This is covering the spread part of the fan dual podcast network The first games of the 2023 men's college basketball tournament got underway last night with the first Four which means it is time to dive in to the opening round on Thursday We're gonna break down every region in action with Austin cast get his read on those games Where he has seen value to get you ready for which should be a fantastic day in sports This is covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim saw this. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm Joined here as mentioned by Austin cast check them out on Twitter at Austin cast You can find his work over at number fire calm Austin. Happy turny time to you. How you doing today? Doing really well. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I have to ask you though for personal reasons I'm filling my bracket and I kind of like Watching basketball this year. It was hard to get super enthused but Indiana at times But there were also times where they look really good.  Can I feel okay? Having them win more than one game You can yes, I was not the most confident answer I've ever heard Well, I'll say this I I really wanted them as an IU fan to get a four seed I always feel like there's a huge difference than being a four or a five when it comes to that first-round game and They did and I think they're fortunate to get that and the five seed in their little pod Miami I think might be the worst five seed. So I think the draw was kind to them, but I Don't I've seen IU play really really well this year And I've seen IU be very beatable a lot of the time So I don't know but I think you can say that for so many of the four five six seeds That's could be just chaos this year. I mean honestly like there are three seeds You can say that for it's a weird year for sure, but I just I don't know that region specifically has given me fits So Hopefully they do something. I'm not super high in the Big 10. In fact, I'm pretty low on them across the board But they might be the one exception. So I'm glad to hear You're not totally totally out obviously not the most confident answer which gives me a little bit of pause But we'll see how that plays out What we're gonna do for today with Austin is break down all the Thursday games in the men's college basketball tournament We'll go through where Austin seen value in each region and get you ready there from a spread and money line total perspective Later on I'll go through some NASCAR stuff for Atlanta to dump that at the end In case you're trying to bet that in addition the NCAA tournament if you want to talk some Friday games We're back later on today with Ben Stevens of sports grid He'll talk about the Friday games outline where he is seeing value there Going region by region walls talks in futures with both Ben and Austin as well If you want to get our bracket breakdown show search for covering the spread wherever you get your podcast We had Dr. Ed Feng and Bennett Corkin with us on Monday breaking down Strategy breaking down each region breaking down national champions all that in the same place You can find that on the covering the spread podcast me but also on the fendal YouTube page So just search for that wherever you get your podcast hit subscribe check it out And if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review as well We'll dive in to the Thursday games here in just one second But this March take a shot at college hoops with a no sweat bet on fendal sports But it doesn't matter if you're new to fendal already have an account right now All customers can tip off the tourney with a no sweat bet just signed into your fendal sportsbook account to claim yours today Then you can bet on everything from the money line to point spreads that by the 12 seed matchup You've been eyeing all net that is safe secure and super easy to use There's no better place to bet the tournament than fendal sportsbook Just signed into your fendal sportsbook account to claim your no sweat that today make every moment more fendal Must be 21 plus in present in select states bonus issued is not withdrawal bonus bets that expire seven days after a seat Max bonus bet $5 unless otherwise specified Restricted applies see full terms at sportsbook.fendal.com gambling problem call 1-800 gambler hope is here gambling help line ma.org or call<PHONE_NUMBER> for 24 seven sport massachusetts in new york one eight seven seven eight hope and wire text hope and why Fendal is offering online sports waging in kansas under an agree with the kansas star casino LLC call 1 800 gambler or was a fendal com Slash rg in arizona 1 800 next step or text to acceptify 3 3 4 2 in Connecticut 1 8 8 8 7 8 9 7 7 7 7 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in indiana 1809 with it and why oming in kansas 1 800 5 2 2 4700 or in kansas ks gambling help calm louisiana 1877 770 stop in mariland md gambling health orc in west virginia go to 1 800 gambler net Now we'll dive into the actual games here for thursday in just one second But first I wanted to talk to you because we haven't talked futures yet on the show We talked about the brackets. We're talking about individual games, but I'm not the biggest futures guy So I wanted to pick your brain about any futures you like before tip off on Thursday So when you look at the board at vandal sportsbook, what stands out to you there right now? So it's funny how this worked out because you brought up indiana. I didn't know you were going to do that I'm really zeroed in on the 14 pot of iuk and kin state and drake in miami I think miami and iuk are both Fairly vulnerable. So I'm iing drake and kin state sweet 16 futures. Oh Drake is plus 420 to make the sweet 16 while kin state is plus 520 By our nerd metric here at number fire iuk has a historical nerd of a seven seed They've shown a high ceiling beating Purdue twice including once at mackey and what was probably their best game of the year But I think they benefited greatly from a big 10 that has just one top 20 squad on kin palm I you barely shoots any threes they rank 355th and three point attempt rate, which is last among tourney teams And they're just a four and a half point favorite so odd makers aren't too high on them It's a similar story for miami by nerd. They're comparable to a historical 11 seed so yeah 11 They were it you kind of get that across the board is a little bit of a down here in college basketball in general They were also aided by a down here from the conference the ACC has just one team in the top 30 and none in the top 20 on kin palm And the hurricanes haven't had some close luck Close game luck go their way. They went seven and four and games decided by five or fewer points So Taken drake and can state to get to the sweet 16 is my way of trying to take advantage of what I think are a week four And five seed and I you and miami. Yeah, so drake as you mentioned plus 420 to make it Over at fangal sports, but Kent State is plus a 520 and honestly like How surprised would you be if we saw those two teams facing each other in the second round where you're kind of locked into a You know one of them advancing would that blow you away that happened? No, it wouldn't so what when I started looking at this I was actually going down the route of just drake at plus 420 Yeah, and then I started thinking man, it wouldn't really be that crazy at all if they played can state You could just bet both of these right turn a profit no matter what if those two play each other Obviously one of the bets has to be a loser and they don't love doing that, but right Yeah, wouldn't surprise me at all if we see Kent State and drake play on In the second round, okay, if you find egg on your house Austin I if this is you know why now at least betting against IU you mentioned, you know I mean, I know you're closer Purdue, so maybe we'll talk about that at some point, too But like, you know, I'm just saying you did this to yourself.  