Hey Guys!
It's Mike from The Geek Pub, and on this episode I'm going to show you how to make this awesome
silverware organizer.
And we're going to do it from a single piece of wood.
So I've got this old silverware storage organizer and its made out of bamboo and its all busted
up and broken and it looks like its been through world war 3.
As a matter of fact its been through a couple of moves and I am surprised it made it through
the first one.
So today, we're going to make a new one!
So I am going to use this piece of three-quarter by five and a half inch red oak and I will
just rip it down to the size I need on the table saw.
I'm going to make all of my two and one-quarter inch cuts at the same time.
That way I only have to move my fence once, and that way know all of my cuts will line
up when I am finished.
S0 ultimately all of these need to be one-quarter of an inch thick.
In order to that I'm going to re-saw them on the table saw and then I'll bring them
to their final dimension on the planer.
So I'm just going to go ahead and sand everything down lightly and I want to make sure I break
over all of these edges so that their not sharp to the touch.
OK.
With my dado stack installed and using a stop block I'm going to cut all of the dados and
the rabbets.
I'm going to go ahead and glue it all up before I make the base.
That way I can make the base a little bit oversized and then route it flush with a flush
tim bit.
So all I need to do now is start glueing it up.
So I cut out this oversized piece of three-sixteenths oak veneer plywood and I am just going to
glue the bottom of the tray and flip it over.
OK.
So all that's left to do now is take a router and trim off all of the excess.
So some of you are probably asking me "So why didn't you cut it to the right size the
first time you bone head?"
The problem is with material this thin it is very likely to warp during the glue up
process.
Maybe as much as a sixteenth of an inch, and using the flush trim bit allows me to get
it perfect even with those imperfections.
I'd like to match our cabinets and our floors fairly close.
In order to do that I've got this Minwax Jacobean stain that's very, very close to what we already
have.
I'm just going to wipe that on with a rag.
And I'm just going to finish it off with a little spray lacquer.
Well that's all it takes to make the silverware organizer.
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As always you can download the plans and Sketchup files for this project and others at TheGeekPub.com!