Carpenter crew, lend me your advice

[Mr. Feeny]

Besides color, what is the best way to go about building something like this?



I don't know sh*t about wood, but I am assuming using strips of wood, particleboard backer board, everything glued together in between and glued to backer board?

[Nixola]

Yeah....

I probably wouldn't glue them together, that would probably be a pain in the ass. I'd just use a pneumatic stapler from the back side to hold them in place while the glue dries.

[Aaron]

There is a lot of money in wood in that thing as well...

I'd go to a cabinet shop/furniture maker and get their scraps. Otherwise, you'd spend probably close to $1000 bucks in wood. That's not just 2x4's from lowes.

[Mr. Feeny]

hmmm, so you would still glue with a stapler. Think a non pneumatic stapler is strong enough to go through the backer board? I was thinking something light like particle board

[Mr. Feeny]

I stopped at home depot they have this kiln dried white wood strips that are .25/.5/.75 thick (all 2' long - which is perfect if I want to do a 2' x 4' piece) That are .90-3.00/ea - Using these I would be between $40-70 of wood depending on size variation

www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/300/37/37982e17-afc2-470e-8b4d-c2cd17826c23_300.jpg

[Apricky]

if you're painting it i'd use 4/4 poplar because it paints well and is reasonably inexpensive. Definitely get a good planer though because there is going to be a lot of planing involved, and you dont want it to look like that wavy board on the left hand side. What i think would look better is to go with some quarter sawn oak, still 4/4 or find some nice curly maple, and just use different levels of finishing, oil, wax, etc

[SuperShark]

Yeah, glue them to the backer, but not between them. You'll need something longer then what a normal stapler would be able to sink in. You might be able to use short screws.

Part of the good look of that, is the different types of wood. I'd try to go to cabinet shops and get their scraps, they will probably give them to you, or charge you very little for them.

[damone]

Well, it's going to be heavy so, I'd mount some larger hooks/screws directly into the studs. Then have slots on the back of the board that slide over the wall hooks. This will keep is as flush mounted to the wall as possible, and be strong enough not to fall off.

[Ripple]

Looks like something they did on HGTV to 'brighten up a room' for less than $100.

Why do they lie to us like that?

[Andrew]

Trying to figure out how I would fabricate something like that backboard slot w/o buying a router

[Biased]

^ A drill, with two bits. One big one, one smaller one, drill like two smaller holes next to each other, then chisel out the small area left between them. Then drill a larger whole below that slot. Make a sandwich with a bigger whole underneath that. So do like a two layer backer board.

[Creative]

$1000 in wood

could easily make that from 2x4....just rip them down to different widths on a table saw

if you have or have access to one

[flamewolf]

if you plan it out you could easily rip all of those from ~6-8 sticks of 8' 2x4

[Google Bot]

depending how tall you want it. hit up lumber liquidators or any hardwood store. they always get remnants from job sites and will sell cheap. if you are not in a rush find some local construction projects and see if they will sell you leftovers. other then that use table saw + 2x4s and you can make this pretty easily. the annoying part would be staining them and painting them different colors.

[Parched]

If you look at the wood, it's not your standard 2x4. It's a bunch of furniture grade exotic woods. There is mahogany and maple, plus it appears to have at least some alder, bubinga, cherry, cypress and birch.

Could you make it from 2x4's? Yes. Will it look like that? No.