augernaught
Augernaught
I can not help but think that many people are in the same situation as I am:
I don't have a dedicated space or "work shop" to fabricate my FT inspired DTF builds,
and I end up doing it on the dining room table.........
Anyone who has had to do that knows what a mess it can become
when everything is laying around on your work-surface
when you are trying to fabricate bigger pieces like a wing or fuselage,
not to mention putting all the bigger pieces together in the end!
I searched around for some tackle box type organizers, and "toy" bin & shelf/bucket organizers,
but they were either too small, too big, too expensive, or just not what I needed or wanted.
Just then I looked over at this HUGE stack of DTF board I have acquired,
straightened out, and the thought hit me: what can I do with that stuff and some hot glue?
This is what I came up with, and if you engineer it correctly,
it will hold an amazing amount of weight and "stuff".
Just be sure to arrange gussets under the heavy load bearing shelves!
You truly can not put out a "plan" in PDF style for something like this,
because every builders needs are different, and to be honest,
I just started cutting foam and hot gluing things together as I went along.
The only thing I had in mind was to make it 10" deep. That way I managed
three shelves per one DTF board. That made the project quite thrifty,
at 4-5 boards, four glue sticks, 2 Xacto blades, and about three hours
of build-as-you-go design time. I figure it cost me $8 US. (YMMV)
It did a good job of using up all the scrap pieces I had laying around too!
This idea also lends itself to a desk-top organizer if you just fabricate
the top portion to use on your work surface, or a dresser drawer type storage
unit to hold shoe boxes full of all the junk we builders collect so very quickly!
(both of which I intend to fabricate very soon!)
This unit is 24"H x 20"W x 10"D with hand-hold cutouts to make it easy to move around.
It has a channel cut all the way down in the corner and through the shelves and drawer
to accommodate longer things like dowels, rods, a yard stick, arrow shafts, etc,
and will sit to the right of my chair next to my dining room table.
This will put the top shelf, which holds my most common and needed tools/glues etc.,
right at arms reach, and will encourage me to maintain a clear work surface.
I highly recommend the MinWax treatment to protect your investment in time and effort,
should you decide this project suits your needs. I intended to paint it also,
but lost my nerve after seeing how long the MW treatment took me
after it was completely assembled???
PS: GOD help me to post all the pics! (or i will look like a fool!...)
I don't have a dedicated space or "work shop" to fabricate my FT inspired DTF builds,
and I end up doing it on the dining room table.........
Anyone who has had to do that knows what a mess it can become
when everything is laying around on your work-surface
when you are trying to fabricate bigger pieces like a wing or fuselage,
not to mention putting all the bigger pieces together in the end!
I searched around for some tackle box type organizers, and "toy" bin & shelf/bucket organizers,
but they were either too small, too big, too expensive, or just not what I needed or wanted.
Just then I looked over at this HUGE stack of DTF board I have acquired,
straightened out, and the thought hit me: what can I do with that stuff and some hot glue?
This is what I came up with, and if you engineer it correctly,
it will hold an amazing amount of weight and "stuff".
Just be sure to arrange gussets under the heavy load bearing shelves!
You truly can not put out a "plan" in PDF style for something like this,
because every builders needs are different, and to be honest,
I just started cutting foam and hot gluing things together as I went along.
The only thing I had in mind was to make it 10" deep. That way I managed
three shelves per one DTF board. That made the project quite thrifty,
at 4-5 boards, four glue sticks, 2 Xacto blades, and about three hours
of build-as-you-go design time. I figure it cost me $8 US. (YMMV)
It did a good job of using up all the scrap pieces I had laying around too!
This idea also lends itself to a desk-top organizer if you just fabricate
the top portion to use on your work surface, or a dresser drawer type storage
unit to hold shoe boxes full of all the junk we builders collect so very quickly!
(both of which I intend to fabricate very soon!)
This unit is 24"H x 20"W x 10"D with hand-hold cutouts to make it easy to move around.
It has a channel cut all the way down in the corner and through the shelves and drawer
to accommodate longer things like dowels, rods, a yard stick, arrow shafts, etc,
and will sit to the right of my chair next to my dining room table.
This will put the top shelf, which holds my most common and needed tools/glues etc.,
right at arms reach, and will encourage me to maintain a clear work surface.
I highly recommend the MinWax treatment to protect your investment in time and effort,
should you decide this project suits your needs. I intended to paint it also,
but lost my nerve after seeing how long the MW treatment took me
after it was completely assembled???
PS: GOD help me to post all the pics! (or i will look like a fool!...)
