm going to use for the frame of the frame is some 2 by dimensional Pine this is a scrap piece of 2x10 that I had lay around uh I only need one long piece for the top because the bottoms the bottom of the vertical pieces are going to be screwed into the window seill so I just need one piece that's about 54 in long and this just happens to be the only piece of scrap that I have that's long enough so I'm going to go ahead and use it just get one piece ripped out of this and use the rest of that stuff over there for the rest of the vertical pieces [Music] all right now it's time to cut all all four of my vertical pieces is the exact same length to do so I'm going to use a stop lock on my miter saw station um set the distance at 15 and 3/4 and then I'm just going to use the scrap cut off we just cut from the horizontal piece clamp it down now I can get four four repeatable cuts for my vertical pieces I said the distance wrong earlier uh I said it was 17 and 17 and a/4 uh I took into consideration the top thickness the thickness of the top horizontal piece but I'm not going to use a half flap joint like I originally thought I'm just going to go ahead and pocket hole screw this whole thing so my vertical distance is 15 and 3/4 which is the same measurement of my frames so here's the initial setup uh I've got my three picture frame or picture slots and these vertical pieces are going to be secured into the top with pocket hole screws and also the bottom with pocket hole screws I because this isn't going to be having because this is not going to have that much stress on it I'm just going to use the inch and a qu pocket hole screws throughout the entire setup here um 2x material into 2x material it's better to use the 2 and 1/2 in screws but this is not going to have any type of uh of of stress on this onto this whole setup other than wood movement that's not that big of a deal and also I'm going to come back with some molding that's going to tie everything in all the way around uh but basically I'm going to have a piece of one by down here so I don't want to use the the longer screen keeping things simple inch and a qu screws top and bottom all three all four of these vertical pieces just about everything in my shop is on Wheels so I can move it around uh and and dust is obviously a big problem in my shop like always so I like to keep the floor swept up often and into one pile when it's big enough I'll pick it up but I don't like to be walking around on Sawdust because that's slippery and I don't want to uh cause any stupid injuries over dumb stuff so what I like to do if I'm working on something that's going to create sawdust that is movable like this stand is right here um I'm going to be drilling uh a lot of holes real quick so just wheel my cart right next to my saw or sawdust pile and I can drill all my holes and the saw dust will be right next to the pile just won't have to sweep it up at all all right so I've already got this first Corner screwed in I'm working from the back side and this is the top I've got all my pieces drilled out and to get the exact spacing that I want I'm just going to take one of these pictures and slide it in place like so and then with a real snug fit I'm just going to screw it in all right I've got it flipped back so I'm looking at the back side and that is the top I went ahead and use some scrap cuz none of this is going to show so just about all these vertical pieces have some some type of marking this is where I used a use this piece of wood as a backer when I was using my circular saw but anyway got them all spaced out referenced from that corner so that side's nice and flush uh some of these are not exactly perpendicular to uh to the top rail mainly because I didn't really take my time making sure my mitor saw was back to 100% square and I don't care uh this is all going to be covered up and it'll be all right uh when I put this this bottom piece this is going to be the uh window seill it's going to be flush with this plane and it's going to extend down about 3 in 3 and 1/2 in I think I'm going to measure this one just as a little bit of a reference uh just and just see what looks right uh this is the back side like I said the window seal is going to come down here and when I go to secure these in place I'm going to put all three picture frames where they need to be that way everything squares it up nice and neat and uh even if it's not Square the picture frames fit cuz I know and I'm using them as the part as part of the assembly process so I locked up and I found a piece of 2 and 1/2 in uh primed MDF ready to go I just trimmed it to length so it overhangs about an inch and a half on both sides I'm going to use that as like the window seill but in order for me to attach that I need to know that that these vertical pieces are exactly exactly where they should be and to do that I'm just going to slide my pictures in like I said this is the back side up by the way slide these pictures in where they need to be and then I can with the help of some clamps I can set this in place I've already marked out where it needs to be so this might be a little tricky to get started all with it all adjusted and clamped out where it needs to be I'm going to take my pocket hole screws my inch and a qu and just fill these up and screw them down all right so here it is roughed out a little bit you can start to see it take shape uh the pictures are just sitting in there but uh starting to take shape like I said I left a little bit more of an overhang than what I than what looks all right but the the trim that I'm going to put next to it it's going to take up some of that overhang space and also going to put a vertical piece underneath it just like a traditional window seill in order for me to add this this vertical piece down here I want it to be flush lengthwise with the trim that's going to come up over here so to do so obviously we need to cut the trim first and what I did all the way around is I came in a/4 of an inch and I marked my location qu inch all the way around as an inset and that is because if you notice most of your doors in your home should all be that way anyway are off set from the frame itself from the inside casing and that is so you don't it's going to be difficult to get these perfectly lined up all the way across and any door rather so they offset them a little bit and that'll be cut like so and my measurement get out of the light my measurement is where they intersect so that's where I need to make a 45° angle going away it's at that location and to do so I'm going to use my 45° sled on the table saw with my vertical pieces cut to length according to my crosshairs here I can smear some glue on the contact portion where the two pieces will meet and just tack it in place with my 23 gauge 23 gauge pin [Music] nailer I'm using my pin nailer here as opposed to a brad nailer because this this is recycled molding this is leftover uh removed molding that was already used from a remodel and it's already filled with staple holes and whatnot that I'm going to come back and COA like you would a normal window uh but you know my pin nailer will hold it in place just fine what's really going to hold it is the wood glue