{"id":3339,"date":"2021-07-17T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T01:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2021-07-17T17:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T01:42:36","slug":"diy-modern-coat-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/17\/diy-modern-coat-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Modern Coat Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my time off I&#8217;ve been slowly building up my skills with wood. I&#8217;ve built a couple bigger things (chicken coop 2x, shed 1x, table saw table based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=buZD18Yqp28\">this video<\/a>, planer table based on <a href=\"https:\/\/toolboxdivas.com\/simple-diy-planer-stand\/\">this video<\/a>) but haven&#8217;t really done any indoor projects. I stumbled across this really nice looking coat rack blog post months ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Modern-Coat-Rack\/\">https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Modern-Coat-Rack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and had it on my list to build since then. I made time this week to finally make it happen and I built two of them, to stack, which IMHO, turned out alright:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/aaron_n_karen\/97kj0V\" title=\"Woodworking: Modern Coat Rack\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51317360357_941fd8453d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Woodworking: Modern Coat Rack\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here are some build notes:<\/p>\n<p>1) That blog post doesn&#8217;t start with a cutting list&#8230; which is a bummer because I initially overestimated the thickness of the board that one would need to build this project and unnecessarily spent a bunch of money on a board that was 2 inches thick by 6 inches tall that I&#8217;ll have to find another use for. Lesson #1: build a model first with cheap wood, then buy the expensive stuff.<\/p>\n<p>2) Alternatively, head on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyhandyman.com\/project\/how-to-make-a-wall-mounted-coat-rack\/\">this blog post<\/a>, which has precise dimensions for what you&#8217;ll need to buy.  I ended up over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodcrafters.us\/\">Woodcrafters in Portland<\/a> (after a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosscuthardwoods.com\/\">Crosscut Hardwoods<\/a> for the first board) and found seven foot black walnut board that was about 1&#215;7.  I ended up building 2 racks (an upper and a lower) each measuring about 32 inches long but to start, I cut 2 pieces off of the board and made a model based on the Family Handyman (FH from here on out) dimensions, which worked great.<\/p>\n<p>3) After using my table saw to get a precise 7&#8243; tall board and cutting out two 35&#8243; segments, I started cutting the individual pieces. The FH blog post has a nice graphic that shows how to use a crosscut sled (not yet in my arsenal) and a 1&#8243; spacer but I opted instead to first cut a bunch of ~3&#8243; pieces and then individually cut out the 1&#8243; pieces, which I think is less movement overall.  Either way, I need to make a sled. <\/p>\n<p>4) The two blog posts then diverge&#8230; the Instructables post has you go directly to cutting the angle pieces where the FH post instead has you drill the holes for the dowel.  I followed the Instructables post but in hindsight, it would be have been easier \/ more accurate to first cut the holes for the dowel on every piece. <\/p>\n<p>5) For the drill holes, I clamped (didn&#8217;t build) a jig to my drill press and drilled a 3\/8&#8243; hole with a Forstner bit through each piece. The job would have been tighter if I had built a jig.<\/p>\n<p>6) Cutting the angles on the pieces was easy&#8230; for the 45\u00b0 angle at least&#8230; I had a hard time figuring out how to do the 60\u00b0 angle with my mitre saw until I rotated the piece 90\u00b0 and then clamped a jig to the mitre saw to make that cut repeatable. I&#8217;m still not sure if I did that right though.  FWIW, the Instructables blog post has no information about how to create those cuts.<\/p>\n<p>7) Another divergence in the plan&#8230; the Instructables post has you sand and stain your pieces&#8230; and then build them up on the dowel.  The FH post has you sand, then build, then stain.  I ended up sanding and then staining, which I think slightly expanded the wood, and then trying to insert the dowel, which didn&#8217;t work at all, even after applying wax.  I ended up having to sand the dowel across the entire length multiple times to get the pieces to slide on. <\/p>\n<p>8) Like both posts, I used keyhole hangers (first freehand routing out the hanger shape, then the hanger hole) to hang my rack on the wall&#8230; and after watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lHb-Tcvkn7M&#038;ab_channel=ProjectFarm\">a great YouTube video<\/a> on the subject, landed on these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/E-Z-Ancor-100-lbs-Philips-Pan-Head-Heavy-Duty-Toggle-LockSelf-Drilling-Drywall-Anchors-with-Screws-10-Pack-25220\/100153998\">EZ-Core Drywall Toggle Anchors<\/a>, which after one or two misfires, worked very nicely.  I&#8217;ll never buy a different kind of drywall anchors, those are bomb proof.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/aaron_n_karen\/6YR5T4\" title=\"Woodworking: Modern Coat Rack\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51318303328_900d804880_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Woodworking: Modern Coat Rack\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Overall, a fun and very practical (we have lots of hats and hooded jackets \/ sweatshirts here in Oregon) project, it&#8217;d be fun to do again with a different type of wood and stain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my time off I&#8217;ve been slowly building up my skills with wood. I&#8217;ve built a couple bigger things (chicken coop 2x, shed 1x, table saw table based on this video, planer table based on this video) but haven&#8217;t really done any indoor projects. I stumbled across this really nice looking coat rack blog post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/17\/diy-modern-coat-rack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DIY Modern Coat Rack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}