Yeah, it's true. Yeah, you're right Okay, well, let's go and talk about some individual games here and start things off again We're talking about the Thursday games Let's start things off here in the South region six games there. We got plenty of types spreads I got Utah State Mizzou pretty tight West Virginia Maryland any spreads money lines or totals you like when you look at the South region games specifically Austin So I'm really excited to watch that West Virginia Maryland game first game of the day And I think it's a really strong eight nine game, but for betting value I'm looking at Utah State's minus 120 money line price against Missouri This week I wrote up a piece on four teams that could bust brackets and honestly for three of the teams You're sort of I was sort of pitching a dream that we all know is possible But also very much a long shot, but it was very easy to make a case for Utah State Advanced metrics just love them Our model has them as the 16th best team in the country Ken Palm has them 18th and Bartorovic has them 25th Missouri despite being the better seed in this game is outside the top 50 by all three of those rating systems Utah State is 14th in adjusted offense and per Ken Palm and they check pretty much every box You could want in an offense they get up plenty of threes they're ranked 50 57th nationally in three point attempt rate and they are 69th in Free throw attempt rate so they take all the threes they get to the line a lot Which is how you get to be the 14th ranked offense in the country They're also respectable 64th and adjusted defense They've lost eight games this year, but three of the eight losses were to a really good San Diego State team And of those three losses two were by a combined seven points So I like Utah State to give past Missouri and if that happens I'd actually give them a finding chance against Arizona's who they'd likely see in the second round Yeah, so Utah State again the 10 seed they are minus one and a half on the spread at minus 110 But Austin taking the money line here at minus 120 just want to look quickly at these sweet 16 odds For Utah State because you do like as you mentioned their path to potentially get there But it could be maybe you're betting the spread for them in the second round They are plus 440 to advance to the sweet 16. That's actually not terrible I know they're facing the two seed in the second round, but Relative to what we saw for Kent State and Drake. That's not terrible I think you can probably do better honestly pairing the two money lines together taking the Utah State money line in both games But plus 440 is consideration for them when it comes to that but again Austin going the money line at minus 120 for that first game And the else you like there in the South Region Austin No, not not not none. I'm really seeing like I said just as a fan I'm excited for that West Virginia Maryland games. I think those teams are pretty good But nothing betting lies. Okay, let's shift over to the West now The West four games going on on Thursday and three of the four games have spreads of less than three points So a lot of potentially close games here and he bet stand out to you in the West Austin This is my favorite region by far. I think the West is absolutely loaded Easily the toughest region by our numbers here at number fire I'm super intrigued by the Northwestern Boise State game I think it's a market versus metrics clash pretty much all the projection sites out there have Boise State It's a slight favorite The line opened as such with Boise a slim favor, which is what you'd expect But the wine line quickly on Sunday night in a span of a couple hours flipped to Northwestern being a slim Favorite and that's where it still stands as Northwestern is minus 120 on the money line in the one-and-a-half point favorite Despite what the metrics say and again almost all of them have Boise State as a better team I'm gonna jump on board with the market in the line movement and take Northwestern at minus 120 And what should be a really close and fun game? I did not pay you to say this as I'm wearing my Northwestern hat here on the stream And I thought that that was super interesting because right when it was announced to Northwestern was playing I Saw basically all you know Northwestern Twitter saying oh boy You know they were expecting Boise to be like a one-to-two point favorite to what they opened as you mentioned so I was kind of shocked honestly that this line moved towards Northwestern because didn't enter on the best string Struggling the Big Ten tournament there one game there is only one game they played Friday They had a couple rough games towards the end of the regular season two, but they do have like higher profile wins So how do you reconcile that for yourself? You know when you're looking at a team that has some wins against Purdue against Indiana, but Is Northwestern and also struggled a bit down the stretch How do you kind of reconcile those two things especially when the metrics favor Boise State in this game? Yeah, I think it's just super interesting game. I'm really excited to see how it plays out because Yeah, I Normally would side with the metrics and if the line had just stayed at one and a half minus one and a half for Boise State I I would have actually been interested in in betting Boise State to cover the spread But the line movement carries a lot of weight with me sure and those Like obviously the books are intelligent They know that everyone's gonna be checking can palm our tour rich, etc And so they're basically when I look at this line, I feel like fatal sports because daring you To bet on Boise State, right? So Usually in that situation that I want to be on the other side I want to be on the side that seems like maybe it doesn't quite make sense. Yeah, I still have not bet this game Undecided if I will do I want to get the emotional hedge in there? I can't bet Northwestern because I'd go strictly by the numbers and sports. I don't know But we'll see if I get the emotional hedge in there or not before Thursday in the West Okay, let's talk about the Midwest now It is four games there as well spreads here not quite as tight as they were in the West We talked about the Midwest Austin anything stand out to you there. I Like the over in the Auburn, Iowa eight nine game the totals set at 151.5 I was a super over friendly team, which won't surprise anybody who's seen them play The overs one out and eight of their past 12 games on Ken Palm their third and adjusted offense 167th in defense and 66 and adjusted tempo So they play really fast or pretty fast their elite on offense and kind of stink on defense So, yeah, obviously they're an over friendly team Auburn's much more well-rounded, but the overs still cashed in for their previous five games Our model and Bart Orvic both have the over Being the side to be on Bart Orvic is a lot more bullish than we are they have the total at 156 points Okay, so I'm not quite that bullish, but I do side with the over in that game Yeah, that's the Auburn, Iowa game the eight nine game 151.5 right now is the total for that game as you mentioned, Iowa plenty of offense there Auburn similar thing as well So that could be intriguing and if both Bart Orvic and number fire lean towards the over