 Welcome! We've been dying to show you how we make this Halloween porch cleaner and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do it though? Gonna make it soot-a-week and we have a new video each week. This week we're back at it with some more spooktacular fun for that front porch. Some more Halloween decor. Gotta pump it up. Yeah I can't have those candy cauldrons standing there all by themselves. Yeah they definitely need some more pop and maybe some more fright. So we're making a six foot tall coffin. It's like a front porch de-welcome sign, unwelcome sign, anti-welcome sign. It says we're dying to meet you so I think it's a welcome sign. I don't think people really want to approach a sign that says something like that. And we're gonna add some little accents to it. Garrett's found himself a speaker box that makes spooky sounds. So we will see what that ends up looking like. It is scary. Step one. We're gonna gather all of our supplies. We needed six six-foot fence pickets. The dog-eared kind. They're cheap. We love our fence pickets. We needed one 48 inch dog-eared picket. It's a little skinnier. It's like three and a half. Oh it's maybe it's like three and a half feet. Oh no no no. It's 48 inches so it's four feet tall and I think it's three and a half inches wide. Thanks. We needed some quarter inch MDF. We needed a hairy spider. A motion sensor voice box. We're gonna use some gorilla glue, some brad nails, and of course our Country Chic paint. And I think we're just gonna keep this in black and white. So I've got simplicity here and licorice here. We'll also be using a brad nailer, a miter saw, and a circular saw. Step two. We're gonna make our coffin door. We're gonna use four fence pickets. We're gonna attach them together with this 48 inch three and a half inch picket because we're gonna cut the coffin shape out of it. So it needs to be four pickets wide to start with. We're gonna cut this board in half. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think we should use the pocket saw to cut this one real quick. Super quick. Whip it out of my pocket, make my cut, put them back in. See if you first can. What I've learned by doing our porch leaners is you want to make sure that bottom is lined up. It doesn't matter if the top isn't quite the same height but if the bottom is off it'll lean. I had to have gear fixed on the other day because it won't pick it was shorter than the other and it was leaning. I just trimmed the bottom. Zippity-Zoo. All right. We're putting a few braces on the back. We're just gonna eyeball them. Looks like they're about 21 and a half from the bottom. Where are you? Just out of curiosity. How debt are you? I'm at like 20. 20 and a half. So I just wondered if you were... Oh and then I'm flipping it though so I'm less than that. Yeah. You're fancy with the swirls. That's just how I do. Okay so these are hanging over. Does that matter? Nope. We're good. We're gonna nail these with a one and a quarter inch brad. The nail. Not the guy. But I'm gonna try to stay away from the edges because we're gonna trim it down here in a second. Right. The sides of a coffin taper in. So we're gonna taper this from this picket all the way down. This one all the way down to two pickets at the bottom. You'll see here. So this is gonna get trimmed off anyway. I'm just gonna try to keep it inside. Towards the middle. Towards the inside. The middle ones though. I can just go hog wild and kind of attack them anywhere. Hog wild. Alright let's flip it. It's so pretty looking. Step three. We're gonna cut the coffin. Cut the coffin. We're gonna measure 16 inches down from the top. We're gonna mark the outside outer edge of that picket. Then we're gonna cut from that 16 inch mark up to the inside of that same picket and then down to the end to the inside of the bottom of the picket. That's gonna give you that angled look of that picket. Of that coffin look. Yes. Alright let's do it. I'm actually gonna start from the bottom of the dog ear. 16 down. Oh I hit right at the brace. I'm gonna use the fifth picket to draw out my lines. Now you're gonna hold something. I guess the other one's getting in this. I'm just excited to wear my glasses. I'm gonna have my glasses on so early. Yeah I know. I really like that look. I've been over here. It's been something on the board. Like seriously how else would that have been like that? Little drunk drawing Kim. Little drunk drawing. Drunk drawing. My gin. Yeah oh yeah. Now we're just gonna trim it out with our circular saw. Nice straight cuts. With a little straight cut stand. That's what I just named it. Straight