 Everyone or one of our top five tools are to do a build and make it. We're gonna show you what they are right now What is up welcome back doing to do the build and make it a great That's what we do in this channel every week this week. We're doing a little viewer mail We get a lot of questions. We've gotten a lot of questions We got a lot of questions about tips or tricks or tools that we use So we decided to take our time and give you our top five tools And they're top five viewer questions disclaimer We are not sponsored by any of the brands you see today tool number one our drill our drill is our screwdriver Our sand or a buffer or cutter this thing does all kinds of things But mainly we use it as a screwdriver Second area is a drill. Yep. I'd say for us and what we do it's mostly used as a screw gun So if you're putting screws in to the little wood projects that we do This is what you need. It's way better than Hand screwing. Yeah, it's way better than a hand drill way better tool number two is our nail gun This is Brad's favorite tool might be my favorite tool. It is his favorite tool You may not have a battery powered one, but the battery powered one is great because it's super mobile But a pneumatic nail gun any nail gun is great I have a pneumatic one before we went with this one this one We're able to do the whole shiplack ball with one battery. It was great. It was a time saver and it's Light enough for anyone to use. It's a little bit heavy But it's still light enough that I can use it and he can use it He uses it most often because I try and keep him busy during the filming Let's see how it is Tool number three Saw. Saw is super important for any wood project. Yeah, we use a miter saw. We use a circular saw But you can use a jigsaw for any of our projects Any projects that we've done in the past year this jigsaw could have done them all now I really recommend that the miter saw but if you had to start with one I'd say the jigsaw would do like he said most of what you needed to do. It's easy to use Pretty versatile. Tool number four hot glue gun The glue gun is my favorite tool. What's great about this thing is there's no cord I love the fact that you can put the battery in the bottom of it and use it Garrett can't handle the glue gun He seems to put his fingers in it. I don't understand why I can't keep his fingers out of the hot glue But that is a thing for him. Anyway, the same battery is used for this thing. This one's new for us, but I love this thing I hate that thing. I burn myself all the time Tool number five a vinyl cutter for a platter cutter, whatever you call it We use the Cricut Yes, specifically this Cricut maker because it has the adaptive tool system So I know you've seen us build lots of different projects And we use lots of different little blades or tools that come with it So this fine point blade comes with it and it's used for cutting your typical vinyl heat transfer vinyl But it also has a rotary blade which would be used for fabrics or the deep-cut blade or What else this knife blade which is used for chipboard? And then we have two new blades that we haven't even had a chance to make a project with yet And that would be the engraving tool and the scoring wheel This thing is great. I can't tell you how many projects most of our projects Most of our projects have been made with this Cricut maker. I love it. Any project that had a design on it Was probably done with the Cricut. Right stencils, t-shirts, t-shirts, you know, all of them Yeah, wood burning. We used it for wood burning all kinds of things. When you do go off and start collecting your tool set We would say pick a brand so that you can use the same battery in all of your tools Bonus tool number six Now this one we really couldn't agree on now. I felt like it might be the heat gun Because we used it for wood burning drying the paint Melting things but I think It's got to be the heat press you can't hardly have a Cricut without having some sort of a heat press That's true now. We did have the big claim show one But I might have knocked that off the table two or three times He did on to the wood floor. It was not pretty and it became a challenge for us personally to store it We don't have a very big studio here. It's actually a tiny little room and we didn't have a great place to store it but this Easy press is easy to store. I can store it right here in my little tabletop Well, that's our top five tools like if you dropped us on a desert island With this tool set the drill The nail gun the jigsaw hot glue gun and a Cricut and a power source We should be able to craft our way out of that one for sure We're also going to answer our top five viewer questions. I'm the one that answers all the comments on our videos If you see a really dry answer, it was probably Garrett's He's very short to the point So I typically answer all the questions and so I thought I would answer those on our video today So question number one And we got this a lot last week, too When we made our Christmas front porch sign how to ungroup an SVG So I'm going to show you in design space how to do that real quick And right now the image is already grouped So the first thing we want to do is ungroup our image and then you'll just group the images that you want to fit 24-inch map up to 23 and a half inches So we'll select all of these We'll hold down the control key And keep selecting until we're close to 24 inches I think if we select the Y will be over 24 So we'll just go ahead and group these images and Attach them so that Now we can print just that group grouped images on three 24-inch mats question number two our trick for painting on wood When you're using a stencil or creating a stencil and putting it on wood Our number one tip is to add this Mod Podge first thing you want to do is put your vinyl stencil down Add the Mod Podge let it dry then add your paint that way It doesn't bleed under the stencil if you're using wood glass metal This will seal it so it doesn't bleed under there It is definitely a huge lesson learned for us huge lesson learned question number three. What kind of paint do we use? Chop paint. Yes. I love this stuff. I hate to paint, but I love chalk paint as you know I say it over and over again. Garrett is the worst painter, but what's so great about this chalk paint is It's super versatile and hides most of your flaws. It dries quickly It dries super fast. Some of us are impatient. I would say that's both of us We mentioned the heat gun. Yeah, I use the heat gun and the chalk paint all the time moving right along That's our projects dries it quickly But yes, I would highly recommend chalk paint But if you're gonna use it outdoors you want to add the poly acrylic on top of it because it does Absorb moisture quickly. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You gotta seal it. Question number four Can you really assemble those wood projects with glue? Yes, you can this gorilla glue So we used it on a couple of our projects. I think we use it on our Merry Christmas front porch welcome sign It's been sitting out there for a couple of months. No issues. It really is a great Super versatile glue. So yeah It will puff up and it gets in those cracks and crevices and really binds that material together And if you get that squeeze out on the sides, it's pretty easy to chip off and then sand up and get going again Yep, let it dry pop it right off, but two hours with this stuff is just like nails Just like nails. So if you don't have this fancy nail or yet, this is a great substitute in the interim Little clamp little gorilla glue bam question number six Question number five We've done a lot of videos on sublimation and here recently We've done some tricks with how to sublimate with cotton t-shirts because you can't always or don't always want to use a high acrylic content shirt So we've shown some tips on how to sublimate on glitter heat transfer vinyl So you do want to use the glitter? I don't think it'll work on regular vinyl We haven't really tried it but the reason why it sublimate to glitter vinyl is because it will bond the sublimation ink will bond with their little crystals on The glitter heat transfer vinyl you can use any kind I haven't tried it with any other colors with white But you can use this rainbow white which I have in my hand or just straight white or silver white Any of them it will bond to now you do it just like you would regularly do a Glitter vinyl t-shirt So you put down your base glitter vinyl heat transfer For 15 seconds to get it to stick and then you would sublimate on that glitter vinyl Just like you would typically sublimate on any surface So mirror the image and apply it with heat whatever the recommended heat is for that ink and paper that you're using and it bonds right to these little Glitter crystals Thanks for joining us for our video today If you have any tools that you would recommend put them in the comments below or if you have additional questions Put them in the comments below where I'm happy to answer them Kim answer And just like always if you like this video hit that like button and if you're not yet subscribed We do a project every week and you should join us hit that subscribe button Take that bell to be notified of our new videos each week and we'll see you guys next week