there I think that we could see some fireworks for that game So 151.5 minus 110 on the over in that one the lone region. We have not yet discussed just a couple of games down the east Austin So it's possible. We're not seeing a whole lot here oral Roberts against Duke. We got ULL against Tennessee looking at those two games anything you like for the east region Yeah, I'm taking oral Roberts to cover as a six point dog Dukes obviously playing very well right now probably the best they played all season But I think it's pretty easy to make a case for Duke being slightly overrated For one the ACC was way As we referenced earlier with Miami Dukes the only team in the Ken Palm top 33 from the ACC Duke also went seven and two in five point games So they caught some close game luck or Roberts is 56 on Ken Palm and is led by their offense, which is 23rd by Ken Palm's adjusted offense They're 34 Sorry, they're 34 and I've lost just once since November 22nd. So they obviously know how to win games I'm gonna knock Duke for being the ACC I'm gonna have to say something about or Roberts going undefeated in the what was a poor summit league, but Oral Roberts actually played a very good non-conference schedule. They played Houston, St. Mary's Utah State New Mexico and Liberty New Mexico and Liberty didn't make the dance but are both top 60 squads on Bartorovic and Liberty just beat Villanova last night in the NIT Bartorovic has a or Roberts losing by four point nine points And our model feels even more strongly about the Golden Eagles. We have him losing by two point six So I'm on Oral Roberts to cover the six and a half points. Yeah, six and a half minus 115 is the number there for Oral Roberts to cover Against Duke and it sounds like you're kind of going into this overall tournament Under the assumption that the ACC this year is not what it was previously and that's something we talked about with Ed as well He we were talking about the ACC tournament last week And I think I asked him, you know any takeaways for you from the futures market He said I think the conference sticks that was his first takeaway was that you know just overall not in on the ACC and it sounds like for you both with the Miami discussion and with this Duke discussion It sounds like you're kind of going in with the assumption the ACC might be a bit overvalued in the markets And I think that making assumptions like that and having bets that are correlated to that assumption I think that pays off for the big ten spent kind of the conference It's gotten most the talk as far as like it sucks this year But the ACC I think is in in that consideration set as well. It sounds and it sounds like that's where you're leading as well Yeah, absolutely. I think the ACC has definitely been worse than the big ten and then both are obviously down from where we usually have them, you know, I've Lived in big 10 country my whole life and typically Probably in too biased when it comes to my brackets and bets and will overvalue the big 10 Yeah, this year. I'm pretty low on them. So I'm expecting to see at least two of them in the final four, right? Yeah, as long as one of them value, I'm totally fine with it So yeah, I I'm the same way where I have been too high in the big 10 to my detriment in the past Not doing that this year very few wins for the big 10 in my bracket But hopefully one of them is Northwest and hopefully we get IU there as well That is Austin cast make sure you check him out on Twitter at Austin cast and find his work over a number You mentioned a couple articles. He has written those are up over at number five So you can check those out to finalize your bracket Austin Good luck to IU. Good luck to you as well and looking forward to talking to you once again here in the very near future Sounds good. Thank you. All righty again. Austin is on Twitter at Austin cast We're gonna back on here on the show a couple a next week talk about some Sweet elite eight games. So that'll be a lot of fun. Get awesome back on the air then to break down those Should be a good time as always now as mentioned Do you want to dive into some NASCAR here before we close up shop for today? Cuz not gonna have a whole lot of time to do that later on this week the NASCAR Cup series and the truck series and the extended series all out in Atlanta for this week. So wanted to run through quickly what my numbers are saying and Didn't get a lot of time to prepare notes on this because the the non outright markets just went up Basically half an hour before record. I believe I didn't see them before then so want to run through my numbers saying here in Atlanta for the NASCAR Cup series and looking at the outrights only a couple spots from seeing value those two spots are bubble walls at 20 to 1 Eric Jones at 30 to 1 you can find Jones 35 at the William Hill shops So shop around if you want to bet Eric Jones do that bubble wall is 20 to 1 you can also get 22 on him I believe at MGM right now. So shop around in both those guys But I would say if we're talking fandals specifically both them have very good podium odds bubble walls in the podium market Plus 650 Eric Jones. I believe it's 11 to 1. Yes. He is 11 to 1 I think both those numbers might be a tiny bit better than the outrights I've got Wallace at 14.9% to podium and I've got Eric Jones at 14.4% the reason that I have both those guys there is two fold first thing is they're on Teams that are fast enough on the mile and a half. I know Eric Jones in Las Vegas was not like phenomenal by any means But he wasn't pitiful either in that race Eric Jones in Las Vegas 15th place average running position in Fontana. He was 16th He kind of struggled to work his way through the pack in Fontana starting all the way in the back so I think that made sense and The speed for legacy doesn't seem as good as it was last year But it's also again not prohibitively bad where we should ignore him on a track where drafting is heavily involved So that's why I like Jones as for Wallace. He had good speed in Vegas He finished in the top five there had an eighth place average running position So good speed on the mile and a half and we know Wallace is one of the better pack racers in all of NASCAR so He's plus 650 to podium Jones is 11 to 1. I like both those numbers So if you're betting fandals specifically, I'd probably lean towards those two podium markets versus the outrides and those two guys You can get Jones 35 to 1 to win. I'd probably take that Wallace 22 would probably lean a bit towards that over the outright as well Versus the 20 to 1 market at Fandals So I think those are the two guys as far as outrides or podium odds where I'm seeing value as far as top 10s go I do have Eric Jones showing value there as well. So Not surprisingly back all in on Eric Jones once again this week Eric Jones finished top 10 at Fandal is plus 250 I have met 41.3 percent to finish inside the top 10. That's actually a pretty high number so Maybe it's a bit too high, but 41 percent for me versus 29 percent at plus 250 I think that gap is pretty large So I can be off on Eric Jones and still show value and I want to take that So what I would do with Eric Jones kind of layer things put a bit on the top 10 market put a little bit less on the podium market So you can profit if you finish inside the top 10, but then have a really good day Should he podium win etc. etc. I think that he is a good layering candidate in that regards Eric Jones Plus 250 first top 10 bet I want to turn towards the next one that I have showing values a bit lower on the board That's Austin Dillon Not only sure why but Austin Dillon's plus 