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We Moved! New Homestead Shop Tour - Before

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We Moved! New Homestead Shop Tour - Before
We moved from our old one acre home in West Haven Utah, to our new 6 acre homestead in Lebanon, Illinois. This is a quick tour of my new workshop before doing the build inside.

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Watch Me Make a Cutting Board

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Watch Me Make a Cutting Board
This time around on our YouTube channel, I switched it up a little from the tutorial style I was doing before. This time I invite you to watch me make myself my first ever cutting board.

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How to Make a Miter Saw Station

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How to Make a Miter Saw Station

In this video, we show you how we replaced our contractor stile miter saw stand and large sliding miter saw with a DIY miter saw station. The miter saw station was based off the plans we purchased from Jay Bates, with ideas from Caleb Harris at You Can Make This Too (both linked below,) with a few tweaks of our own. Here are some of the parts we used in the build: (3) 6 Pairs 24” Full Extension Drawer Slides: https://amzn.to/32yYr47​ (1) 4 Pack 48” T-track: https://amzn.to/3jv9ukW​ (1) T-track Hardware and Knobs: https://amzn.to/3jhzFLI​ (1) Starrett Right to Left Adhesive Backed...

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How to Make a Rustic Barn Door

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How to Make a Rustic Barn Door

In this video, we show you how we built a barn door for our shop bathroom. We went super simple and used a left over piece of galvanized roofing from an old chicken coop when we moved in and some scrap 1x4 and 1x6 lumber cleaned up on the planer. Emily applied a single coat of stain and Alex hung it on the locally sourced barn door hardware. This went super quick and easy. Total cost was $50 plus tax for the barn door hardware, and $0 for the scrap lumber and galvanized. We then splurged on some black iron...

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How to Make 2x4 End Grain Floors

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How to Make 2x4 End Grain Floors

In our first video, we show you how we cut and installed 2x4 flooring in our shop bathroom for less than $80. Our total investment was about 6 hours of labor including cutting the 2x4s, organizing them, installing, sanding, and applying the polyurethane. Our space was a little over 6' by 7' or 42 square feet. This is a great, cheap DIY option for where imperfection is perfection (like in a workshop!) Materials Used: Roberts 1407 Flooring Adhesive: https://amzn.to/2AOiDDr​ Minwax Polyurethane For Floors: https://amzn.to/30WnvkD​   Please subscribe, and turn on notifications! We look forward to making more great content! Thanks!...

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