Popular Woodworking 2003-02 № 132, страница 87

Popular Woodworking 2003-02 № 132, страница 87

Simple

CD Storage

Build contemporary wall-hung CD racks or wooden inserts for your next home or office project by simply cutting rows and rows of dados.

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A CD's slim, compact design allows for all sorts of creativity when it comes to storing them. Tall CD towers and spinning CD cases have flooded the mega-music stores.

Look under any passenger's car seat or flip down any driver's visor and you'll probably find some sort of CD storage device that involves plastic sleeves. And if you've ever built a desk for the home office, you've probably purchased plastic hardware designed to hold and organize your software and music collections.

Last year Senior Editor Christopher Schwarz was building an entertainment center and

wasn't too excited about installing cheesy plastic rails designed to organize CDs into a handsomely built wooden project. Thinking there has to be a better way, he came up with one, opening all sorts of new doors for CD storage. All it takes is a table saw, a dado stack and some creativity.

The concept is simple: Rows of dados specifically sized and spaced to hold the ends of CD cases. You can plow these dados into any piece of wood and then cut the result into all sorts of shapes - creating endless CD-storage possibilities. I liked Chris's idea so I decided to stretch his concept. It worked great.

by Kara Gebhart

Cutting the Perfect Dado

Before I even headed into the shop, I collected a bunch of CDs from around the office and began measuring their thicknesses with dial calipers. The thickness of the cases ranged from .393" (a little more than V4") to .412" (a little less than 7/l6"). So I decided to make the first test dado .415" wide.

Next, I headed to the shop. To create a dado exactly .415" wide, I used two Vs" dado blades, an 1/8" chipper and two .020" shims. Then, I cut a test dado 1/2" deep in a 3/4"-thick piece of scrap plywood. Next, I tested the .393"-thick case (the smallest one we found) and the .412"-thick case

This concept lends itself to many different designs.At left is a wall-hung cherry design.The rack above has tapered maple sides and is the perfect size to go on the wall next to your computer.

Comments or questions? Contact Kara at 513-531-2690 ext. 1348 or kara.gebhart@fwpubs.com.

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