well it's still freezing outside it's actually colder today than it has been in the last couple of weeks it's snowing outside so I'm back in my garage and making the most of the time that I have right now when I can't be writing because it's like 15 degrees outside so can you guess what I'm gonna be doing today you guessed it we're gonna be building some more jobs hi again it's me Lisa the budget equestrian welcome back to my channel and if this is your first time here a very cold Colorado welcome so I've had these jump standards in my garage for probably over six months now and originally I had planned on turning these into like playing cards but I don't really have the motivation to paint playing cards on jumps today so what I thought I would do is turn these just into regular winged standards and I just have a little bit more to work on in order to get them ready to paint and I thought since it's cold outside it'd be a good day to paint so that's what we're gonna do today and originally I did have videos showing how I built this but it's pretty straightforward and not too difficult at all all I did was take some thin plywood and attach it to four foot long Landscaping Timbers that I had cut in half and then put some feet on the bottom of them but they're not quite finished so that's what we're going to work on today and if you are wanting to duplicate something like this these standards are four feet tall 30 inches wide and the feet on the bottom are 30 inches long and the reason I made them so long is because I want these jumps to be really stable since they are solid I really don't want them blowing around why don't I have them set up outside in my writing area so I made the bases really wide to give it a lot of support but I'm not happy with how you can see the top it's hollow as well as the sides so we're gonna frame this in with just some 1 by 2 inch lumber that I got at Home Depot that was really really horrible and another important thing that I have to do is I have to drill the holes for the jump cups because if I don't have holes for jump cups it's not gonna be a very good jump if you have the keyless jump system you could put tracks on the side and that would be relatively easy to do especially with this type of a jump standard but I don't have those right now and they're a little bit expensive so I'm just gonna make do with what I have and that's what we're gonna do today so how about we make these weak standards look a little bit more put together but wait before I do that let's go over some safety rules first this is something I probably should go over in every video that I make but I never do because I just try to practice safety so if you are making your own jumps remember safety first especially when you're working with power tools these don't look fancy but they do protect my hands just a old pair of gloves and I do have safety goggles but right now I actually have my glasses on so those protect my eyes pretty well too you can also use ear protection because the power tools are a little bit loud I think it goes without saying common sense working around power tools is really important so please play it safe be safe and take your time anytime you're working with power tools in your garage okay enough of the safety conversation let's get to work so the first thing that I did was make a table basically for me to put these humongous jump standards on so I would be able to get my drill through the wood for the jump cup holes and on these standards I started the holes for the jump cups at 16 inches and then went every four inches up so now I wanted to show you the really speeded-up version of doing the same thing on the other standards and once I had the holes all drilled then I wanted to make sure I had a nice sanded surface so I just grabbed my orbital sander and sanded all sides and the front and the back of each standard and then it was time to add the wood that's basically going to frame the standard and in the beginning I said I used 1 by 2 inch lumber that's what I had intended and then I found that this 1 by 3 inch lumber actually fit perfectly so I used 1 by 3 inch lumber for the top and for one of the sides and all I did was measure off how long I wanted each of the pieces of 1 by 3 wood to be and that's what I'm doing right here and then it was time to attach it to the standard and they just used three and a half inch screws because that's what I had and secured each end through the landscaping timber underneath and then because of the three and a half inch screws I didn't want to split the wood so I pre-drilled some starter holes with a tiny drill bit for the side pieces and then I just lined up where I wanted the board to be and attached it to the standard and they believe I put four screws on this one inside piece and they didn't add another piece to the other side because if I did my jump cups would not have fit so I just wanted to show you some different examples of different jump cups these are 15 dollars a pair from Dover saddlery they're really heavy-duty these are the dapple equine one-handed jump cups they're about $24 which are awesome my favorites and then these are the Stateline tack jump cups you can get for around $4 on State Line tech they're not horrible and they're a great way to get started so this is what the standard looks like when it's been done as far as the wood being put on it there's a couple little gaps that I can see so this is where I'm going to use my latex painters and fill in those little gaps and I got a new cocking gun and I was super excited and then it wasn't working very well so I apologize for that but after a bit it started working just fine so I just put the on and then run my finger across it and smooth it out and then this is my favorite part painting the standard this is what brings everything together and yes it's only just primer paint but I love it all right so I am freezing to death because it is so cold in here well it's not that cold it's 45 degrees but ever went so I have completed that first coat of my primer paint on my humongous wing standards but you could just do a couple coats of the kills two primer paint and have some really cool you know big white wing standards if you want I'm not going to do that I'm going to come back later and put another coat of primer on it because it's still wet and I need to allow it to dry and do any touch-up but after that then I'm going to do like a faux brick pattern on it so that's gonna be in a video coming up later this week for you guys but I just wanted to show you how cool these turned out using basically spare wood that I had remnant wood that I had lying around and I made some winged standards it was so much fun but I'm so cold so I'm gonna go inside now thank you so much for watching my video today I'd love to have you subscribe to my channel just click on my picture my picture at the end of this video you can subscribe to my channel 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