All that this required was drilling perpendicular holes through all of my vertical pieces where dowels could simply be slid through to create the internal framing. So what I decided to do instead was use dowels for the horizontal crossmembers. So trying to get that many lap joints perfectly aligned for the first time on 10 foot cedar posts that aren't exactly cheap didn’t exactly sound like a very good way to practice. But I’m a pretty novice woodworker in that I’ve never done anything this large and structural, nor have I done much traditional woodworking or complex joinery. This raised my trellis to 8 feet tall once 2 feet were buried in the ground, which felt a lot more natural from the perspective of someone up on our porch which this would be next to, where they otherwise would have felt too short.Īgain, you can skip this step if you want to use my design.įor the intersections between horizontal and vertical supports on the internal framing, I would have loved to have used the same size boards for each direction and done lap joints with squared lumber. One thing worth noting here is that towards the end of the design process, I updated my design to use 10 foot cedar posts instead of 8 foot cedar posts – something I didn't know was an option until I saw them at the home improvement store. So ignoring the 3rd dimension temporarily, I used Illustrator to plan out the front profile. This trellis was only going to be about 6-8 inches in depth and I could do what few 3rd dimension calculations there were to do in my head. I really want to learn this program, as I want to get into CNC work in the future where it’ll be invaluable to me, but after an hour of futzing around in there without much luck, I decided to switch to a program I know better, which is Adobe Illustrator.Īdobe Illustrator isn’t a CAD or physical world design program, but I mostly just needed to be able to work in 2 dimensions.
With a rough idea of what I wanted my trellis to look like, I took to the computer to try to make myself some plans in Autodesk Fusion 360. Shop Vac (for cleanup of expanding foam dust).Reciprocating Saw (for cutting excess expanding foam).24-inch Level (for leveling side-to-side once in ground).Fence Post Level (for leveling front-to-back once in ground).Post Hole Digger (for easy digging of holes).Random Orbital Sander (for finish sanding once complete).1 1/16" Forestner Bit (to make clean, flat bottomed holes for dowels).Drill Press (to drill straight holes for dowels).I encourage you to look up maker spaces near you if you're concerned about not having your own tools as most moderate size cities will have one or more maker spaces for you to use. I've slowly acquired some of my own tools over the years, but I still don't own everything I needed, so I used tools available to me at my local maker space in certain steps. Many of the other tools can easily be borrowed from a local "tool library" or be used at a maker space. Don't be intimidated by the following list – you don't need a sander, for example, if you're not afraid of using a little elbow grease to hand sand.
In the previous step, I described the supplies you'll need to build these trellises, now let's talk about the tools you'll need to assemble them.
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