Tabletop H-frame Artist Easel
So I have wanted to do a painting Party with friends from work, only issue is that I had only one portable easel. So I decided to build a couple small scale H frame easels that would be portable, functional and cheap to build.
I built on the design I created for the tall H-frame easels and created it's little sister. It uses dramatically less wood and still holds up to a 24" tall canvas with ease and is far more portable. I built my little wonders out of pine because of cost, but if that is no object you can use harder woods like oak.
comparison. In this version, I heavily used my table-saw. BE very careful when operating power tools, especially when ripping narrow pieces if wood in half. Wear eye and breathing protection.
If you compare this easel's Wood and hardware list to the Big version, you will see that you are only spending in the neighborhood of $12 on supplies for this one in Pine, verses the $40+ price of the large one. You're welcome!
No it isn't dejavu, the basic design is Very similar to the original. In this though I glued and screwed the paint tray to the easel, because the center mast attaches to it.
the clamp is basically the same as big version and Fit is very important, so it glides up and down on mast.
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