 We just made these three levels of lanterns easy, easier, and easiest, and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back! Do you like to do a builder make it? We do too. We have a new video each week. This week, we're shining light on an old project. We're doing three levels of lanterns. We're going to do a level like very little woodworking skills. A second level where you need to be able to do some kind of woodworking. And then the third level, no woodworking. Yes, these are four years. So what we were thinking is now we've entered into November and we're starting to look towards I know we've already done some Christmas because Christmas is coming early for everyone this year, I think. So we've entered November and so I thought we'd start looking forward to Thanksgiving and what can we do for Thanksgiving because we're all gathered together this year, but in our smaller pods. We usually have a giant Thanksgiving. I think we had 24 people last year. It's a really large group, but this year, I'm not sure that's going to be the case. Yes, we still have two still at home. I think there's going to be four for Thanksgiving this year. Well, he doesn't know this, but I think we're going to, two of the others are going to come too. But anyway, I want to make three lanterns for our table. Small, medium, large, easy, easier and easiest. Lantern number one, step one. We're going to gather all of our supplies. First, we needed a vase. So we went to the Hobbs Lobby. He always calls it the Hobbs Lobby. I can't even get it out. So we basically collected all of our materials from Hobby Lobby. We were trying to make this pretty simple. We didn't start out that way, but as we walked around, we found all kinds of goodies that we could use to build this lantern. These are seven by seven pre-routed boards, you see. And I think you could use that as the base and as the top. And then for the top, I'm going to use a stacked or layered routed boards as well. So this is a five by five set, and those are four by four. So that, that. And then I found this little topper here. It's just a finial, curtain finial, and I thought we could put that as the top. And then the sides and the edges will be this three quarter inch dowel. Yeah, three quarter by three quarter inch square. Step two, we're going to make all of our cuts. It's pretty easy. It's going to be like four cuts. Do we want to measure that? Yes. So we also picked up these little bases from Hobby Lobby. Measure that right there. Okay. And so we're going to build this one to kind of meet the specs of this. So that's 10 inches. Oh, that's nine and a quarter. Nine and a quarter inches. I don't know if you guys saw the other day. But me and the pocket saw went out for a whole day. There you go. All right. Cut in two at a time. Now we're just going to assemble it. A little bit of glue, a little bit of nails, two little frames, inch and a quarter brad. Vase number one done. What did that take? Like 10 minutes? Yeah. With that. All right. We'll set this one aside for paint. Looks cute. I like it. Lantern number two. Step one. We're going to gather all of our materials. We again at Hobby Lobby picked up some one by ones. Then we got a piece of trim that we're going to make X's in our lantern. A quarter by one. Yeah. It's like half by three quarter. Oh, okay. Half by three quarter. One by two. Just to help with the frame. A one by six. We really just need six inches of this one by six. And a one by eight. We just needed two pieces that are one by eight by eight. A little piece of a two by four. Like square. We're just making everything squared off. Glue, nails. You know the whole shebang. Step two. Look really cool in your glasses. Oh, yeah. Step three. Make all of your cuts. We're just going to cut the one by six to, you know, six inches by six inches. The one by eight to eight by eight. Yeah. We're just squaring everything off. Everything's getting up. Everything's getting a square. And now we're going to assemble it. Again, same as the first one. A little bit of glue, a little bit of brad nail. And we're just making some frames and then pinning those frames together. Using our little one by twos. And our one by one. We've got our two frames. Now we're going to make some X's. So in theory, the easy way to cut this trim is to lay this frame over it and see where it goes and just mark it. Cut it any way you don't have to figure out angles or anything. So we have our frame all together for this one. We're just going to make these X's on two sides so I can get the candle holder and the vase in and out of here. So we're going to put the, this is the bottom, I guess. The one by eight. Yeah. And screw in the middle until the paint dries. Thank you. Did that crack the two by four? Yeah. We're just going to leave it right there. Okay. Let's just leave it right there. Lantern number three. Step one, we're going to gather all of our materials. We needed a vase and some MDF. This one's an easy one. That's it. That is it. And some paints if you want to paint. Step two, we're going to make all of our cuts. Going to take the MDF over to the glow forge and cut out my lantern. Yeah. Now we're going to assemble it. Just putting it together. It's like a puzzle. Here's my bottom piece. Here's my sides. My sides with the tabs. The top. So you can reach in and grab stuff. The other top. That's all top pieces. What's nice about this one is the top will be removable. So you'll access the vase from top down rather than having to slide it in. This one has all four sides. All right. This is how we found the best way to assemble. Do the bottom and the top on one of the sides. And do the other side. Matching. No tabs. Now the tabs. Now I'm putting the little, I don't know, these things are braces. Yeah. Bell tower. I don't know. Into this little top that has slots. Now I'm putting them into the other top. The window top. Now you put the topper and the little topper piece holder. Done and done. Now it just needs to go to paint. Which one do you think was the easiest? My vote glow forge hands down. No glue. No real cutting. Yeah. That I had to do. Just snapped it together. Bim bam. Yeah. That was definitely the easiest. This one was pretty easy. Run her up. Yep. Purchased all these little pieces. Just stacked them and glued them. Four cuts. Just a little nail to make the frame. But other than that, it was good to go. That was super easy. Pretty easy. This one wasn't too bad either. The only challenging part was to do these X's. And it just took a little bit more time. But the frame itself, it was easy. Nothing that a little wood glue couldn't fix. Yeah. A little wood filler. Wood filler. Yeah. Wood filler looks amazing. So we added the X's only on two sides so that you could slide the little vase in here. I love them. I think they look great. And I'm totally going to put them on our Thanksgiving table. Oh, yep. That's right. Speaking of Thanksgiving, we're about out of time. So we're going to go hit the after show and then dinner. And we'll see you next week where we'll do a builder to make it again. And I'm going to try to balance this jam right here. With the pack. This time with a better outcome. We will have this lantern in our store. So if you go to... Not this one. If it breaks. Oh. K and G make it. K and G make it. K and G make it. Those almost lights out for that guy. Look how well it held together even after you grabbed the top. Yeah. Not bad.