Shop Stands
Three baltic-birch machine stands with 15 drawers
Shop Stuff
There really is no more fun a project than a shop project. Doing shop stuff is perfect for practicing your craft, honing your skills. And best of all, if you make a mistake, no-one will ever ever notice. Except you of course, where the mistake will be staring at you from across the room, taunting you, snickering, slowly driving you crazy until you are forced to fix it. Ask me how I know.
Design
I modelled everything up in Sketchup, to get all the dimensions right. This time though I also did a layout of all the parts on the various thicknesses of plywood. The outer carcass and drawer fronts are 18mm, the drawers are 15mm, and the carcass backs and drawer bottoms are 6mm. This was about a year into the pandemic, when plywood prices had gone thru the roof, and I didn’t want to make any silly mistakes. Baltic Birch Plywood was going for 250% of its pre-pandemic prices, which was already kind of high.
Details
15 Drawers
These were a lot of fun to make, and they turned out great for the most part. The drawer slides are a little bit fidgety, but they work.
The thing I remember most about this one is that there were 15 drawers here. Yes, 15. Not only do things get very tedious at that count, but also a little scary. Scary because if you have made a mistake on one of them, then there is a good chance that you have made the same goof on all 15. Not a pleasant thought. Thankfully that didn’t happen here, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t sweat it.
Did I mention that there were 15 drawers!!!
Baltic Birch
This was the first time I had done any extensive work with Baltic Birch plywood. This is marvelous stuff to work with, and several notches above anything you can get at the big box stores.
Still waiting on the spindle sander.
All Dressed Up
Ok, I really like this pic, so showing it again in higher resolution. Not really, this is just a placeholder waiting on a pic showing what it looks like today.
Materials
- KJP Select Hardwoods Baltic Birch plywood
- Festool Domino for the drawers
- Richelieu drawer pulls