Reclaimed Wood Coat Rack

[Chestnut]

So another little project that's been on the list to get done between projects. All of these little projects I've been working on have sort of been at the same time. This one was fun but challenging in a new way. It didn't really work out perfectly but for what it is that doesn't really matter the end result is exactly what was desired. The desire was to have one of those modern coat racks that when not in use just looks like a piece of wall art. When needed the slats tip forward and you can hang a coat on it. I just picked up some of that reclaimed Bocote and figured this would make a perfect use for a board of it.

Getting started was easy rip boards to width cut to random lengths and then layout in a pattern. To make the coat hooks work the bottom of the hook will wedge against the backer board that gets mounted to the wall. This meant that each hook had to have it's bottom at the same level. So i got an idea of that and then drew a line for where the brass rod would go.

Next was to use a fence and stop at the drill press to make sure that all the holes for the hooks were in the same place. The other slats locations were less important so they were just eyeballed but still used the fence. After that i grabbed a piece of cherry to mount everything to and cut a 45 in it to be able to mount this to the wall french cleat style. I probably could have just used screws through the backer board but that seemed like it would make mounting thins more tricky.

 

After everything was mounted it was apparent that there needed to be some sort of system to keep the hooks from just tipping out on their own. so i channeled my inner Steve and used magnets. Thanks Steve it's from your recommendation to always have magnets around that i thought about this and was able to get it done right away. I used a forstner bit to put a hole for the magnet to be close to the surface and then mounted a washer to the back of the hooks. It worked perfectly.

I put quite a few coats of shellac on the bocote. As i was working with it i'd use super glue to hold things in place to get mounting positions down right. Dab of super glue spritz of applicator and it beats clamps. If the bond was good enough i just left it. turns out Bocote is a bit too oily for super glue and all of those connections ended up failing. The super glue did it's job just long enough for the regular wood glue to do it's work though and that stuff was NOT coming off. Final coat of finis was a good coat of wiping poly and hang it on the wall.

So yeah reclaimed wood projects don't always have to be bad.

[gee-dub]

Love it!

[Chet]

Very nice.

I wouldn't call Bocote reclaimed maybe "certified pre-owned".  Bocote is one of the woods that is handy to have a can of acetone around for glue ups.  Wipe the area to be glued with acetone then apply the glue in a timely fashion.

[Chestnut]

4 hours ago, Chet said:

Very nice.

I wouldn't call Bocote reclaimed maybe "certified pre-owned".  Bocote is one of the woods that is handy to have a can of acetone around for glue ups.  Wipe the area to be glued with acetone then apply the glue in a timely fashion.

I feel like i should have mentioned that i did use alcohol to clean it before glue. Certified pre-owned LMAO that's great i'm going to use that.

[Pondhockey]

Very nice, nut!

[Ronn W]

Great look.  I like it.