It is usually a pretty good weekend for me if I get the chance to bust out one of my favorite power tools. Table saws scare me (I really like my hands and fingers), so most of my projects get completed with my trusty miter saw.
I wouldn't call myself a world class wood-worker, but I am mildly dangerous and I occasionally create some practical and decent looking pieces. My greatest accomplishment would either be the desk I made for my wife (that I have now taken over) or the shelves I made and posted about close to a year ago.
If you look really closely, you can see my old grill in the background behind the folding chairs. One of the things I loved about that grill was the fact it had a folding shelf on the side of it.
In an effort to save a little bit of money, you can see the new grill I bought does not have a shelf. I figured I could make my own for less than it would cost to buy the grill with one attached.
Spoiler Alert It didn't turn out pretty, but at a low cost of $10 for some screws, I did in fact spend far less than I would have buying the other grill.
I am a big fan of reclaimed lumber. Not the fancy barn stuff you see people selling at flea markets for insane prices though. I am talking about the pile of leftover scraps that lived in the corner of our garage growing up. Pieces of wood that could be used for anything and everything because they were scrap so who really cares.
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I started out making the frames for the top shelf and the bottom shelf as you can see in the picture above.
You can't tell from the picture, but the wood wasn't nearly as straight as I thought it was going to be. I had to use my circular saw to shave a little bit off two of the legs to make the whole thing stand level without wobbling.
I was starting to run out of wood for the tops of the shelves too, so I had to add some spaces to the bottom shelf to make my wood stretch farther. In the end, I am pretty happy with it. I added some hooks to the side of it and I actually used it that night while I was grilling.
It is heavy and to save my bad back I used my hand cart to move it out to the grilling area.
Looking back, it is probably a little higher than I had originally intended, but I wanted something that I could easily place plates of food and other items on without having to stoop down too far. Someday maybe I will recreate it with some higher quality wood but for now, I think it will get the job done quite nicely.