360 to finish inside the top 10 at Fandal Sportsbook We saw the speed from the RCR cars at Daytona He and Kyle Bush started the final restart or second to last restart on the front row together and Dillon was a legit threat to win That race he won in Daytona last year he's a two-time Daytona winner and I think that RCR will have enough speed on this track type to be very good. So I have Dillon at 25.3% to finish inside the top 10 his implied odds 21.7% of plus 360 big enough gap for me. So Good enough speed very good pack racer Dillon checks enough boxes where I'm fine going there Looking briefly at other spots where I'm showing value right now in the top 10 market. I Do show value and tie Gibbs. He's six to one to finish inside the top 10 I think it's fair to be skeptical of the talent on Gibbs not in terms of overall talent. He's very talented, but Can he be a good pack racer in the cup series immediately? I don't know but Atlanta is going to be more of a speed-centric track than Daytona was and we saw Gibbs win the Exinity series race in this track last year He may win the overtime it ran a bit late and he said that he missed a date because of the race going long, but hey, he won the race So probably a fair trade-off for him Gibbs at six to one. I think is very intriguing. I've got my 22.5% I've been a little bit too high and Gibbs so far this year versus the markets his implied odds though 14.3% so similar to Jones a lot of wiggle room to be off on him and still show value so I think that's fine and I'm okay going there so Tie Gibbs six to one finish inside the top 10. I do like that. I have not decided whether to bet these other ones I do want to list other spots where I'm showing value right now though. Just in case so Jones a big one then Dylan then Gibbs Other spots where I see a bit of value Justin Haley plus 340 Very good pack racer. I Have a group bet on him and I have a group bet on him in the Exinity series race this week as well Not a ton of value 25.1% for me versus 22.7% implied Pretty small gap Ryan praise plus 480. I have a 21.2% versus 17.2% implied decent gap Not sure if I'll get there, but it is a decent gap Michael McDowell has not had good speed on the mile and a half's or the non drafting tracks this year Bit worrisome. I have an 18% to finish top 10 versus 16.7% implied Might go there. I've got speed or some value on Josh Berry at 5 to 1 not a big fan of him in terms of his drafting skill But again, Hender cars will be fast this weekend. That does matter more in Atlanta than it does in Daytona And then other one that I see here is Cori La Joy who almost won Atlanta last year I have met 20% to finish top 10 versus 16.7% implied and then Harrison Burton 2 at plus 650 So a lot of guys in the the 6 to the the 3 to 6 range in terms of finishing top 10 I'm seeing value on I think if I had to guess right now, I will take Jones. I will take Dylan I will likely take Gibbs If I had to pick someone else, I'm probably gonna go towards honestly I would lean towards McDowell at 5 to 1 just because I trust the pack racing acumen He won at Daytona a couple years ago The speed is okay enough for me to be there So I would say likely McDowell the fourth guy would go towards so I check out the podium odds for Eric Jones Check out the podium odds for bubble walls But then also top 10 odds for Eric Jones plus 250 tie Gibbs 6 to 1 Austin Dylan plus 360 and then likely McDowell 5 to 1 other spot I am turning towards for this week in Atlanta That is all that we have here for today on the show though want to give a big Thank you to Austin cast for swinging by breaking down his thoughts on the Thursday games Find him on Twitter at Austin cast find his work at number fire comm reminder. We are back again later on today We'll talk to Ben Steven's the sports grid big 10 then to get his read on the Friday games across the NCAA men's tournament Let you know where he is seeing value there to get that as it is posted Make sure you're subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast also check us out over on the fandal YouTube page Where these shows go up each and every weekday No show tomorrow on Thursday because the two for today then back on Friday top NFL free agency with Ryan Williams We'll talk to you all once again in the very near future should be a fun couple of days in sports This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Here's another one of my non sci-fi reviews to use as filler stay with me Okay, I bought this book online a couple of years ago because I Was buying some other books and I saw that it was available for a dollar So I just threw it in and I've I've always been curious about what's the difference between the book and the movie I've heard people talk about it for many many years. I thought I'd go ahead and give it a look Short story. It's awful for those of you who don't know breakfast at Tiffany's is about a young woman named Holly go lightly living in Manhattan the story is told from the point of view of a man a neighbor of hers who watches her life fall apart She's a liar and she's manipulative, but she's gorgeous. So everybody's in love with her and Then the story ends In the movie the the guy who's narrating the thing Ends up getting together with her they fall in love they kiss the movie ends the book that doesn't happen in the book She's a prostitute in the movie. She is not if you've seen the movie she has Friends over there are people in and out of her apartment all the time She's always having parties those men that are in her apartment Those are her customers as I implied with my description of the story earlier. I didn't have any sympathy for her I didn't really care about her at the end of the written version She ends up leaving New York and nobody knows where she's gone In fact, that's how the story starts with Fred who's unnamed in the book. He's at the bar Down on the first floor of his building and he and the bartender see a photograph of a wooden Carving that looks exactly like her and the photograph was taken somewhere in Africa like Kenya or Tanzania somewhere in darkest Africa which it would have been considered in the 1940s the question remains How did she end up traveling through the middle of Africa? And so he tells a story about how he saw this girl move into his building and I guess that's the big mystery of the book The big controversy because it's never answered Where she went after she left New York and that's that's the thing about non science fiction books And it's the reason that I read science fiction is because I want something Interesting and unusual to happen in what I'm reading something to hold my attention and in books like breakfast at Tiffany's Which are considered non-john refiction. That's the word for it. Just the stuff you find in the fiction section There is nothing to hold my interest If if breakfast at Tiffany's is considered shocking or controversial then I'm like, okay There's a story that HP Lovecraft wrote and I haven't mentioned Lovecraft very often I reviewed one of his books way back near the beginning when I started these and I haven't really mentioned him since because he was Such an awful racist. He he was really awful, but he read this one story that had a long title that I forget It's like the facts in the case of so-and-so. I forget about a guy who runs out into the street in public and sets himself on fire in the middle of the street because He discovered that His great-great grandmother was a gorilla Besides having a hideous racial implications The reason he wrote the story was because he was sick of seeing all these bland Popular