Wood Art Easel DIY Plans With Adjustable Tray

Hi I'm Eric spenceley today, I'm gon na show you guys how we built this art easel on spenceley design, Co. We picked up this maple board from our local hardwood dealer. If it is an S to us, meaning it's been surface on both the top and the bottom, but since we don't have a jointer, we also asked them to flatten one edge for us too, since the outside edges are very rough, as we break down the pieces Into the rough size, we won't remind you that we have a free cut list available on our website, linked in the description below. So you can build this for yourself, but if you don't have a large maple board like this, you can definitely do this entire project. Using 2x4 lumber from your local home center, too, we used our circular saw and speed square to cut our pieces down the rough length and use the crosscut sled on our table saw to clean up the ends, since the table saw will give a much better surface Finish than the circular saw under well, once the pieces were cut to length we prepped our table saw to rip down the three legs. Our first pass was slightly larger than our desired width, so we could come back with another pass and clean up the edge. Now eight quarter, maple like this, is incredibly hard to cut. You have to feed it. A lot slower on a contractor table saw like we have here so just be careful and make sure that you have a super clean and super sharp blade after the first pass. We adjusted our fence over the final width and made one more pass on each leg, and since this isn't taking as much material off the cut is much easier will produce a much better surface finish what we finished cutting these legs. We want to remind you to hit that like button below and let us know what you think of this easel down in the comments to cut the taper onto the legs. We grabbed a small piece of scrap o2 and adjusted. Our miter gauge for our table saw 210 degrees and made a small cut on the scrap. We then brought the scrap piece over to two of our legs and marked where we wanted to cut them back at the table, saw we grabbed our tapering jig, which we have a whole video showing how we made it linked in the cards above and line the Marks we made with the edge of the jig and after tightening the like down. He ran it through our table, saw to heat up a perfect taper and make sure to keep those cut off pieces, though we'll need them in just a minute. With the tapers cut. We made marks where we need to drill a hole for the bolt and hey if you made it this far on a build. You must like it. So do us a favor and hit that subscribe button below now. Only does that help us to produce more of these awesome videos for free, but YouTube will make sure that you never miss any of our future projects thanks, we use the scraps from our tapered cut, to create a flat surface to drill in to use our pocket Hole drill bit to go all the way through the maple and the step line would have been easier on a drill press, but since we don't have one at a time, the cordless drill will have to work just fine to hold everything. Together, we used a hex bolt two washers and a nut for the end. Just slide the washer over the bolt insert it through the three legs. Add another washer and lock it all in place with the nut. You can now see that the legs pivot with ease now onto the canvas tray. We follow the same process as before, where you rip down the pieces to rough width on the first pass and then made a second pass to bring everything down to the exact dimensions. To create the recessed portion of the tray, we need to hog out the middle of this piece. Now, if you have a set of dado blades your table saw or even a router table, you could done this a lot faster, but since we don't we're, just gon na take about 25 passes with a regular table, salt lake and after each pass, we move the Fence over about 1/16 of an inch until the middle was removed. The only problem is this left a very rough surface, so we'll have to go and sand that down before finishing, we just finished cutting the horizontal canvas tray and I think it's a little too big. So we're actually gon na do we're gon na go off the plans I had made and we're gon na cut a little bit off of this edge here, but don't worry the plans that we have online are updated. Well, somehow we lost the footage of the first cut, but here's the second pass, where we got it down the final dimension that we wanted. We grabbed our drill with a bit that was just slightly larger than our bulb and clamped the two pieces together after drilling a small pilot hole, we used a block of wood to help hold the drill straight and drilled through the two pieces, making sure the scrap Block was underneath to help prevent any tear-out and with those holes drilled, you can easily slide the bolt through them to hold them together. To finish everything up, we used a quarter inch roundover a bit in our cordless router to jazz up the edges and, honestly, if you're still watching. you could check here think you owe it to us to hit that thumbs up button below thanks, oh yeah. This gets super messy. So wear a respirator and make your lung smile. After we tossed a few coats of water-based polyurethane on to protect the wood. We could assemble it. The tray works with a friction of it. Wear a wing. Nut is tightened on each side to provide enough pressure to keep the tray from moving. This design works great because you can easily raise and lower the canvas to your desired height, whether you're, sitting or standing. The very last thing that we needed to do was attach a chain to keep the back leg from potentially sliding out during use. We grabbed some hooks and chain from our home center and first pre drilled a small hole and came back to twist the hook in. We put the hooks on both the back of the tray and the center leg and with the hooks twisted in, we could attach the chain and we intentionally left the chain long. So it has plenty of room to be maneuvered depending on the height of the canvas tray and with that the back leg was secured and this bad boy was finished. Well. We really hope that you loved this project. It'S a little bit different than some of the other things we usually make for some furniture, but it was a lot of fun and we hope this video inspired you to make your own easel. If you don't have solid maple lumber like we do here, you can always use something like a 2x4 it'll work, great too. We cannot wait to deliver this project to our client, as we know, they're gon na absolutely love this as a Christmas gift. Now, if you want to check out some of the other projects that we've made in the past check out these two over here and if you want stay subscribed to our channel, so you never miss any of our builds in the future. If this button right down here, thanks guys