Revived an old shop project

[Pappy]

My #7 and #8 planes won't fit in the cabinet with the other planes and have been laying on top of a cabinet in the back of the Playpen where they are hard to reach. I came with the idea of a wall shelf for them but the only thing ever done was to cut the plywood parts. The end pieces got repurposed (Is that even a word?) long ago.

While working on the shelves for the laundry room I decided to use the laundry supply shelf that I cut off to finish the plane shelf. The 1/2" plywood was cut thinner when I removed it, so I planned off the part the BT didn't cut and ran it through the drum sander to smooth it out and remove the paint.

Dados were cut for the shelves and the front edge got some shaping. Some scrap 1x2 was glued to the underside of the top shelf for a nailer strip and the drop from that was cut in half and gluded under the ends of the lower shelf as stiffeners. The left over from the ends was cut to make end pices to keep the planes centered so the cutter was rest over shallow dados in the shelves. These were glued in place just before I shut down for the evening.





Still need to do some light sanding and remove some glue squeeze out before spraying it with laquer. Then I have to find a spot to mount it so I can get to the planes.

[ironhat]

So, what's the status on your 'repurposing'? Have you had time to make any additional progress? BTW, you mentioned 'running it through a belt sander. Is it a portable or bench type and if the latter, did you build it yourself?

[Pappy]

Drum sander, not belt sander. I got it finished but have another utility project going on that will be finished Sunday. Then I can pull everything out and clean up the playpen. I will hang it on the wall then and get a final pic to post.

[Pappy]

Got the utility project done but didn't get the Playpen cleaned. I did manage to get the plane shelf hung while waiting for a glue up to dry.

It is to the right just inside the door under a set of deep jaw Irwin clamps. With the clamps and the fire extinguisher hanging above them it keeps me from moving a tool close enough to hit the shelf (I HOPE!).