cut stand. Everything's got a name. Kim says it's fine. I told you it's fine. It's fine. Look at it. That's cool. Step four. Now we're gonna cut the decorative braces that makes it look like we try to nail it shut. Keep whatever's in there in there. Yeah. Yeah. And then we'll be able to put some words on those braces that are trying to keep that monster in there, that beast. I'm gonna make all the cuts with my pocket saw again. Welcome back. Welcome back pocket saw. How often do you actually make two appearances? Alright we're just gonna cut 24 inch pieces out of these last two pickets. I'm gonna take this quarter inch MDF over to the Glow Forge and we're gonna cut out our words. And you don't necessarily have to make these words on the Glow Forge. You can always paint these by hand or draw them by hand. Or stencil them or vinyl. We have the options so that's what we're doing. I like the way they pop out. Looks like somebody gave effort into maintaining this beast. Nice and neat. Step five. Now we paint. We're gonna paint the coffin door a licorice black and then we're gonna paint these braces that are gonna hold that beast in there white. Yep. And then we're gonna make these words orange. Or purple. Or purple. Purple or orange. Opulence or persimmon. We'll see. We're gonna see what I'm feeling. Very opulence. The letters in opulence. I don't think you would do it. Six. It's time to assemble it. We're gonna bring it all together with this gorilla glue again. It's gonna take a minute to dry but I'm all out of my good stuff. So we got to glue the words onto the boards first. That way it's easier to see if they're lined up and straight. I did make all the letters touch so that I don't have to place. Yeah. Isn't this great? I don't have to place each individual letter. I just scooched everything together so. I love it. Yeah. Glue a few pieces. Not a million pieces. Coming through. Coming through. Cough and door. There are things to do all year round. All year round. Yeah. I know where he's going now. Scare the kids. Yes. I hide and scare the kids every day. It is my favorite thing to do. I will duck behind the counter and pop up. Give them a good old boo every day of the year. And then the elder they get the less entertaining it is. Yeah. The 14-year-old yesterday was like he dropped down. She walks in. He drops down behind the island so that he can scare her. But she saw him in a mirror this way. She said, oh no. Where is it? Yeah. He popped out of the scare. It's my favorite thing to do. But I like how she played along. Alright. Let's see where these go. Whatever daughters would just melt. Anytime I would pop up and scare. She just crumpled to the ground. Horrible firefly reflex. Yeah. He still did it. Yeah. Still do it. Still had to do it. What do you think? Think like that? This is too high. You need to stand on a stool over here and look at it this way. Give it a good old. Alright. This is too high. I bring this down a little bit. Yeah. Not quite that far. Just a little wee bit. Yeah. Perfect. Dying. Come down. Down. It's too crooked. Too crooked. Yep. Alright. Unless you want it all squinched up. Let me try it that way. Put weave in up a little. Just a wee bit and come bring it a little more crooked. Dying is too crooked. Still too crooked. Come down some. Come down some. Yeah. This looks like it's missing something down here though. But I feel like that's why there was a fifth one. I kept telling you there was a fifth one. He needs one more. Well remember we have accents to play in here. We got accents coming in. Alright. Well you come take a look. Maybe we want to space them out so that it gives room for the accents. That's popping. Yeah. I think that is great because we want to leave room for our spider. We got a hairy spider. We have a dropping spider. And we have some lights to put up in here. So I think this is a good spacing. Okay. If you lift I'll just put it under there. We're just going to glue it. No no no no. Alright. Quick quick quick. That's not dry. Oh you meant lift it vertically. Yes. Yeah. Like straight up. Alright. Now we're going to tack it with a one and a quarter inch brad. The nail. Not the guy. In an inconspicuous place. I'm springing that up a little bit. Yeah. That's what it was about. That's not going anywhere. Step seven. Look at that. Like 15 times. That was the best version. You're welcome. You are welcome. It's really just adding the hairy spider and then we're gonna try to figure out how to add this dropping spider. Ken picked him up on the way home yesterday. Yes. He's motion activated. So I thought it would be fun if we can crawl