stories written by people like Hemingway and other authors who were popular at the time He was sick of seeing those stories and people considering them shocking and controversial When there was nothing interesting in the stories at all like the big shock would be that somebody had an affair So it's one of those stories that you read it on its own merits and it just seems stupid But then when you understand why he wrote it. It's actually a pretty good joke So breakfast at Tiffany's made me think of that because nothing happened in it One of the things by the way, I was wondering about as far as differences I've heard people say that Fred was gay in the book and I never saw any indication of that in the book. It never said that Fred is gay I didn't even see it even implied Fred never has a relationship with Holly and he says repeatedly throughout the book that he's completely in love with her So if you're gonna take the words of the book at face value It's not there So next time you watch the movie ask yourself if Audrey Hepburn weren't so physically beautiful Would you care about Holly go lightly at all would you sympathize with her at all? Because there's nothing about her character about her behavior that if you ask me is in any way charming or endearing and The book made that worse thank you for watching please subscribe and Please press that like button. That's how my videos get seen and remember 30-second sci-fi and my other work are supported by patrons so please visit the links here on the screen and in the description below and Consider becoming a patron and remember you can make a one-time donation you


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Graph. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got another Father's Day themed project, however obviously you can use this for anything. You can decorate this in more feminine colours and prints. It's entirely up to you. It can be used, well I'm using it as a bottle kind of caddy, but you can use this as storage. It's a really handy storage piece. It's come together really well. It's solid. It's all made from chipboard so it's got a very similar I guess yeah in the way that I've put it together it's very similar to the shed, the little craft shed storage box which so many of you have really enjoyed. So I kind of go you know if I start using chipboard I kind of have a bit of a run with it and seem to make a few things so I thought I'm going to give this a go. I wanted a way that I could give heavy bottles of beer as a gift and it's something that it's just really hard to do unless you use a chipboard. You can use 300, 350 gsm cardstock but you do kind of have to double it up and also strengthen the base and it can just take some time whereas this came together in no time and it's using very very thick chipboard which is the one that I get from every crafts of pound. All of that I will talk you through in a moment but these are your standard bottle sizes so these are 500 mils. Yeah I think they're all 500 mils. This one here I think is a little bit bigger. Oh no 500 mils but it is a wider bottle but it will hold them. So the width of these here I've only done one divider. The width is two and I think it's two and seven eight something like that. Again I'll go through it all with you. Now I haven't done a divider going that way because I just think it's going to get a little bit too fiddly. All I'm going to do is just pop some cardboard in between these bottles here because ideally afterwards it's going to then be used again and you know you can put more things in it. So if you want to do the extra dividers by all means you can but I'm just going to keep it with just the one but as you can see it holds those bottles really well and it does hold them. I've carried them around I know they're empty but I did put water in and it will hold them. This is solid nothing is going anywhere and once you see how I put it together the two sides are actually attached underneath with a hinge which is concealed so there's no way the base is going to fall out. So it is really really strong I'm confident this is going to hold these bottles so yeah let me show you how to make it. Okay so you're going to need some papers so the ones I'm using are from the world at heart 12 by 12 paper pad. I've had this a while it's by first edition and it's just a lovely collection really it's got some really nice kind of background papers so and like wood grain so I'm using that one today which I'll show you now. Again I'll share links for that one if I can find them because it is an older paper pack so I've already gone ahead and done a lot of them like I always like to do. Okay so I'm going to be using this wood grain one here so two pieces of 12 by 12 you need for this one in terms of your pattern paper then you'll need two pieces of chipboard that are six by 11 and three quarters. This chipboard is what I buy from Every Crafts a Pound so you get I think it's four A4 sheets two 12 by 12 sheets and then you get eight by eight and four by six by six sorry so it's really good yeah I love it. This particular size is the I think it's three mil it's kind of right in the middle of the two to three but I'm pretty sure it's it's I think it's three because I've got other two mil ones and they're a bit flimsier this one you can hardly bend it's a really really strong one so two pieces of that size and that is going to be what we're used to create the large sides of the caddy and then you will need that's all the decorative paper pieces then you need two pieces that are six by four and you'll also want four pieces of decorative paper the same size so I've already decorated these sides of it and then on the other side here I have my other pieces of decorative paper to cover okay so that's my four pieces and then two pieces of chipboard and then for the base you want a piece of six by six and also something to cover both sides so I've covered one side and I've just used craft card and I've just dressed it so the easiest way to do that is I'm just using the frayed burlap this is just one of the distressed inks and I just literally went around with the ink pad itself so you can use a blending brush if you want and then I just swiped over the top and you can see there you just get a really nice effect so it's a very quick way to distress and you also want to wipe the ink pad or use your you know your blending brushes along the actual side as well just to kind of dirty that up if you want to okay also I just want to say for anybody who hasn't cut chipboard before because I've obviously already prepared all of my pieces if I just grab some scrap I've just got this piece here this is the trimmer that I use for cutting chipboard and I've actually got the whenever I've used the blade and then they become blunt I just put a black pen mark on them and I use them to cut you know things like this because they actually still work really well and you just hold it down you have to run it over a few times and then turn it over make sure I've got the right because it will you can just snap it off if you want to but if you just pop it back in and just run over the top it comes away nicely there okay so yeah always use your older blades or keep something like I said this now really is just all I use because I use my guillotines for my paper so this just stays like this for when I use it for chipboard you will also want a piece of six by seven and a half this is just a strong cardstock and this is what we're going to use to attach the two larger sides okay but once we get to that then you can decide what it is you want to use okay