Starting with my shed

So one of the very first projects I was able to do was.....(drum roll please)... a shoe rack!

What woman doesn't need a shoe rack?? Just ask Emeld....nevermind.

So anyways, this is another slab that I had (I wish Freddie Dad was still around!) of camphor laurel. It is such a beautiful timber to work with and the colors that are in it are amazing!!

 

Here is the finished product. What I did was cut the slab in half length ways as you can see. I cut it to a length of 5 foot tall and the width varies from the very top of just 5 inches (12.5cm) to the middle of near 9 inches (23cm) as the slab was from where the tree had a branch coming out. You can tell by the beautiful red coloring as it curves up and to the right where they cut the limb off.

 

 

 

This is the ugly P.O.S. Chinese plastic crap we had before. As you can see it was an embarrassment to have people see that when they walked by the laundry on their way to the restroom.

So I salvaged the tubes to use in the new shoe rack. I used the holes where the tubes were as a template for the new shoe rack so that I could align the tubes when completed.

Can I tell you what a royal pain in the as.k me how hard it was to assemble?! As for the following reasons:

1. Each hole was not drilled to the same depth (lesson learned!!!)
2. When one tube was placed, the corresponding side had to be placed as well but there was no one to hold the timber up!
3. As you inserted the tube on one side and moved down, if you moved the timber to enable the tube to slip in, the one above it slid out. 
4. How do you get it in the house alone? Oh okay assemble inside. Oh crap means I have to take it apart. (Insert very obscene words here!)
   

So needless to say, this was a very fun project to figure out how to get the tubes in. I wound up getting a tie down strap and rubber mallet.

All in all, it came out ok.