Homemade Picture Frames - 088

picture frames are one of those cool projects that uh you know you can really get creative with or you can be really simple with uh both of these frames were made from a single 8T 2x4 this one is going into a little boy room so it's a little bit more traditional looking and I just used A og bit to go all the way around both edges inside and outside and I've also mitered the corners this other one is a little bit more contemporary it's going into a little girls room and for the the frame construction I used a half flap joint because it was going to be painted very strong joint and I made a very high reveal all the way around the back side but to make these things they are very simple very easy to do all right so the first step in getting these things mounted is obviously I need some type of backing material and I just went through a scrap bin and found some 1/2 in plywood and cut it so there's about a 1 in overhang uh over the pattern for both pieces and I'm not going to attach these I'm going to wait until the very last step before I attach these to the backing material I've taken a single 2X4 and cut it down into eight pieces which will give me four sides per frame now most of this 2x4 was uh pretty crappy so what I'm going to do is I'm going to rip it to 2 in this way and about 1 and 1/8 this way that way I can cut off all the bad spots one of the frames is going to be a little bit more more traditional and one's going to be a little bit more contemporary now for the one that's going to be a little bit more traditional I'm just going to use an OG bit on both sides of the frame and then I'm going to miter the corners the bottom Inside Edge of all these uh frame pieces also needs a rabbit and I'm coming up a/2 in and over 38 of an inch now on this miter frame I've already cut my pieces to final length and typically that's not what you already do typically you want to do that on your miter sled but uh that's okay and I'm just going going to take my outside corner measurement and line it up with the Curve on my miter sled and cut all the parts in relation to that curve and it should be all [Music] [Music] right and here's what the more traditional frame was going to look like uh as you can see I used some scrap Lumber so I've got a little bit of cleaning up to do but I'm going to go ahead and glue it all together now and let this sit in this band clamp for a little while and while it's sitting I can work on the other one and once you have it all together you can tighten it up slightly you don't want to tighten it up too much cuz it'll start to Bow a little bit in places you really don't want it to Bow the second frame is going to be joined together with a half flap joint it's very strong very quick and very easy to do uh the way I'm cutting this is with my datal blade on the table saw however you could cut it with a single blade cut here and then a single blade cut there so you don't necessarily have to have a DAT blade in order to make a half flap joint a little bit of glue on each piece and spreading it around making sure we do get the shoulders of the joint and with the glue spread on all the joints we can simply put it all together relatively easy and I like to clamp everything together like so and then on each joint now I'm not putting a lot of clamping pressure on these uh directions here but what I will do is flip this thing over and now I've got access to put the clamps on the actual joint themselves with frame number two in the clamps we can now work on frame number one that's already been glued up I've got a little bit of glue squeeze out here on top of my joints obviously this is got some overspray from a previous project I've already cleaned up these outside corners uh with a uh just a chisel scraping off the glue squeeze out that I had just a little bit and I didn't put any glue near the interior Corners cuz I didn't want to worry about squeeze out and I don't have any here so I'm just going to take a palm sander and clean these top surfaces and I like to use a piece of carpet pad below to kind of hold everything from sliding around there's no real super awesome way to show this on camera but to sand all these Corners nice and smooth I'm just using a piece of 220 grit uh random orbital paper and just kind of Folding It In My Fingers to get around these Corners nice and nice and neat the best I can with all the corners cleaned up I'm just doing the same thing with my 220 grit sandpaper on the profile itself I'm still waiting for those half laap joints to dry so I might as well take advantage of the time and go ahead and stain this one I'm just using some over early American Minwax thing and now I can take a fresh Rag and wipe off all the excess taking a half flap frame out of the clamps and I just ran it through my table saw uh just removing a very slight amount to clean up these outside edges nice and smooth the inside edges uh I don't I don't particularly see any glue out that I need to be concerned with or glue squeeze out that I need to be concerned with the uh top joints are not exactly perfect so I'm just going to sand them smooth real quick the inside of this frame needs a rabbit that is going to accept the panel that sits in place and to do so I've just installed a 1/2 in by 3/8 in rabbiting bit and I'm just going to scraddle the bit and work my way [Music] around and of course because I used a round bit I'm going to have to come back and square off these Corners I've taken the frame it's all sanded up nice and smooth and the rabbit is on this side facing this way and I've clamped it to a piece of 2x stock that will rest flat up against the top of my fence and I've tilted the blade to about 35° and this is going to give me a nice steep chamfer all the way around so that worked out pretty well um looking at the frame that's what you're going to see up against the wall it's going to have a a shadow reveal all the way around the back of it so I really like that angle turned out pretty good and uh this is going to get painted but if it wasn't that would make for an interesting looking joint if you were to stain it last night I sprayed about three coats of lacquer on here and came back with some real fine uh gray finishing pad and just cleaned it up took off all the little Burrs you know dust in the air and what what I'm left with is more of a satin finish but it's really smooth so I'm going to leave it now I need to fit the panels to go on the inside and when I initially cut these it was just rough measurements and uh just to get a idea of what size frame I needed to make now I need to figure out the actual size that I need this panel to be uh keeping in mind that I am wrapping fabric around so that's going to take up a little bit more space and cut and fit both of these into place this is the more traditional looking frame frame and the more contemporary frame I ended up going with red uh I said I was going to do white but when I went to reach my white spray paint I found some red and uh one of the horses that's going to go I think yeah I think the horse right in the middle is red anyway so it kind of make it look like it's matching the theme so um red for the more contemporary looking frame and the traditional stained frame as well so let me get these panels cut and start stapling the material to it to fit the material onto the plywood itself I'm just setting it face up and trying to go for a symmetrical overhang on all sides and then this Frame should fit snug over that plywood if all goes well I should have an equal symmetrical Gap all the way way across now I can gently pull it from the bottom side to get it exactly where I want it now this panel fits into the frame pretty securely but just to just to hold it a little bit tighter I'm going to put four Staples on either side and straddle half onto this plywood backing and half into the frame itself and the more contemporary frame is done in the same way just line everything up and see how it all fits together we're just going to secure this all the same way we did same way we did the other one now I'm probably using more Staples than what's necessary but but oh well and just like the more traditional frame uh the Contemporary frame just stapled across in the back and a Sawtooth hanger and that's it quick and easy and uh hopefully she'll enjoy and here they are done very easy to make this was a fun little project that I did a little bit of experimenting with and uh great learning experience so anyway I hope you've enjoyed if you like what you see like And subscribe and you guys have a great day