scrap up-cycle weekend build

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Stevenski

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Nothing to get excited about but I am stil very pleased with this weekend build that cost ... nothing

My daughter wanted a wall mounted coat rack for her mini sized appartment
All put together with scraps, left overs and parts from my "that'll come in useful one day" box :)

1 x piece of 18mm MDF left from a wardrobe build,
2 x pcs pine from a slatted bench project
edge banding with the cut off rounded edges of box store wood stock for the benches
6 old brass hooks and some copper pipe to make sleeves to cover the dowels (BTW I have NO idea how Chicago-made brass hooks ended up in workshop in Warsaw Poland! :) )
grey tikkurila paint left over from the wardrobe build

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I also laser engraved some steampunk weather related (very loosely :) ) motifs to be attached of she wants

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There’s been a sizeable Polish community in Chicago since the early 19th Century. Odd but not totally surprising.
 
MacBoy said:
Nice results! Love the idea of using the copper sleeves for the dowels.
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It was one of those happy coincidence, pivot kind of things :ROFLMAO:

Originally my idea was to use the dowels in the standard way and the two boards were supposed to butt up to each other. But during a test fit to see if I had got the holes well placed, I didn't want to fully close the gap in case I couldn't get ot apart again. The I thought to myslf that I actually liked the gap and the dowels as a decorative feature so I incorporated them into the final design.

However I didn't like how the ribbed dowels looked and came up with the idea of using short lengths of pipe as sleeves. The copper also spoke to the brass hooks and kind of ties things together in my opinion.

I didn't mention it but I am a bit obsessive so I actually found a recipe on Youtube on how to antique brass and used it on the shiny new brass screws so they didn't;t clash with the old hooks You can see the result in the photo I think precisiely because you can't see the screws :) Trust me, they were bright shiny gold when I bought them in the hardware store the previous day - they looked AWFUL
 
A lot of cool projects are designed on the fly or somewhat accidental.
Great job on the attention to detail. Aging the screws was definitely a good choice.
 
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