My beautiful daughter will be hunting out west a little more this season so I offered to build her on bow blind. She mentioned that she really liked hunting out of my three window octagon blind so I decided to just mimic mine with a few tweaks.
With lumber prices being what they are, we decided to do a little scavenger hunting and salvaging of some used lumber. We got very good at pulling nails and squaring up lumber but saved a ton of money.
First off I laid out the exterior base with 2x4’s and decided on 30” wall panels, which would create a 75” flat to flat interior dimension. I know this seems big, and it is, but my thoughts were to give her plenty of room for shelves, hangers and also be able to have a real comfortable office chair. Who knows, maybe one year she will throw me some grand baby’s, bingo, plenty of room. So I built and framed the base.
Next step was to find material to skin the floor. I happen to come across some old motor crates that were used to transport rocket motors to Spacex. Breck and I were able to take a couple of crow bars and hammers and in one evening salvaged enough rough cut 1x8’s to cover the floor and build the door.
Once completed, it was time to decide on a wall height and get to ripping 2x4’s into 2x2’s but on a 22.5 degree angles. It was decided to go with a 6’-8” wall height and off we went. Cut all the 2x4’s to length then ran them through the table saw. Once we had our 16 vertical wall braces it was time to cut 16 horizontal supports along with 32 wall braces cut on 45 degree angles.
I decided to use my 16 ga finishing nailer to scab all together then come back and suck it all together with 3 ½” screws.
More to come shortly.
Rwc
With lumber prices being what they are, we decided to do a little scavenger hunting and salvaging of some used lumber. We got very good at pulling nails and squaring up lumber but saved a ton of money.
First off I laid out the exterior base with 2x4’s and decided on 30” wall panels, which would create a 75” flat to flat interior dimension. I know this seems big, and it is, but my thoughts were to give her plenty of room for shelves, hangers and also be able to have a real comfortable office chair. Who knows, maybe one year she will throw me some grand baby’s, bingo, plenty of room. So I built and framed the base.
Next step was to find material to skin the floor. I happen to come across some old motor crates that were used to transport rocket motors to Spacex. Breck and I were able to take a couple of crow bars and hammers and in one evening salvaged enough rough cut 1x8’s to cover the floor and build the door.
Once completed, it was time to decide on a wall height and get to ripping 2x4’s into 2x2’s but on a 22.5 degree angles. It was decided to go with a 6’-8” wall height and off we went. Cut all the 2x4’s to length then ran them through the table saw. Once we had our 16 vertical wall braces it was time to cut 16 horizontal supports along with 32 wall braces cut on 45 degree angles.
I decided to use my 16 ga finishing nailer to scab all together then come back and suck it all together with 3 ½” screws.
More to come shortly.
Rwc
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