so you are going to have two pieces of this size that I mentioned and what we want to do here is we want to create this shape so the easiest way to do that I'm using a pen just because it shows up well in the video so you've got your six by eleven and three quarters okay coming up each side from the bottom here you want to come up four inches so it's the same width sorry the same height as these pieces here so if I just lay that there right from the bottom you'll see it we're starting here which is four inches up so on each side you just want to mark a pen mark at four inches then along the very top this is obviously six inches wide you want to come in two inches and put a little pen mark and then come in that side there and put a pen mark so I've got a pen mark at two and four and then you want to come down two inches from each of those markers so straight as you can come down and put a little marker there I'm just going to re-line that up like so and again put a little marker there at two and then just draw a pen mark down to it and then you're going to join up these two markers down to that four inch one that you done at the bottom here okay so obviously I've done mine but that is then what you have and then the easiest way to cut this is with your pen knife and ruler so I'm just going to lie my ruler down here and just make sure that's nice and secure and just cut it off may need to go over it a few times this knife is pretty sharp you will feel once you hit your mat on the bottom obviously make sure you have a you know self-healing mat some some protective mat okay you can see there where it's cut away and then I'm just going to come up from that other one okay and then that all comes away nicely so I'm just going to do the same on the other side okay so now I have my side so you need to do that twice so you will have your two like I have here next you need to then create your shape to paper to be able to stick on top and the easiest way to do that is just trace around now what I would say is trace around each one separately so don't do like this one trace it here and then trace it four times to cover the two sides on this and the two sides on that because you've cut this free hand each one might be slightly different so I'm going to trace this one on one piece and then I would trace this one on another piece okay because yeah like I said they may just be slightly different so this one here was just traced around this one and you'll see it just fits on there perfectly whereas this one might be slightly different to that one there so all I done is just pop it right down in the bottom corner where you can see I thought I was out of shot then right down like so so almost two sides are already kind of done for you and then I'm just going to draw around the rest okay and again although they should be an exact mirror image of each other one side might be just slightly different so I would just put one on here and one on there and then turn this one upside down and again line it right up in the very corner there and draw down and just draw around it again like so and obviously you know that that's two but then you just do that okay so then we know we're sticking them onto the right side that we traced and you want to do that again with your other piece all right then you're just going to cut them out and just cut slightly in from the pencil mark because you've probably made it slightly bigger because the pencil has to rest against this and it will stick out ever so slightly you see there how far a pencil sticks out so if you cut in then yeah we'll just shrink it down and make it fit better and anything you do still have overhanging we will trim off okay you can discard all the paper unless you like to keep those bits for your scrap and then you want to stick just one side down okay you don't want to stick both so I'm just going to stick the one that says one so I'm going to stick that right over here now I like to use my tacky glue for this just because I find that this once it's stuck it's stuck it's not coming off and because this is intended to last for a very long time I like to use this now it does stay tacky so if it oozes out the side um even when you wipe it away it may still be sticky but I'll show you a good way to tidy that up I'm really focused on the edges because you want them to be you know sealed down you don't want them to be lifting or anything okay so and that all up and then I'm just going to go over it all with my bone folder again just making sure all that glue is spread out and then what you can do is if you feel anything that's sticky like I can feel a sticky stickiness there these are brilliant and these are the adhesive removers or Xyron I think it is the rubber I share links to it but now that's completely gone so although you can't see it you will be able to feel it like up here I can feel it's quite sticky and because this will always stay tacky you want to try and do this because this is when this is the areas where dust would end up settling over time so again if it is a decorative piece it is handy to have one of these um these rubbers I love mine I wouldn't be without it now okay and then if you flip it over if you've got anything overhanging like I've got little bits of white you can just about see there again the easiest way to remove that is to use your knife and just line it up against the chipboard and it will come obviously come away perfectly and you get a really nice finish okay so I'm happy with that now you want to just stress it up a little bit so again I'm just bringing in my actual ink pad itself and just running it around all the corners this particular color actually dries a bit lighter um so yeah I like said I really like this one and again go along the sides as well okay so what you should have now is two pieces that you've decorated on just one side next you want to create the hole it's easy to do that now while we've got it kind of flat and um yeah I just find it easy to do as much as you can really when things are you know not made up yet so I'm just going to sit this over the top and just trace through the hole I've already made so basically you just want to punch a hole in the middle there and then trace it on to the next one that way you know that you'll have them both the same and then because it's chipboard this is the copper dial and it is brilliant for very very thick materials I never have any problems with this if you don't have this though then what I would say is if you grab um like a pokey tool where can I find I can never find what I want when I want to yeah there we go so just something like this and just maybe kind of work a hole into it first and then just kind of make it bigger you could use you can use some hole punches but you might have to really work them quite a bit so once you've made the hole now because I'm going to be using the wooden dowels that I've been talking about these are from the works again all the products that I'm using will be the links will be shared where I can these are slightly bigger than the copper dial hole that I have so the easiest way that I found to make it bigger is I just got a normal pencil and just started literally twisting it through and eventually the pencil will go right the way through like so and just twisted around and now my dowel is going to fit nicely through there and go all the way across to the other one okay but we're going to cut all that and do all that near the time but if you at least get the holes ready now it's going to make it much easier later on okay so with these other two pieces you need to decorate two