down the front of this but I think these little boards are gonna stop him so we'll have to figure that out. And then all of a sudden we're drilling lights. We're drilling little holes for lights. I also picked these up on the way home yesterday and I said you know what this thing needs? It needs a bunch of purple lights all up and down it. Now I know a coffin top wouldn't really look like that but this is supposed to be friendly scary. Friendly scary. So I want kids scary. Kids scary. Yes. So we're gonna add a bunch of purple lights so it glows. I think it'll be fun. What happened to the voice box? And the voice box is right here. And we picked up this voice box that's motion activated on Amazon for like 15 bucks so we put something scary on there. We'll figure out how to attach that thing too. But first I'm gonna take out the hairy spider and hit him with some glow-in-the-dark spray paint. You know how I love my glow-in-the-dark. Yes he absolutely does. Yeah. Alright this just in we're adding the lights but Kim decided we're gonna outline the coffin with the lights. I'm gonna drill a hole like every inch and a half and we're gonna plug it with a plug it with a light. Yeah I think it's gonna make it really cool to outline the whole thing in lights. Kim wants the light to poke through the board but not the base and the hole is just a little too small so we're gonna come in with a countersink bit to widen the back of the board. Alright let's see how that works. Did you just cross your fingers? Yeah it did. It's totally gonna work. On the outside edges now we're gonna poke these little purple lights through the back I'm gonna leave the plug at the bottom. Oh good idea. And then just one at a time I think we're just gonna poke them through. Yeah. Okay lesson learned. The spacing we have on our holes is larger than the spacing between each of these lights. I guess I should have checked that. I think it's like I don't know. These line up. Some of them line up perfectly. Some of them we might have to skip one. No big deal. It doesn't have to be perfect. Those have to be perfect. It doesn't have to. Nobody will ever be scared by shabby. Alright and so we're going to insert it and then add a little dab. Garrett's gonna burn himself by adding a little dab of hot glue in each one around the outside edges to make sure it stays in the hole. Around the inside? Around the inside? Yeah we're not gonna put it down in the hole because I don't want to ooze through the top if we can help it. Oh I'll put it down in the hole. While Harry's drying outside with his glue in the dark paint that's about six layers thick we are gonna attach this movable spider. He's motion activated and sound activated. We're gonna use this popsicle stick that I'm gonna hot glue at the top and then we'll hot glue his little ring to the popsicle stick. Then he'll hang over. I think you're gonna have to nail it. I don't know. I think the popsicle stick this one we're not sure about. It'll definitely hold it. Yeah I think so. But I don't know if the glue is going to hold the popsicle stick. Well I think it will. That takes a little pressure. We turn it this way and put it in between and it's got the whole popsicle stick to hold it. Okay but I agree. I agree. I like that. So we'll do it in between and we'll hold them like that. Okay let's try it. Let's see what we get. Do you want to make them go to see how much pressure? I'll just hold it with two fingers. That was a lot faster than I thought it would be. He's a slow climber though. Oh he's a slow climber. Well I get it. I'll be a slow climber too. All right I'll hot glue this in. You gotta finish this thing. Great idea. Yeah I'm just gonna add a little screw. I'm gonna try to put it behind the spider. Yeah so when he's hanging it'll be right about there. Yeah looks good. It's mostly dry. He looks way cooler now though. Dungeon spider. Looks less hairy. More dungeon-esque. Where's he going? At the bottom I think to fill up that empty space at the bottom. Is he climbing up or down or is he scurrying across? He's climbing up. Climbing up like right here? Yeah yeah. I think the the lights really set it off. Yeah and I love the addition of this little spider here because you can't really see this little thing straight on. Yeah and it'll drop right down. And it works out fine. It's been going off non-stop in an infinite leap since I brought it out a couple hours ago. I've already annoyed all of the kids with it. All right we are about out of time so if you're not joining us for the patron after-show we will see you next week where we'll do a building and make it again.