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Skills Required: Advanced Beginner to Intermediate.
You’ll need to be able to use a miter saw, table saw, Kreg Jig, and drill with various bits. You’ll be doing some gluing and screwing and lots of measuring.
Ryobi Compound Miter Saw with Laser Ryobi Table Saw Ryobi Belt Sander Ryobi Router with bits (optional, see Step 15) Ryobi Drill with bits, also a 3/4″ countersink bit Kreg Jig R3 Jr.
For this step, you’re going to keep the pieces the same length and rip some width off using a table saw. You’re going to use the table saw to cut all eight pieces from steps 2 and 3 to a 2″ x 2 3/4″ width (maintaining the length).