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Making Cedar Lattice for a Trellis

Bob is working with Ryley to make cedar trellis panels. The cedar is rough on one side and dressed on the other. They are laminating two pieces of cedar together with an exterior epoxy glue. The epoxy is spread evenly over the entire surface of the wood. The lattice itself is also cedar. One inch by one-inch-square strips are cut first. Then the strips are taken to the radial arm saw to make a dado cut periodically along the strips. The outer frame of the trellis is assembled using lap joints at the four corners. The lattice is created by overlapping the one-by strips in a checkerboard fashion.

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" All right we're building's frame for the trellis out of one by six -- which is run on one -- addressed on the other. Planed smooth. And what we're gonna do here is laminate these two pieces together and Ryley accounting Lewis that you -- that this is -- and -- marine. Well. -- It -- rooms my account instead it is to have. Exactly. Duplicates of tenth highest. Epoxy resin that is the next area application. -- And -- used them as governor benefited. How is that going to yeah -- All right. Now this place that. And we're keeping it. -- this -- as the width of the other board -- weight on top. So that eventually we'll be having a lap joint occurring at these corners -- After some plants well -- don't have enough she -- that's left yes so what would come up with. There's indiscriminate use a piece of time."

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" And using -- Drywall screws right in three inch drywall. Now have to put them every twelve inch centers right right yes. Good OK so now does this sandwiched between the one rise and penalties plywood and we'll set that aside. The next step is to talk about the actual -- right that's it."

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" Shortly -- still is now what we're doing is using six quarters stock. Which is really an inch so that we can get these one by one inch squares and -- already got a half dozen of them are so kind of temporarily nailed together here so that we can take the next step. Which is on the radial arm saw with a date Joe -- And that NATO led essentially as a blade that has that and eccentric. Sort of war -- it if you will. And when it cuts it's moving fast and kind of wobbling and we'll show you how it plows out the wood."

" Now we'll join the brain sections in the lap joint and and rather than drive screws through there we'll just do some of that epoxy. -- Okay we'll just that piano. We're plant half. And hold it until it sets. And of course we'll do this at all workforce. -- Now the epoxy needs a good point or article that we should be toward yeah this is the second sexual we've got right now. All right -- site and start setting these up down down down this end here. And the intensity it tight fit. That they don't need to be plant Brett dawn I don't know."

" Yeah and blue whose -- the -- secured entrance but for dreamers and to a community younger and -- it. All it down here to support the trellis that existed. Really put up or buy it or pressure treated posts which go down two feet into the ground there's no concrete no more nothing in -- did this in the soil with attempting it down -- we clamp the post with one by six red cedar. Which will last a long long time. And up at the top ryley's going to attach it cap. They're given nice kind of classic look and this is just the same board we've -- the same size and Leo and overlaps by about half an inch all the way around. And that is final -- up there. Then of course we have to do something about putting a finish on the trust I think probably put a fight. Solid stain on it so it'll stand out against the house and then the fun part we'll be finding a bind to install here."

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