[music] 00:04 speaker 1: gidday knuckleheads, it'suncle knackers here and it's great to be back. now before i start, i just want to give aquick thank you and a shout out to all of those who sent in messages in regard to mydodgy shoulder. it was much appreciated. what do you think of the growth and the new specks?very blue steel. so today's project, i thought i'd start the year off, if you call the middleof march start of the year, with a really fun build. and i've come up with the ideaof an outdoor play kitchen for the kids, made out of old pallets. 00:37 s1: now i don't want a symmetrical,big, bulky pallet kitchen. i want one that's
a bit wonky, where nothing really lines upand it looks like it's come out of an old comic book. now just between you and i, ican't wait to start this, so first of all, all we need are some pallets. got one. wasthat possibly the world's worst ever special effect? think so. 01:00 s1: now for my play kitchen, you'llnotice that i'm using old hardwood pallets and there's two really good reasons for that.the first reason is that, i reckon it looks better. i love that old rustic look. and thesecond reason is that the new pine softwood pallets, they still might have some chemicalresidue left over which might not be that flash [01:19] ____ for the kids.
01:20 s1: now you'll also notice that i havea heavy-duty hardwood pallet and a much more light-duty hardwood pallet. and the reasonfor that is that i want this one here to go up on the top with the slats running thatway. and i want the lighter one for the bottom shelf with the slats running the other direction.and that's purely to create some contrast. so now it's time to cut the shelves, the depthof the shelves. now i've already cut the bottom shelf, now all i need to do is cut the topshelf. now the depth of my shelves is going to be around 530 millimetres or about 21 inches. [background noise] 02:19 s1: so your top shelf's cut and yourbottom shelf's cut. now all you need do is
to fill in these gaps with the slats thatyou have left over. now before you install those slats, it's a great idea to grab yoursander and give the whole unit a sand. because it's much easier at this stage then when it'sall assembled. and after all, you don't want your kids getting splinters. 03:08 s1: now remember, with this build itdoesn't need to be too neat. so if there's gaps between your boards, it doesn't reallymatter. i'm liking this job more and more. 03:35 s1: done. now it's time for the legs.now before we attach those legs, you'll notice that i've made a bit of a detail change tothis top shelf. i've cut the support back about an inch and a half from that leadingedge. now the reason for that is that i didn't
want the top shelf to look too bulky acrossthe front. so i've cut it back an inch and a half, and what that does is it allows meto install this slat which i've cut down. and that'll go across like that, and the frontlooks much lighter. i like it. now for the legs, i'm just using the slats from that sameold pallet. i'm going to cut them to a length of 650 millimetres which i think is about25-1/2 inches. now that measurement isn't set in stone. i think it just depends on howtall your kids are. 04:31 s1: so it's time to attach the legs.now to create that wonky comic-like look, we want to come in about two inches from theedge. and then i don't want the leg to sit straight up and down, i want it to be kickedin just a little bit. and then you can nail
off. so once again, come in about two inchesor 50 mil from the edge of the pallet and then nail on the leg and make sure it's slightlykicked in or kicked out, whichever one you want. 05:16 s1: so now we have the top shelf sittingover the bottom shelf. and you'll also notice that this bottom pallet here is sitting onsome blocks on either end and both sides. and the reason for that is that that elevatesthis pallet up off the ground and away from the water. now the legs also are going tobe nailed off into this pallet, but i've also just kicked them in just a little bit justto create that wonkiness look. 05:51 s1: and now, just to make it a bit morestable, i might drive a couple of screws into
each of these legs here just to make it abit more solid. and before you drive those screws in, just make sure you pre-drill first'cause this old hardwood splits really easily. 06:25 s1: well, it's looking pretty good butlike all kitchens it needs a splash back. so, a couple of these slats will do the jobjust nicely. 06:41 s1: and now it's time for a bit of advertisingthat i wanna display across that splash back. 07:12 s1: looks pretty good, doesn't it? ofcourse, all kitchen benches will have a kitchen sink. so, go grab yourself an old cake tinor a bucket, something like that and place it on the bench where you want it. get a pencil.trace around the outside edge. go on grab a jig saw, like this, cut that shape out anddrop the sink in. just in case you haven't
used one of these jig saws before, you'llneed to drill a hole in the surface first so you can insert that blade. 07:54 s1: so now, the blade from this jigsaw can sit inside that hole and you can start your cut. 08:05 s1: with the hole cut, we can now dropour sink in. [pause] 08:15 s1: beautiful. with the kitchen sinkin place, i think what the bench top needs now are a couple hot plates. i intend to painta couple onto the surface here. now, you can always use an old pot from the kitchen ormaybe even an old frisbee that you got floating
around the backyard. over the fence. 08:53 s1: it's a pretty dodgy old paint jobbut i think you get the idea. all done. looks pretty good, doesn't it? i think i need acouple of control knobs for those two hot plates. i'm going to use my hole saw, thati used for cutting out door handles. there we are. you don't want to screw these on tootight because you still want the knob to turn. lovely. now i've just cut some little piecesof timber and painted them black and i want to put those on the face of the knob likethat, so that the kids can easily turn it. now, to attach these little pieces of woodi need to nail them but nailing it will definitely split that timber.
09:54 s1: so, you'll need to pre-drill butyou won't be able to get a drill bit small enough. all you have to do is get the nailsize that your going to be using, cut the head off, with some pliers. then use thatnail as the drill bit. works like a charm. there it is all done. i'm absolutely raptin how it turned out. it looks like it's come out of a comic book, which is what i wanted.even better still the total cost for this build was one dollar and that was for thecake tin that i bought from an op-shop. now you can knock this up easily in a weekendand it's going to provide the kids hours and hours of mud pie making fun. i wish i hadone of these when i was kid. so, who's up for a mud pie? they're only five cents, anabsolute bargain.
10:59 s1: great tip, knackers! what a greatlittle project and if you enjoyed it, please subscribe to my channel and give it the olethumbs up. it'll be all greatly appreciated. anyway i can't wait till young bloke getshome from school. he's gonna love it. straight out of the oven, they smell absolutely beautiful,but i'll only charge you five cents. i'm not gonna make any money. i might have to re-jigmy pricing structure. anyway till then, i'm out of here. cheers.
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