Cutting the Legs: How to Build a Small Stage

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm Grady Johnson and I'm the producer of Strange Company and today I'm representing expertvillage.com. Okay now I'm going to start cutting and we are cutting a couple of things we want to remember. You do want to cover the area because usually it is not the space that we want to be in, even if it is our space unless you got a clean house the better off that you are . Just grab a drop cloth and put it underneath your work. Move these boards out of your way and just put it underneath. If you cover your cutting area and any of the saw dust that fly off you could easily put away with when you are done. Once you got that all laid out there pull your work were you want work at and that is were we are going to cut. Remember to always were safety glasses a lot of stuff is flying up in the air so be sure that you are protecting your eyes and whenever you are cutting you are going to be wanting to cut the material that is a way from your line and that is going mark from the measuring section that we did earlier. Now you see here this is the area that we want to take out and we are going to want to make sure that all of our cuts are staying on this side of our line and that vis versa when we are doing this side over here we want to be sure that the cuts on the side of the line. Now when we do this in this materials come out we would stack these boards and we save them as we go along. So lets go ahead and make our first cut. Remember when you put this guide on here that is a good guide put it isn't the actual cut you see were it is biting in the wood as well. Okay I have cut off the bottom part now I need to cut out that material that is going to come off the next one. Lets move on to the next section. Again we are lining it up in the same way and making our cut. Now remember when you are cutting be sure and cut out only the material that you want to. If you keep this legs the same length you are not going to get any wobbling and you are going to have a great stage to work with."