Tag: DIY
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DIY A-Frame Surfboard Rack
This is a freestanding A-frame rack built to hold surfboards upright, no wall mounting required. It leans against a wall on its own two angled legs, with a plywood tray underneath to catch the base of each board and a row of angled wood dividers along the top rail to keep the boards separated. Project…
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Two-Tone Wood Succulent Planters: A Small Scrap-Wood Project
Not every project in the shop needs a full build sequence to be worth sharing. This one started as a way to use up small hardwood offcuts, cutoffs too short for anything structural but too nice to throw in the scrap bin, and turned into a small batch of two-tone planter blocks sized for succulents.…
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DIY Industrial Pipe Desk Lamp with an Adjustable Arm
A Small Desk Lamp Built From Black Pipe Fittings This is a compact desk or table lamp built almost entirely from black pipe fittings. Four pipe legs come together into an X-shaped base for a low, stable footprint, and a vertical pipe riser carries a standard lamp socket and a vintage-style Edison bulb up top.…
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Rustic Chicken Wire Frame: A Simple DIY Display Board
Not every project needs to be complicated to be worth building. This one started as an ordinary picture-frame moulding and, with a hand-applied stain and a chicken wire insert swapped in for glass, became a simple display board for clipping up photos and cards. Finished Project Overview The finished piece is a wood frame with…
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Wall-Mounted Tool Storage Panel for Squares, Levels, and Saws
Wall-Mounted Tool Storage Panel for Squares, Levels, and Saws Squares, levels, and hand saws are some of the most awkward tools in a shop to store. They’re flat, they’re oddly shaped, and they don’t hang well on a standard pegboard hook. This panel solves that with a simple idea: a row of horizontal wood cleats,…
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Building a Pallet Wood Storage Bin (With a Matching Lumber Rack)
Every shop ends up with two piles that never go away: cut-offs too small to throw out, and full-length boards with nowhere to lean. This build tackles both at once: a fully enclosed rolling storage bin for scraps, and a companion open-divider lumber rack for longer boards, both built the same weekend from the same…
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DIY 2×4 Garage Storage Rack With OSB-Divided Bays
This one’s a build-in-progress: a shop storage rack framed up from 2×4 dimensional lumber, with OSB panels forming divided bays down its length. It’s documented here at the framing and glue-up stage: clamped square in the driveway while the glue cures, before any finish or install decisions were made. Project Overview The rack is built…
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How to Rout a Perfect Circle in Wood With a Simple Shop-Made Jig
Cutting a straight line with a circular saw is easy. Cutting a true circle is a different problem entirely. A jigsaw wanders, a bandsaw needs a steady freehand line, and neither one guarantees the same radius all the way around. The fix doesn’t require a new tool. It just requires turning the router into a…
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3 DIY Vinyl Record Holders You Can Build From Scrap Wood
Not every vinyl project needs to be a full media console or a big storage crate. Some of the most useful pieces in the shop are the small ones: a stand to prop up a favorite album, a simple frame to turn a cover into wall art, or a little holder that keeps one record…
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A DIY Plywood Charging Station for Cordless Tools
Cordless tool batteries and chargers have a way of taking over a workbench: cords tangled together, chargers stacked on top of each other, batteries scattered wherever there’s an open outlet. This build is a shop-made answer to that: a single wall-mounted plywood station that gives every charger a shelf and every drill or driver its…