– What's up, HGTV? I'm Ben Napier from
HGTV's "Home Town." J. PICKENS: And I'm
J. Pickens from HGTV's digital series "CJ Work." Welcome to my wood shop. This is my wood shop. J. PICKENS: It's ours. BEN NAPIER: Still my wood shop. You'd better bring your A game. I'm going to show you how to
do a really simple project. It's our Scotsman
co-serving tray. We'll show you
all how it's done. So the first step is
getting your wood prepped. We try to use all
old wood flooring that's been in bad shape. This came off of a porch. We do need to cut the tongue
and groove off some of these. So now, we're going
to do something cool. We've got all these cool sleds
and stuff that we've built. Serving tray ends. And these are nice, because
they keep your fingers safe.
So now, we've got
all four sides. So let's work on our bottom. So you need to take
your side pieces, and you need to
measure 17 and one 16. What you can do is,
each one of your boards, you can measure it and mark it. So 17 and a 16. Since we use old
flooring, it usually takes four pieces to make the bottom. So now, try to fit
it all together. What I usually do
is I'll glue it up, and then I'll just
brad nail it together. But if you don't have a brad
nailer, you can use clamps. And if you don't have clamps,
you can use duct tape.
Once it's all dry, then you
want to sand your edges around and just soften it
all up a little bit so it doesn't cut anybody
and there's no splinters. We take our brand
here, and there we go. We put a coat of
poly on it, and then it's ready to serve sweet tea. J. PICKENS: We've designed
this cool, modern stool, and I'm going to show
you how to make it. To make this stool, we've
got all the parts set out. The first thing that
we're going to do is pre-drill the medium pieces. We're going to make a mark
on the center of each leg on both sides one inch in. Using a number six countersink
pre-drill, drill away. Woo, that ash is hot. Happy birthday. Next step, turn each
piece towards your body. Repeat that same process,
except mark it three quarters of an inch in on the center. Onto step two– assembly. Using your eighth inch drill
bit and your trusty drill, put a pilot hole
through the countersink that you already
made into this piece.
And go ahead and
screw this piece in. Repeat this process
on all four sides. OK, one frame complete. Now, we're going to just
take that whole process [rewind noise] And do it again. Congratulations. Yay, you got your frames made. Turn those puppies up. Grab your smaller pieces. Place them like a so. Squeeze this together. Repeat the process
that we just used to create the frames
to attach these smaller pieces all the way around. That's all assembled. Set it aside. Bring out our seat. On to staining. OK, now I've got it to
the color that I want, so just read the instructions
on whatever stain you bought to know how long
you need to wait for it to dry.
Seat's dry. Now all you've got to do is
attach it to this bad boy. Take some of your
wood glue like so. Put it down. Use the same countersink to
put two holes in each side to screw the seat to the base. Here's the change– we're using
this two inch screw to attach the seat, because the two
and a half inch screws from before are too long. They'll go all the way
through, and you'll end up with a screw in the ash. [laughter] For a finishing touch, add some
plugs to fill the screw holes. [singing] Easy, modern furniture
that you can do yourself..