sides of them as well so you should have left over two pieces of paper to stick down on the other sides of these two pieces and then two pieces of this shape to stick down on the backs of these okay so I'm going to pop that to one side next we want our base this piece of six by seven and a half and the two of the larger ones so these two here okay so first of all what you want to be doing is the side that I've decorated this is what I want facing me I haven't done anything with this piece because I'm going to be sticking it right over this kind of cream piece of cardstock and then I can distress it up and you know if I need to but because it's on the bottom I'm not too worried now you want to sit it in the middle and it will be exactly the same width but you want to make sure that you've got I think it's three quarters of an inch overhang I don't know why I'm using this ruler because it looked nice but it doesn't actually really work well yeah three quarters of an inch you want overhanging on each side so you want to add some glue to this okay so again just make sure that it says you know even as you can get it these are going to act as hinges they're almost like a bit of a reinforcement I wanted the side pieces that are going to have the handle to be obviously they're connected to the base but I wanted them to be connected with a piece of kind of good strong card as well as the hot glue flip it over and again just make sure that that is all stuck down and then you just want to fold up the sides so the decorative side needs to face up because that's just so it looks nice when people kind of look inside it really and just take off any glues but yeah do get it all distressed and everything before you know you stick it down next what's going to happen these two again with the pattern facing up because you're going to decorate the outsides once it's all put together it's really easy now I'm going to try and make sure I can keep this all in shop when you bring up this this is going to be lying inside here so it's going to be against it like that it's not going to be on top like that you want to make sure it's right on the side okay now if you bring it up and lie it next to it like so and then if you hold it in place but bring it back out that gap that forms is where we want to then stick this piece you know underneath here that is the gap that will allow us to bring that back up and not crack this paper bellow now mine is already stained because the ink I've used and I think with the glue is actually left a mark for me so I can just now just literally put some glue all along there like so and then just stick that down like so but you have to have this gap it's about one eighth of an inch it will be the thickness of the chipboard okay and like I said it's it's two to three mil which is about one eighth of an inch just shy of it if I lie that in there that yeah it is it's one eighth of an inch but depending on the chipboard you're using yours might be you know slightly different but now if I bring that up it sits in there really nicely and then I've got this hinge and it's just going to help hold you know basically just to keep it all nice and strong but I'm really pleased that that's come together well so you want to do the same with this side here again I can see a line that is formed all the way down there from the ink so I'm just going to add my glue so now we can already see how how cool is this and it really does look I think the paper you know that would affect there in the base it's starting to really come together so next I'm going to pop it on its side and we're going to start sticking these in now again you want to stick the pattern side in first I just thought it's easy to decorate that way and the outside is going to be very very easy but these pieces are actually going to sit inside here so they're going to be on top of the base and inside these two sides and it should all perfectly fit which it does like so now we're going to be using hot glue and we're going to be putting it together very similar in a very similar way to how I done the craft shed and also how I do a lot on my storage boxes so don't worry that any glue might be visible because these hinges the you know you're going to need four that are one inch by four and one eighth of an inch you need the extra one eighth because that basically is the height of this base and once they are on there once obviously it's decorated it's going to look really nice so that will also you know cover the glue so what I'm going to do first of all is make sure your pattern is facing inwards is run a bead of hot glue all the way along here like so and just stick that one down if you can wipe away any excess glue just before it's starting to really kind of cure you should be able to pick it off which I have and that stays there perfectly now so once we put glue on these two sides obviously that's going to really hold in place like that so next you want to do the other side okay so that's my two sides they're nice and strong and then each of these sides is going to come up and you may need to just pull them out a little bit but they are going to stick perfectly and already you can see how nice it's looking inside so this is going to now where it starts to get a little bit fiddly I guess you need to run the glue down both these sides because once you lift up this piece that's it so it's a bit like the she-shed that I done you have to kind of act a bit quicker so I'm just going to run my glue there but again you've got your hinges going on this as well so that will also help but I'm happy with that and just bring it up and make sure that they look both obviously line up perfectly each end like so I'm really happy with that you can see that if I bring it up on the sides how that all looks and again we're going to be covering all this and distressing all of the corners and edges so it's all going to you know you should be you know struggle really to see where it's all kind of joined up and because the glue's clear I mean there's the odd little bit that's come out but you can't see you can't see that glue in there at all but again do the same with the other side okay that is so strong guys this is it literally feels like you know plywood it's just it's brilliant I love this so much so now you just need to decorate all of your four sides so I've got my two pieces here so these are going to go on the front here like so again the chipboard should be exposed I mean my intention wasn't to cover that because you're distressing it all so that's for the front and the back and then these pieces also I've got number two there so that's going to cover that piece completely you can see that and the other one so I'm going to go and get them all stuck down okay so there is my caddy all covered really pleased with it and now I need to add my little kind of hinges and these are like I said act as a reinforcement but also quite decorative as well I'm going to go around and stick these down so I just again if I've got the measurements it's one by four and one eighth of an inch that one eighth of an inch is important because it does give you that little bit of extra height and then score along the one inch side at one half an inch sorry and then just to stress them so I've already distressed all of these and you just stick them on each side and it's exactly the same as what I did with that little shed and yeah like I said it hides all the glue but also does look good as well okay so there's on my corners so now I'm going to go around and just stress it even more because I've got obviously the base here which is