to save money, we found this framed mirror at a thrift shop for a lot less money than it would cost us just to buy the glass separately. it's a nice looking mirror andits got beveled edges on it too. i wanted to show you this attachment on my rip fence. it's just a piece of plywoodand it's called a sacrificial fence, and that's because you can run it real close to yourblade and the blade can cut into it without doing damage to your actual fence like you can see i have done here in the past. a lot of rip fences will have these holes in them, and that's what they're for, is screwing a board on to use as a sacraficial fence.
a viewer to the show sent me these clamps awhile back and they're specially made just for this. and so, they just dropped down into these holes andthen i can move it wherever i need it but the second reason i use this is forcutting really thin material. when my rip fence is locked into place there's actually a gap in there and so a real thin wood or in this case the aluminum can just slide right under it so adding aboard gives it kind of a zero clearance. i just did a test fit on the mirror and itdoesn't quite fit into this frame this
direction so i need to shave a littlebit off down here. i'm using a cabinet scraper to plane this down a little bit. i'll give that a test fit. oh, perfect. thank you all for your questions and comments on the mirror project. there were three commonly asked questions, that seemed to come up again and again. a lot of you wanted to know whatkind of saw blade do i used to cut aluminum and does it dull the saw blade? i use a combination blade to cut just
about everything on my table saw. youcould use a fine tooth or laminate cutting blade and you would probably get smoother edges on the aluminum. i don't think it really matters that much because when you cut aluminum it leaves a sharp edge you're gonna have to sand down anyway i don'tknow if cutting aluminum is going to dull your saw blade any quicker thancutting wood maybe a little bit but you know cutting anything on a saw blade isgoing to dull it and if you want to cut aluminum i can't imagine really a simplersolution than just using your woodworking tools. is there a limit?can you cut thick aluminum? the best thing about aluminum is that it'slightweight, i don't think i've ever seen any really
thick chunks of aluminum. structural pieces of aluminum like table legs are strong because they're hollow, so the actualaluminum is still thin. the second most common comment and hotly debated topic in thevideo had to do with the spelling and pronunciation of aluminum. believe it ornot, there are still variations in the english language around the world.in north america, where i am, aluminum is most commonly pronounced and spelled"aluminum". in great britain and other places it might be spelled andpronounced "aluminium". so remember if you're on an aeroplane and thespeciality of the passenger sitting next to you seems to be correcting grammar, he might just be an arse.
the third most commonly asked question i got onthe video was what in the world is this hand stapler thingy? this is called a point driver. a viewer to the show sent this to me a while back because i was holding artwork into apicture frame just with nails and he said "this is a much easier way." and it is, i love it. it's different than a staple gun because it doesn't shoot down it shoots forward. these are the points it shoots out they come in a flexible or rigid variety, and they look kind of like a strip of thick brad nails. you load them in the front.
this knob on the back controls how deep you want the points to shoot into the wood. this is a good question about how much money we're gonna save byremodeling the bathroom ourselves and how did we come up with the design? of course we're gonna save a lot of money by doing this ourselves. i'm not really sure how muchthat's gonna be because most of the cost of a remodel like that has to do withlabor costs. the materials and the fixtures that we've chose for thebathroom are relatively inexpensive.
as for the design it's not something wereally sat down and discussed all of our options and planned it all the waythrough what we do is we try to pick out a couple elements that we like and tryto repeat those throughout the whole process in this case it was squares.there's squares on the mirror, the light fixture above the mirror, and the handleson the vanity are square, and the faucet has kind of a square look. then the other element we're trying to keep consistent is the color palette. typically, we like to use of bright colorsthroughout our house but we thought with
this bathroom remodel it would bedifferent and interesting to use earth tones, so with the painted surfaces andother elements we're trying to keep with tans and dark browns. the brightness will come from theone beadboard wall that is painted white. and then the third element we're kind of repeatingis a brushed nickel look. the light fixtures brushed nickel in it, and of course thealuminum mirror frame, but really most of this is just making it up as we go along andmaking sure that the next thing we do fits within that scheme.
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