Organizing those clamps last week has sort of inspired me to start straightening up other parts of my shop
And I'm going to start with this lumber rack
I made this a long time ago, and it's actually worked out fairly
Well the most important thing was to get my wood up off the floor because this
Area of my shop tends to flood if we get a lot of rain
It's just made with a 2x4 frame and an oSb sheet as a floor I made some little dividers
Just using some PVC pipe, and I just epoxy them into another 2x4 against the wall the idea here
Is that I can store short sheet goods in here in these dividers
And then I can store cut off in this box the problem with this is I can't get very wide
Sheets in here otherwise it just blocks my path most lumber racks are designed to hold a 4X8 sheet of plywood
But I got to tell you I never store four by eight sheets of lumber
And I think I'm like most guys if I have a project that requires plywood and I need to get a sheet of plywood
I'm going to use it right away, [just] for that project
It's not something I buy a whole bunch of plywood to store
but storing half a sheet of plywood is pretty common the only problem is I don't have a good way of storing that and as
I'm getting up into my advanced years its only a matter of time before I break a hip using my current system
So yeah a better system [for] storing 4x4 sheets would be pretty handy
I'm starting by cutting a series of datas on the face
I mean to tip my saw to a five degree angle to make that center panel
And wrap dedos in it for Shelves
I'm cutting five dividers and making an angled cut on each using my bandsaw
I haven't really figured out how I'm going to assemble this. I just know I'm going to start from the base and work my way up
You can watch me struggle with it too. I'm going to mark a line on the backside of these data
So I'll know where to put some screws
So I'm just going to do these panels here one at a time and try to
Steady them with this wood plant
And I'll see if I get some screws in here
Well that worked out surprisingly better than I anticipated [I]?
Think that would be almost impossible to do this without making those dedos to line everything up the center divider should go a lot easier
I'm cutting one edge on each shelf at a five degree Angle I'm
Pre drilling the holes for the shelves from this side, so [I'll] be able to find them on the other side
I'm just getting the screws started on this side. I'm going to start with the bottom shelf and the top shelf
Having these dados in here really help to square it up and pull it together kind of naturally and I've got my five degree angle
[right] here
This tilted panel bit go up here
And I'll glue it and screw it into these two shelves and down here is where I cut that five degree angle on here
I drew a line on here, so I'll know where to put these screws
These two shelves [I'll] cut to fit
I'm going to try to lay it back on my truck and use it as a workbench, [and] this is going to be a trick
Well that was fun. I'm going to [reinforce] the bottom of this with some 3-inch strips
And I can put the casters on well. I've got this turns over all
Right let's see how this goes
Wow, this is really going to hold a lot [more] wood [than] I ever thought
This is also a good opportunity for me [to] throw away a bunch of this wood that I'm probably never going to use like
Why in the world would I save this strip of?
particleboard
Now's when I get to find out if anything has died back behind here
looks pretty good
That'll work