Been busy lately, but still got some sawdust in.

[RabidAlien]

So between honeydoos, family stuff, work stuff, and ....stuff stuff, its been a while since I got to finish up a project.  I have several "in progress", but I finally sat down this weekend and said "darnit, I'm finishing something!"  That may be a rough quote, edited down to PG13.    Anyhoo, to make a short story longer, I'd ordered these tubes from Amazon.com (gumball tubes, if anyone's wondering) and they've been sitting around on my workbench for several months, just collecting sawdust.  So I finally remembered to pic up a 1 1/4" paddle drill bit at Lowes and went to work.  2x4 scrap ripped in half.  Used Inkscape to drum up some circles with a cross in the middle, sized for the tubes, and printed off two rows of 5.  The wood wasn't quite wide enough to fit both rows side by side, so I staggered them.  Taped the top and bottom pieces together, then set the depth of my drill press so that the paddle bit went about halfway through the bottom piece at its lowest, and drilled the holes...that bit throws out a LOT of sawdust, and may have caused some smoking.    Sides were originally just a couple of of flat pieces, but I figured that if I was building a rack for scroll saw blades, then a scroll saw should probably be involved.  So back to Inkscape!  Found a basic "icthus" (the Christian fish symbol) file on Google, imported that into Inkscape, duplicated it, flipped it, and overlapped the two so that the tail of one lined up with the head of the one below.  Stack-cut the sides again, stained everything, and glued it up.   Shot a couple of nails through the contact points this afternoon and had one "fin" break off from the force, but some wood glue and its back in business.  I now have an organized stand for my blades!

Sorry, I didn't save any of the Inkscape patterns, but I can throw together the side-pieces in a couple of minutes if anyone wants them.

 

 

[wombatie]

A job well done and useful too.  Well done.

Marg

[Tomanydogs]

That will keep those blades organized. Very nicely done. 

[JimErn]

Very nice work

[daveww1]

very nice

[RabidAlien]

Here's a couple of better shots:

 

 

[John B]

Looking good. Similar to my holder, just a lot flasher.