hey everyone i'm blake and welcome to bm sculptures today i'm going to show you how i built this custom pedestal for this bear that i carved out of epoxy and wood last week if you haven't seen it already be sure to check out that video all right i'm gonna start off this build with some three quarter inch plywood and i'm going to make a simple box here i'm just using my track saw to break down the big 4×8 sheet making it more manageable to work with my table saw then i'm going to rip everything to width on the table saw get all four sides ready and then i'm going to go ahead and put my table saw to 45 degrees and i'm gonna miter all the corners once all the sides are mitered at 45 degrees i'm actually going to tape the back of them this will make it for a really easy glue up it's a trick i learned a long time ago i forgot it was probably jimmy deresta or someone else but i learned this from youtube and i use it all the time and it is a hell of a trick then i just throw some glue on there and some 18 gauge brad nails to secure it and that is pretty simple process right here just making a box now for the vertical slats that you see on this pedestal i'm going to use this fiberboard it's uh i guess particle board but it's the very fine particle they make particle board in kind of different fineness this is the finest particle board and i'm using that because it's going to sand easier and there's going to be a ton of seams and i want to make this as seamless as possible so this stuff just sands really easily so the first thing i did there was i threw it all on my table saw i got them all to the same width and it's key to make the width so it matches your pedestal perfectly and then i basically took it over the miter saw and i cut them all at different random lengths before gluing and then brad nailing to the base now these two sides are as easy as it gets you just cut them at different lengths kind of whatever you think looks good and i did three layers so my i guess vertical slats are going to be three layers deep now what gets tricky here is when i do the opposite two sides they are going to be different widths because i have these slats i have the three levels of slats so it's actually going to be really tricky and something i didn't think of before doing this so using the same width as the front slats didn't work so i had to come up with a whole new width for each of the three slats on each side if that makes any sense at all i feel like i'm speaking gibberish here but long story short this was a lot more complicated than i thought it would be and it just took a little bit extra measurements once everything was down there i sanded everything down nice and flush and then i used a ton of this wood filler to just fill every single seam and brad nail hole in this entire pedestal and then i sanded everything again up to 220 grit and i got a lot of the little crevices and areas that the orbital sander wouldn't reach by hand hey guys just wanted to interrupt the build really quick and let you know that i respond to every single comment so if you have any questions concerns maybe i'm doing something wrong or maybe you know a better easier way to do something let me know down in the comments all right let's get back to the build now it's time to work on the actual table top so i'm just going to use my track saw here cut out the simple table top on it now if i were to do this again i would have just done this as a mitered top to begin with me kind of trying to rush things i didn't even think of that so i'm gonna have this seam go all the way around which i definitely have to fill in more putty and get the seam completely out and here it is everything completely sanded all the holes and lines completely sealed now i'm going to do my first coat of paint and i am going to be completely honest i know nothing about painting i am a terrible painter my thought here is that i'm going to brush on this thick paint so it can then be sanded and cover up all the little indentations even further while that's happening i have my buddy alex at under the water woodworks cnc the clients uh wording that they want on this pedestal and then i'm going to take this to the table saw cut it out and do an inlay on both sides of this pedestal now i know what you're probably thinking why didn't i do this before i painted the pedestal and again this came down to just i i was in a little bit of a rush for time i had to have my buddy see and see those while i was still working on the pedestal and i was just at that painting stage in the end i'm not too worried because i'm sanding that regardless that first coat of paint so it really doesn't matter and now i got these cut out to manageable sizes i'm going to trace them out and then use my chisels and router and i'm going to clean this thing up for a nice seamless inlay and this was actually a little bit of an experiment because i've never chiseled out or done any kind of inlay in this particle board you know i don't know if if there's going to be chip outs i didn't really know how it was going to handle but surprisingly it worked really really good there's no chip outs and it was just as easy as working on a solid piece of lumber now i'm just going to glue this piece in and then fill all the sides with some more wood putty before sanding everything down and making sure that it's perfectly flush so no seams will be shown after the final paint this is actually my first time using this kind of wood putty it's time sensitive and basically comes out of the box pink and then once it's dry it'll turn wood color so you know you can start sanding it's actually really cool and worked really well and speaking of product first for me here's another first i'm going to be using this filler primer this is basically a thick paint that you prime the surface with and you can sand and it fills in all the little imperfections so i did two thick coats of this stuff sanded in between and all of those little lines that you see right there completely went away this stuff is really cool to work with once that was completely dry i did four coats of gloss white and made this thing nice and pretty and once everything was completely dry i finished it off by buffing it with some white paste wax this just protects it seals everything nice and looks good okay i want to interrupt one more time before the big reveal if you haven't already please consider subscribing give this video a thumbs up and let me know what you think in the comments it really helps out the algorithm it helps me continue to make videos like this and it helps other people be able to find these videos so without you guys i wouldn't be doing these so thank you so much let's get right into the big reveal listen i know laying on the ground turning this thing by hand is as ghetto as it gets but i don't have one of those electric lazy susans and i don't think it's going to withstand the weight of this pedestal anyway so you got to do what you got to do now just enjoy thank you for watching this build if you haven't already be sure to check out last week's video where i took a solid block of epoxy and wood and i carved it into this bear i'm blake from bm sculptures until next time see you later
