Pallet Furniture, Show yours - Wine rack built.

[Grizz1963]

Had Nicola's daughter, Hannah over for the weekend, plan was bootfair this morning, but rain halted play.

SOOOOOO...... ??

Getting a bit stir crazy, she started talking about making furniture etc from pallet wood and various other bits of offcast timber.

So we went and rummaged around behind the garage, and inside the garage.

She identified a half a pallet and said that she wanted to make a wine rack from it.

After her explaining to me how it would work, I was none the wiser.... like me, she sees it in her head and would make it from that plan.

Of course I agreed, any excuse to get the tools out and make stuff.

Unfortunately I did not take a before photo of it on the pile, but halfway through this was the state of play.

Drilling the holes for the glass rack.





After she cleaned up the glass rack, she had a feel for the belt sander and started to partially sand back the pallet sides as well.



Final assembly.




And done.

Takes 12 bottles of varying size and glass rack made to accommodate tall glasses with ease.

Now she just needs to learn to drink wine.



Yes, I am both pleased and proud of Hannah.

Next weekend it is coffee tables and some other mad stuff.

Need to get her onto the lathe too.


I hope to see more examples.

[flashed]

Im not a drinker but that is cool.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by flashed

Im not a drinker but that is cool.

LOL !!

Neither is Hannah, which is why I said she needs to learn to drink wine, but she wants cool, quirky stuff in her home, and with a Sicilian boyfriend, who knows, it could double up as a kitchen shelving unit.

You could use it, or a variation for various jobs in and around the house, imagine a planter for small potplants.

[Grizz1963]

This weekend Hannah brought Luca, her Sicillian boyfriend along, and they had collected pallets through the week, which came in the back of his poor abused Golf.

Plans included a spice rack(s) and some other ideas she had neatly written and drawn on a piece of A4 paper. Known as "The Blueprint"

After a good bootfair session on Sunday, and brekkie at McD's as is customary, we headed home and they started preparing for battle.

I took the truck out the garage and up the drive a bit so that I could address all the sheets of ply I had harvested at a local catering equipment factory, being crate sides, they were filled with nails and these were all duly removed.

Hannah decided to start with the cable drum coffee table she wanted to make out of some cable drums I had stashed in the garage rafters.

So they started by sanding it all to a smooth finish, then assembled with 4 small screws (nuts n bolts)

At this point my father in law arrived with Ruby, the retired Greyhound who wanted to help with the sanding as well.



Deciding the undeside had to be a cream colour, she proceeded with that after careful masking off.



In the mean time Luca proceeded to start coating the £3.00 bootfair bargain, Indian marquetry table they had bought as well with what ended up as 5 coats of Danish oil. The life has really been breathed back into what was a tired piece with loads of potential.



At this point the weather changed and it started raining, so play was halted and moved into the garage where the tabletop was coated in 3 coats of quick drying varnish, I have added two more coats yesterday, so 5 coats should see it resisting all the abuse that may be thrown at it.

We love the smell.......



And job done.

Cups for perspective of size.



We never got to the next lot of pallet wood items, but there is always next Sunday, as we will be going on an Alpaca Trek on Saturday, and to visit Robert, the guy I bought the Chevy truck from.

I also want to teach Hannah a bit of welding, and have managed to get some horse shoes through a biking friend, David Slevin, who managed to ride home straight into the eye of a thunder storm with his wife on the back of their new Harley after delivering the horse shoes..... SORRY MATE !!.

She has some ideas of what she wants to make, but I am sure there are loads of things one can make using them.

Post up your ideas, or pics of what you have made before.

[Grizz1963]

Still have not got around to showing Hannah how to weld, but did some neat stuff this weekend.

On Saturday we went down to Romney Marsh to "Annie's Alpacas" to do Alpaca Trekking.

I got to walk with Hershey and Nicola had Bertie, I think they tend to walk us more than we walk them.




Then we went and spent just over 4 hours in Rye, which included a really good "Cream Tea" with two large scones each, and strawberry jam and clotted cream, I opted to change my tea for a rather good latte coffee.

Today was Bootfair again in the morning, out the house before 06.00 and hit two followed by McD brekkies.

Then back home and Hannah and I went to the garage to address the little step ladder I had scooped off the pavement earlier this week.

Today I let her do most of the prep by herself, so the first thing was to remove the bottom step and replace it with good wood.



Next up some plywood was marked and cut to create a top and bottom shelf.



Followed by prep and paint.





And finally there was a show and tell.



So that was todays lesson to a 22 year old radiographer.

[63 & 64 Bowties]

Adirondack Pallet Chairs.
They really need arm-rests though. Not very comfortable.