obviously very crisp and once everything's been stuck it's got a bit of a different obviously look but if you start now messing it all up it really does blend everything together you can see there like I said this particular burlap one does go on darker and then kind of dries lighter but I'm going to go around now and just really mess up all of these corners okay so I've messed that all up a bit more now and I'm really pleased with that I think it looks great so next I'm just going to go back through those holes with my pencil just to kind of help them along I actually quite like the way see that nice kind of distressed look there as well so that's going to frame the you know the doweling and it goes through okay so these are all cut to the same length when you buy them you get 10 in a pack the length of these are yeah so yeah 30 centimetres or just over 30 centimetres 12 inches so I don't want it to be that long obviously you may want to that's entirely up to you but I just want a little bit overhanging because I'm going to plan on wrapping some rope around the edges there just to kind of cover any glue but to stop it obviously you know falling out but I think that's enough to be able to hold it so I'm going to just roughly work out what I need and then I'll let you know okay so I'm going to cut mine to that's eight and a quarter so yeah eight and a quarter okay so as I showed you in my gift bag that I made I just start it off with my knife I need to change this blade because it's really been put through the mill we're cutting all these projects lately so I just kind of work it around all of the edge and then I've just been able to snap off the end there and you can see just where I didn't get the knife so I have got some pliers as well but I'm just going to use that for now I have this little bit of sandpaper and I'm just going to just flatten the end of like so and then I'm going to just stress the whole thing in this so just stress at the ends and I'm going to just rub the whole thing in my ink pad okay you may want to paint yours it's entirely up to you but I just want to keep it all matching so now if I slide that through once I add a bit of glue and the rope around it I think that's really cool and you could have something dangling off the side if you wanted so yeah I like that a lot okay I'm going to use some of this rope here that I've got it's £1.29 for eight meters roughly and it's by that craft company which I mentioned before they usually stop it in the range but I'm going to just twist some rope around the very ends here just to stop that wooden stick sliding off like so you can see that's what I'm going to do so I'm just going to add because it's starting to unravel some hot glue so I just want to make sure that you've got a nice even overhang okay so you can see what I've done there I've just stuck a little ball of kind of string just at the end so I'm going to do the same on the other side okay so that's all done next we need to put the dividers in which is really easy okay so I was just crafting away and realised I didn't hit record but this piece in the middle here that you'll see I've just used is five and three quarters by four so it's the same height as these side pieces and then it's come in by quarter of an inch which is taking basically into account these two widths of this chipboard which is on top of this six inch piece so if you take a quarter of an inch away you're left with five and three quarters which is this width here and it means it fits in there perfectly and doesn't your sides don't bow out so what I've done to stick it in is I've just done a bead of the art glitter glue along three sides just the sides here in the bottom that way when you slide it in you know the this glue is going to you know kind of slide on the sides but it's going to dry clear and it's it's already really stuck it's just setting a little bit there and any of the kind of glue you might be able to see inside there is going to dry completely clear but I think in terms of dividers I'm just going to keep that one if I'm really pleased with how this is all coming together so far it fits the bottles perfectly like I said I don't think I'm going to do the other dividers what I might do just so they don't jangle is just put some card in between these two just so they don't kind of you know hit against each other but I'm not going to do another divider I think that works and it does it holds really well I know these are empties but I you can just tell you'll know yourself what you the kind of weight you can get away with it with so I'm now going to look for some nice decorative kind of hardware for the front and a nice little topper okay so I'm almost there so I've just gone and punched out a load of silver circles using my punch here so this is just a yeah a normal hole punch and then when you have your little circle I'm just using the backside of my knife here and basically I'm just as if I'm cutting it but obviously it's blunt doing a cross through the middle and it will give you a very small looking screw and I've stuck them all along the front there and you can see I think they look really effective and then I went over them with my the same distressed ink so I'm just going to lean this one and then I'm just going to add some glue it's going just here and just stick that one again that's completely optional and then I've gone and stamped this one here which says here's to a top chap now I don't want to add any bows but I do want to add something to make it look like a tag so obviously that's what it is so I'm just going to punch the hole there and then again I'm going to distress it a little bit with this color so just catching the ends it just pulls everything together I'm just going to put a little bit around like that and then I'm going to go back over it with that one there we go just want it to really you know all blend in well and then yeah that's going to look nice and then I've just got the same broke and I'm actually this time unraveling it so and I will cut off so much then but I want it all unraveled like so and I'm going to try and get all of that through here and then just feed it back through like so and again dirty the tops of that up okay I don't think I'm going to need that much hanging over so I'm going to trim that much off just really let it kind of even those then strands can all like kind of break up as well just you know I want it all looking messy it's going to stick on the front here on some foam just to lift it because obviously that's quite um dimensional anyway the knot I've just got some little squares here just going to pop a couple on the back and a couple more again and then stick that one I'm going to do it on an angle I reckon about there and again I'm just going to really finish it all off now everything's together so if I just bring it up there you can see the front and I am so pleased with how this has come together it makes a beautiful presentation box a little caddy for all of these bottles but also afterwards it's a nice little storage piece as well so like I said at the beginning you don't have to have this for what I've obviously used it for this would make a really nice storage piece in your craft room or you know just for anybody and you can put other gifts in here you can put flowers in here anything you know I think it's just such a lovely way to display something so yeah super pleased with this one so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you like my other idea to use these dowels and yeah hope it's inspired you thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye