Turn Fence Pickets Into $100 Porch Signs | Easy Laser Craft Tutorial

Do you make porch leaners to take to the craft shows? This is a big item with a big statement and big profits. And we'll show you how to make one right now. [Music] What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to make money? So do we. And today we're talking profitable porch cleaners. Big projects with a big price tag. People love to make a statement with their front porches, especially when you start hitting this fall and holiday season, fall, straight on through to Halloween, straight on through to Christmas. People love to make a front porch statement, and porch leaners are a great way to do that. You can see them from the street. Door hangers are nice, but a porch leaner, you can definitely see from the road. If you've been following our channel for a while, you know that we love to do a porch leaner. Garrett can take two porch pickets or fence pickets and turn them into some amazing things. So, we've got some of our friends right here behind us. I'm going to introduce you because all of these kits are on our website, k&gmake.com. So, you've got Sam, Neil, he's forever in blue jeans. That's our scarecrow. You got Tom, our little Tom Turkey. These are our OGs. This is your all season leaner here. This is our welcome to our home with our little interchangeable wreath here in the middle. Also, just a straight welcome sign. You've got Harry over here. This is our uh nutcracker. And of course, you've got welcome, we've been dying to meet you, our coffin porch leaner. It's amazing what you can do with just a couple of porch pickets. Fence pickets are super cheap, so I love to use them as a base. They're a great base to then add some cheap MDF and some paint. Boom. Big ticket item. That's right. So, these porch pick Jeez. Yeah, you really love those porch pickets, right? It's not even a thing. Porch pickets aren't even a thing. Fence pickets are $228 right now. Price fluctuates, but they're usually less than $3. $3 to $4 max. During the pandemic, they got expensive. They're in the fours, $4 range, but they're back down. Yeah. 258 is what I saw on the Lowe's website. I didn't go get any for this particular project cuz we're going to try something new. But for $5, you've got yourself a nice base for your leaner. And then for about $10, we're using about $10 worth of MDF to put on our leaner. Today, you're talking $15 in materials. And we sell these things from $70 to $100. Yeah. Well, Tom here, he's just on a 1x12 that was 4T tall. You could probably use that same 1x12 for today's project. These are Yeah, the two pickets with some braces across them. Harry here is also two pickets. You You can't even tell. So is Neil. Two pickets. And so is Uncle Sam over here. I tell you what, I love the two picket project. Yeah, porch leaners are a great seller and a real way to add a big splash to your front porch. Let's see what we've got for you today. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed a big sheet of quarter inch MDF cuz we're cutting out all of our pieces, including what I would use for the pickets. So, this is 48x 36. Yep. And this is going to go in our big laser. Fits right in there. We're going to be using our Foxy Hughes paints. These are outdoor house paints, so indoor outdoor, but they've got all of those weather resistant properties in there. So, it's perfect for front porch lina. And then we'll be using some Starbond Thick to bring it all together. This stuff is quick dry and it's pretty much there forever. And that is it. Step two. We're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to bring this giant sheet of MDF over to the Eon Nova 14 and we'll cut out all of our pieces. Now, like I said, this project is a little bit different than what we typically do. We're trying something new. Now, you can do this with two fence pickets, not porch pickets because they're not a thing. Two fence pickets, but we are actually going to use MDF as our backer. Why? Because we have a skeleton that's going to be a second layer of a backer. We really just want to see how well this is going to hold up. So, this is a little bit of a test project. We'll keep you informed on social media how it's going through the month of October, but we want to use this as the leaner. So, it is going to be the base and it's going to be the top pieces that we normally put on here. We're going to use the MDF for both pieces, but just know that yes, you can use a 1x12 or you can cut down two fence pickets. Either way, I have a lot of MDF, so I'm going MDF. Pardon me. Excuse me. Pardon me. If you don't have a 55x 36 in bed like this guy, don't worry. Garrett has created a desktop version. You can cut it in your desktop size laser. It should all fit within 12 by 20. You're gonna have to pardon the crowd. Look at my front pocket. What's in my front pocket? Oh, are you happy to see me? Step three. And now we paint. But we're not going to paint with this brush. We're actually going to paint with some 4-in foam rollers. First thing we're going to do is pop out all of our little pieces, set up our little tape palette, and get this thing started. I love tabs. I mean, all of my pieces are right here in one frame. Easy to pop out. Yeah, that's just the inside of a bone. Probably didn't even get a little It's like a bag of bones right here. Like we said, we're doing things a little bit different. So, this is going to be a 4ft porch leaner. So, he these lengths of MDF here are at what? 4T. These are 47 in. 47 in. Yeah. So, it'll fit on a sheet. So, this is be our front piece. We're going to pop our letters out of the back piece. And now we've got two layers of MDF. Let's see how this works. We're just going to have to I'm just going to have to watch it. I really think we might be okay now that we've got this painted with our outdoor house paint. And I think it's going to two layers of MDF 1/2 in is going to hold up to the lean for the month. Mhm. And we'll go from there. Tried to leave enough material back here to help support it. So, I did cut the letters out, but I left when we're done. Yeah. I left big gaps in the letters, so hopefully help hold it. Yeah. Mhm. We don't want this in there. All right. Now, I'm getting kind of excited now that I see the whole thing here. We've been trying to do a skeleton fortuner for quite a while, but it was so hard. We just didn't want him being a skeleton leaning on two pickets. That's way too boring. Or I saw a bunch. That's a head, the arms, and the legs. And then it says, "Welcome in the body. This didn't do it for me. I wanted something that could be a little spooky but kind of cute. Yeah, you could go either. Yes, you could go either way with this one. Whoa. You see that bubble pop out? No, I did not. I'll start the back right here. Will you paint the Okay. Will you paint the purple? We're applying our Twilight Train. Again, a couple of thin coats is better than one thick coat. And in between these, we used the hair dryer to give it a quick dry so we could keep painting. For the backer, we decided we wanted to add a little bit of interest. So, we painted it the purple color. Is this a Twilight Train? Mhm. And now we're just going to come in with some of that Midnight Bandit mask, the black. Roll it real quick. And while it's still wet, we're going to come in with the wood grain tool. 2 minutes. Give it some nice interest. It makes it look a little more high-end, too. It gives it a little more something other than just hand painted. Mhm. I mean, you can do it just in black and add the letters on it, but you know, you know us. Yeah. We love a good word grain. Got to make it extra. I'm not even going to do like a a good You're doing the whole the whole thing at one time. Not like these. Oh, you're just doing this half. Yeah. Stripe at a time. Uhhuh. Okay. All right. Still wet. Wood grain in it. I'm going to two-hand it just to keep it. Oh, yeah. Okay, I'm with you. Yeah. You liking that? I was hesitant on the I was like, look at that. I was looking looks like two pickets is what it's going to look like. Man, I love a wood grain. Yeah, it's going to look like two pickets. I'm not even going heavy with the paint. This pretty dry roller for me. I know. Put a little more paint on there. I think Oh, no. It'll be good. You don't need a lot. Coming right back in. He's making sure he's got all of the paint out of the grain. Yeah. I'm just doing a slow rock. Trying to get nice long grains. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Nice and spooky. Mhm. You know what you could have done? I am going to put glow-in-the-dark on the letters. Oh, yeah. We're glow. But I could have put some glow-in-the-dark before I wood grained, you know, so it kind of glows behind there. All right. I'm liking that. That looks great. That looks great. Now, we're going to do a quick coat of Foxy Fire and Ash Avenger on the skulls. And of course, I love my glow-in-the-dark. This thing's got to glow if it's going to go. Step four, time to assemble. We're going to use some of this Starbond thick and we're going to bring it all together. Now, if we were doing this on porch pickets, we would use wood glue to attach the MDF to the wood for fence picket. I said porch pickets. fence pickets, we would use wood glue to attach MDF to wood. But because this is an MDF backer, we can just keep using the Star Bond for the whole project. Now, for the backer piece, I'm going to try to hit all these meaty pieces to get the backer or the board piece to stick. Well, for the sign piece that's going to go on this backer here, we're just going to line it up at the corners. All four corners should just line up. And then we can barely see all of our score marks. So, we're just gonna try to line them up. I mean, the wood grain really made it hard to see the letters, but and the great thing is Garrett was able to connect all of these tiny little skull pieces together. So, it's really not too bad for a lot of little pieces turns into just a few like a dozen. Yeah. Yeah. You ready? Boom. There it is. Look at that. Now, I think the MDF will work fine. It will be fine. You know, I see MDF leaners in Michaels and Hobby Lobby all the time and they sell and this one's way cooler. This one's 3D. Most of theirs are just like printed. So, this one is this is just $10 worth of MDF. So, you you can make these and sell these 55 65. I think this guy would go 75. Well, he's 4footer. So, he comes up to about right here on me. Yeah. Right here. Let's drop him on the ground. Oh, about right here on me. There you go. Chest height. But man, does he look great. Oh, man. He looks good. Here. You want to hold them? Mhm. Well, I'm about out of time. I got to go pump out a couple of more of these money makers right here. You got to go cut your own and show me what you're working with. There's so many color options for this, too. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Big thanks to all of our patrons. We love you guys and that is the best way to support this channel. Join us over on Patreon where you get a little extra content. You get all of our SVGs for free and it's just a good time over there. This guy is begging to be balanced by his toe. Come on, Barry. Let's go. Oh, look at that. The symmetry. Whoa. Barry almost got away from us. This is berry bones.