Thread: Coat Rack - Number 1

Over the last month I spent some time in the garage with my better half. She wanted to made three coat racks. Together we managed to make two out of the three.

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We started with a very heavy piece of wood which I thought might be Oregon. It had a creamy sort of tinge of colour, she really wanted it to be deep brown in colour. We agreed to give it a stain of Feast Watson Mahogany as the finish.

Started with squaring up the wood and made a jig to hold this at 45 degrees so she could hand plane the edges down to make it round with the jack plane. There was quite a lot of work associated with this but all three edges were done and we had a round piece of wood.

Then using the smoothing plane along with the block plane at an angle she started to shape the profile.

The base was one piece of wood about 45 to 50 mills thick that had quite a twist in it. I knocked off the corners and continued until I could put it through the thicknesser. The shape was marked out by her and I cut this on the band saw close to the line.

The hole for the base was cut on the drill press straight through with a matching tenon a little longer to allow for a wedge to be inserted.

Sanding was long, as expected, I did most of this.

Applying the coats of finish was done by her.

She wanted it on wheels so we picked these up from bunnings. It has made it a little higher but will see how she feels if this is changed.

The leaves were cut from the same piece of Oregon on the bandsaw as close to a leaf as possible. The final shaping was done using files and the cheese grater that you pick up from Aldi(the finer one works better).

The holes were drilled on the drill press after another jig was created to hold the pole at an angle.