 We just made this portable check-out counter for our craft booth and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do it builder or make it? So do we and we have a new video each week. This week we're checking out something cool. Well it's actually just a check-out stand for our craft booth. Yes we have three weeks and counting to the farmers market. We have two weekends left, three full weeks and we've already done our backdrop. So next booth item is our check-out stand. So we've been online, we found some ideas. This is the moneymaker right here. Yeah yeah that's what it is. We've found some ideas but we think we can do it cheaper faster. Cheaper like almost free. Yeah like almost free. Almost free. So we're gonna we're gonna give it a go and we're gonna make our check-out stand. Step one we're gonna gather all the materials. We really just needed this project panel. It's 16 by 36, a 1 by 2, some hinges and now we're going on a scouting mission to find two pallets. Two suitable pallets. We think that the pallets will be the faster cheaper version so we've we've seen some pallets like down the road. Down the street, around the corner, in the cold sec. Yes that I think we can utilize for this project and it looks like they're about the right height. I think I'm gonna have Garrett cut off a little bit and then we want to make this thing foldable so we are gonna cut one pallet into two pieces and put the hinges on it and make it collapsible. Yeah so that's our plan. Let's go find our pallets. Let's go find the pallets. Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. We're really just gonna go down and cut up the pallet. We're gonna make it 36 inches tall, 32 inches wide and then the other pallet we're gonna make 36 inches tall and 12 inches wide but I am not lugging them up here so that I could tell you guys that and then take them back downstairs so I'll meet you back downstairs. Halfway through our cuts Kim decided that this is going to be too heavy to lug in and out and set up if she had to do it by herself she said there's no way she'd be able to carry a two pallets. Well yeah so I was on my lunch break and I came out here as he was cutting these and I thought this is a four by four and when I go to lift this thing it's very heavy. She's got a mini hernia. Well and I know we're gonna put two sides on it too so like this might become a side and I'm gonna add another one. So he's gonna cut this piece off right here so it's only what is this 36 inches yeah and then he's gonna add the two sides so it will stand up and once you add essentially this back on and another side I just don't think it's gonna be easy to try and even know how to lift it up and then get it in and out of the car every weekend. So how are we gonna pull these off and then put them on pickets or am I just gonna go get some pickets and build a scratch. Well is this the pickets are so easy I say get it to get it get pickets because you guys might not necessarily have a pallet to start with but if you do you can pry these off and use these as pickets for the front of yours or you can just go get the two dollar pickets from the home improvement store which I think will save you a lot of time because kind of a lot of work to pull these things off right and reuse them. Yeah I guess so. I mean they pretty much look like a picket so I don't think you're losing any real antique yeah yeah yeah exactly perfect. So we're gonna take a detour and we're gonna come back. Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies we're gonna try it again we really just needed a one by two eight foot long a project panel 16 by 36 some hinges I got four of them because they're making it collapsible. Hingy type and then we needed eight pickets the dog-eared pickets they're five by five six foot tall they are way cheaper than like the planks or the two by fours so still cheap just not borderline free. Yeah yes at two dollars each that makes it what 16 dollars that's not too bad. Yeah not too bad. I think it was only like a dollar eighty or something like that. Oh even better. Yeah. Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts we're gonna cut ten of these pickets down to 36 inches two pickets at 32 and a quarter inches and they're gonna be used as cross braces right they're gonna be used to kind of hold the pickets onto something four pickets down to 12 inches one by two at 36 inches and then two pieces of one by two down 15 and three eighths of an inch. And these are going to be mounted underneath the project panel it's going to help hold the top on so it doesn't slide around we're not going to attach the top to the what is it the base the yeah yes half square we're not going to attach the top to the base but we are going to set it on there but we don't want it to slide around while we're working so we're going to yes it's just going to put a little frame on the lip on the inside and then we should have a little bit of scrap like six inches we're just going to cut that in half again use it on the inside of the lip so it just won't move around and we're going to make all of these cuts with my pockets I carry this guy everywhere with me and he's seen a lot of action lately like a lot of action so busy he's been coming in hitting some big stuff lately he's getting really getting really beefy getting bulky practice it is assembly we're just going to take this a 32 inch board and lay it across all of the 36 inch boards and then we're going to screw it down using an inch and a quarter screw self tapping so we don't even have to drill pilot holes yeah I'm hoping you can see that all six of the 36 inch boards are just all lined up here one right next to the other yeah we got the bottoms lined up face down so the good the good face is down this is all the trash inside it's not that bad now we're gonna we're gonna put one brace 12 inches from the top and the other brace 12 inches from the bottom and we're gonna kind of give them a little space here we're gonna use these 12 inches as a spacer make sure we got it centered all right you all lined up down there all right you said 12 inches though are you looking to oh maybe that's too close yeah let's go six inches how about that yeah six inches from the top six inches from the bottom it's going too deep yeah it just needs to be able to fold out all right we're good all right i'm gonna start with the ends screws because we're planning to assemble and disassemble this each week we're trying to make this collapsible so it's not going to stay there it's not going to be a permanent thing so we didn't want to just put some brad nails in there brad won't be able to hold them yep so we're going to use these screws and he's trying these new star tip screws added four to each end because this is where we're going to mount the hinges and it's going to get a lot of that pressure these are the pressure points yeah i just want to make sure that will hold oh we got it oops you know square it up did Kim screw it to the table no it went deep anyway like it went down in there pickets are softer than you would think now i'm gonna have to fill this hole really fix it up yeah that four by four in the palette was just i think that was just making it was just even heavier now we're gonna do the sides so which are the backs now we're just gonna line these up with the edge and we're gonna need one to measure up from the bottom go back in there make sure it's deep don't pick it pieces all pick it back together see this side that side and then a bit front face inside that's super light we're just going to use these little four inch strap hinges with the inch and a quarter screws again what do you call them strap hinges is that what they're called yeah that's what they're called all right just made it up i'm pretty sure that's what they're called all right you're going to use the same screws yeah screws everywhere we're gonna take this top and put those one by twos we'll put the one by twos around it like a little frame to help hold it we're gonna do it from the top down so we're just gonna scooch this up underneath the board with a little bit of glue on it and use a one and a quarter inch bread through the top to pin it together the nail not the guy all right just gonna slip it up under here we're just gonna use the 15 and 3 eighths inch boards on that on the sides the bottom side of the top that's the top side of the top and let's see if it fits we'll fit it in upside down and laying down i think this hinges out all right so this board right here is bowed pretty good and so is this one like they're almost concave so through the measurements so so i'm gonna just take a little shade like a little half inch off this board using the circular saw these inside braces we're just gonna trim those and make them smaller so that this fits in a little tighter get a little smooch how to get it stayed we use briar smoke on the wall our wall panels behind us in the booth so i think i'm gonna use briar smoke on this as well so i'm just gonna give it a coat of stain wipe it off and then i'm gonna add our paint technique on top same technique as uh as the backdrop so they match yes cohesiveness yes you can't even believe how well this thing is gonna match it's gonna look like an outdoor store it is it is this is a scraper we're gonna paint it with that same scraping technique we used in the last two videos we want it to all look consistent but we have a problem i couldn't find the metal scraper so we're gonna try to use a plastic scraper and we're down to nubbins on the paint i don't know if we have enough to cover it it's gonna be tight i think i think we'll be okay but we'll just have to give it a try and see we'll we'll doctor it up until it looks the same-ish easy to set up kim could carry in and out nice and easy portable making collapsible yeah stowable stowable all those other words that mean uh transportable there you go more of bull's moves all right we're 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 it build it and make it again i can bounce