Select and Prepare Lumber

for this project you'll need a hand select ten to twelve two by fours that have the least amount of imperfections like not swaying or bends that way it improves the quality of your build so typically for an outdoor furniture project you want to go with something like a theater but seeders stupid expensive so we're gonna go with something a more budget-friendly and then I'll show how to seal it to kind of withstand a long time now one of the main tools you'll need for this build in order to execute it is a Craig pocket hole jig now you don't have to have a big Foreman like I have that's just simply for speed and efficiency just how often I build you can pick yourself as little as the Craig mini jig which is roughly around 15 bucks it'll take you some time to get this accomplished but you'll still do it or you can get what I had before this tool which was the Craig k4 and that's a little bit about 98 99 bucks but well worth the investment