 The solar powered house number planter box. Ooh, solar powered. It sounds fancy now. We just made this planter box with a post for our house numbers and we use the glow forge to cut out some Acrylic and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back? Do you like to do it builder make it? Of course you do. That's why you're watching and these cool cats No, we do it every Friday this week. We're making a planter with a post for our house letters goes in the back Yes, so we've had challenges with some of our delivery drivers We have our house faces the road and our garage faces an alley and sometimes the GPS either takes you down the front Or it takes you down the back and we've had so many deliveries when they come down the back There's no way to tell which house is which they just get close and they drop off our stuff With home Depot, we found an order two days later three houses down Just sitting in their driveway. We had to go like eight o'clock at night with a dolly to pick it up We look a little shady and then groceries they will say oh, they've been delivered And then you have to find well, they'll send you a picture sometimes and you just basically have to find where it is It could be a neighbor's house. They could be just behind the garage and we didn't know they were back there So what we want to do is put this little planter on either side of the garage That has our house number so that they can figure out where to drop off the groceries Or our deliveries or whatever it's not this cruel game of where's Waldo with our food Step one we're gonna gather all our supplies we borrowed these plans from Tabitha at fresh mommy blog and There were some tweaks From Amy at homemade Haven so we use both of theirs to come up with our version and we have tweaked it even further so Just some tips and tricks But these will get you started and I'll put a link to these in our description We need a one two by two one two by four, but not even like the whole thing You could probably just get a four foot four one by four's a four by four That's the most expensive thing in the car a piece of scrap plywood three-quarter inch We're gonna put a cap on ours. That's got a solar light in it and a hanger for our house numbers Step two now we're gonna make all of our cuts We're gonna cut these one by fours down to 15 and three-quarter inches We're gonna need 16 of them and then we're gonna cut the two by two down to 15 inches We're gonna need four of those So we're not gonna make all of our cuts, but most of our cuts And how do you think we should make these cuts? What tool should we use? I'm gonna use my pocket saw This joke getting worn out it's getting old Kim said maybe I should retire this joke about my pocket So I still think it's funny To make all of our cuts and to make sure these cuts are uniform We're going to put up a stop block at 15 and three-quarter inches I don't have an arm on my miter saw long enough I'm going to clamp my miter saw down to the bench and then I'm going to clamp my Stop block down to the bench at 15 and three-quarter inches away Step three Now we're gonna assembly. We're gonna start by making the four sides At first we're gonna have to put a whole bunch of pilot holes in there so that we don't split the wood and we're gonna counter sink them With this pilot hole countersink bit like two on each board First we have to measure it out. Just line up a bunch of them Gonna take one of the other boards Line it up right on the edge Draw a faint little line and I got these little scraps from when I made all these cuts I'm just gonna use this. I'm gonna place it at the top of each board Show where it crossed the line At the bottom of each board show where it crosses the line on the other side of each board We're gonna Stack those two pieces of scraps place them at the edge and Draw a line and do the same with the little piece of scrap Top and bottom Use sides from the other ones to space them out Lining up the edge, then I'm gonna come in with those shallow pilot holes I'm gonna screw those down to the two by twos and we're gonna semi assemble it Just so that we'll know how to cut the top because we got to do a miter cut on the top So we're just gonna mock assemble it Just put a screw in the top and a screw in the bottom So we'll be able to measure it. Let's measure the top That's 12. The socket saw won't go all the way through a one by four at the 45 so Down to the big saw. I'll meet you there. Back with all my little pieces with all my 45s Now we're gonna stain it So now I'm gonna take out those screws. I just put two in each side And take those out. We're gonna stain it our four sides together. I'm gonna make the box So kind of like we mocked it up, but we're gonna put screws in all of the holes Inch and five eighths. I'm gonna do it upside down. So it's lined up Hey, that's what we got. We got a box Well, it's upside down. We're gonna add the plywood piece of scrap plywood Perfect fit. It's got a bottom. It's getting heavy. I post it We're gonna use these 15 inch two by fours that I cut some pocket holes into And we're gonna attach them to the bottom of the post And then we're gonna slide the whole thing in and use the pocket holes to Tack it to the bottom post in the box super tight fit a little post You want a hammer or something? What can I do a little wiggling and jiggling why in our so we can actually put plants in it Yeah, so this is folded in half and then we're gonna tuck the folded side right down in there This way it doesn't get the post wet keeps it out of a Keeps it drier anyway. You're gonna tuck one side to the other now. We're gonna use the top frame All those little 45s that we had to cut on the big Microsoft We're gonna put them on the liner and we're gonna nail it down with a one and a quarter inch brad nail I missed my own joke Now we're gonna bunch the middle up together and go find a zip tie Zip tie the middle together step seven now we're gonna add the little topper and we're gonna give it a hanger So that actually can hang our numbers kind of excited about this little topper. It's It's a copper topper. Well, yes, and it's solar power. So hopefully in the dark You'll be able to see the numbers and the whole thing It's kind of like so nice step eight Now we're gonna give it some numbers and to take this piece of acrylic over to my glow forge and cut out our numbers for our house numbers The whole point of this thing His whole point my whole point Well, I guess to get the numbers my whole big thing was the planter, but he was This is like the whole Exciting part of the project for him right here. He did all this to get to this to use the glow forge to cut out These numbers gotta use my tools Got these big tools. I gotta use them So I'll meet you over there in the glow for a job Kim sent me a pin that she wanted me to use for the house numbers. So I'm gonna borrow this image bring it into Photoshop Remove their numbers Put in my own numbers Save it as a JPEG open that JPEG in Adobe Illustrator I'm gonna do an image trace I go deeper into how to set up a glow forge file in an earlier video. I'll link to it here I'm gonna remove the background Give the image a red stroke because I like red for cuts I'm gonna export this out as an SVG. I'm gonna import that same SVG into the glow forge app size the image Select the thin acrylic from the materials menu set the layer to cut and hit print Now we picked up this acrylic from Amazon. This stuff smells real a bad Even with the machine exhaust and an inline exhaust we had to evacuate the craft room I mean it smelled bad now Maybe the glow forge stuff is better and it doesn't stink but I wouldn't recommend using the stuff we used Numbers are all hung. What do you guys think? Not too shabby, huh? Looks pretty classy We haven't seen what it looks like at night yet. So I haven't seen the lights glow You guys like this video give us a like You be sure to share it if you're not yet subscribe subscribe because we do this every week So you should tick that bell and then maybe watch this video right here or her video Watch either one. 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