How to make Homemade Siding From Plywood - DIY Off Grid Cabin Build Episode 41

foreign ER of today's video my piece whose product combines industry rated ear protection with bluetooth enabled headphones it comes with a nice travel case there's your Bluetooth enabled earbuds comes with a charging cable [Music] and a first read and the user guide the charging cable is USB a to USBC and here is your charging port where you plug in your USBC end of the charging cable if you press the multi-purpose button until it alternates red and blue that's how you pair and then once paired you press the multi-purpose button to connect to your phone have you ever noticed that putting on safety glasses with ear muffs is kind of a hassle when you use these earbuds there's no problem putting on your safety glasses nothing to get in the way so uh let's test out the noise reduction and it works perfectly now let's get back to the video [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I've got an idea of what I want to do for the siding on the inside of the cabin and um my thought is to just take some three-quarter inch plywood slice it up into uh five and a half or three and a half inch slats and then stain each piece a different color stain and this is just some stain that I've got on my shelf right now I've got natural we've got traditional pecan traditional cherry English Chestnut pecan and gun stock so I would just you know randomly stain each slat a different color and then you know Place those up in a random order on the wall I don't know you know if that's something that's you know gonna look good but I want to give it a shot so I'm going to go ahead and throw some stain you know a different stain on each of these I've got six boards that I cut out from a piece of scrap and uh we'll see how it looks okay I picked up a couple more uh stains I've got bleached blue and rustic Sage so let's start off with some pecan in here [Applause] let's go ahead and shake it up first picked up some really cheap throwaway brushes to use possible all right that's a lot darker [Music] a lot darker and a lot redder than uh can see how it turns out though [Music] all right one thing about plywood is the grain is not the best looking grain so there is that that's one limitation of doing it this way let's go with some rustic Sage [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] so there's a couple of things that I'm trying to figure out here one is do I you know which colors do I like and two do I like this size slat it's five and a half inches which kind of replicates a a six inch slat which is usually five and a half inches so we'll see I can always cut these down smaller you know if I want to this is just a scrap piece of what I've had in my garage for probably three years so uh let's go with another color let's try the bleached blue [Music] [Music] foreign okay we'll give that a minute and then we'll wipe it off all right now we're going with uh traditional cherry give that a minute and wipe it off all right now we're going to go with English Chestnut this one seems to be drying pretty fast I'm going to go ahead and wipe it off foreign we're going to finish off with gun stock and this is one of my favorite outside colors I've done a lot of projects with this so all right this is another one I'm going to wipe off right now not going to wait all right those are the colors I've got so uh let me put them all together and we can take a look at them unfortunately I don't have a surface that's large enough to put these side by side so I just kind of have to stack them up like this and kind of pretend but that's the idea is to just have many different colors and just kind of randomly attach them to the wall and uh these are a little bit bowed so I can't get a perfect picture I don't know what do you guys think which colors do you like and which colors do you not like and uh do you like the idea of having multiple colors or just a single color and if you like the multiple colors are there any that you would drop out so let me know what you think in the comments but another thing that I would do to these slats is I would get a just a small quarter inch chamfer and chamfer all of the edges even the Inside Edge right there and I would wait until the stain dries so that those little chamfers would be unstained just to kind of highlight set it apart I think that'll be a nice look but this is uh what I'm thinking for the siding inside the cabin and I'm not uh settled on these colors these are just the ones that I had on hand I might pick up a couple of other colors these ended up being a lot darker than I thought just by looking on the the can so I might go with some super light colors and see if I can come up with a combination that I like here's a look at the three lighter colors side by side and here's a look at the three darker colors side by side but uh that's it I think that's gonna do it for this week's video I'll talk to you guys later foreign