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My daughter, Tracey, and I were talking and I let her
know I
was between projects. Now this conversation took place near Christmas
of 2020 and she said she had a project for me. Tracey is into Yoga these days and she
wanted a rack to hold her Yoga mat.
One thing lead to another and she sent me some pictures,
did some talking and we came up with a plan. This Yoga mat rack will
hold three mats, and will be 26" tall X 12 1/2" wide. The wood for it will
be maple and black walnut and there will be some stainless steel
involved as well.
Working With Wood
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I'll need to glue the maple to the black
walnut so I'm skimming the sides with my table saw to make sure I
have some nice smooth edges to work with. In other words, I'm jointing
the edges here.
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The same thing here with the black walnut but I'll need to cut away that
step too.
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The black walnut was thicker than the maple so I ran it through my
thickness planer first. This only took a minute or two.
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I used my biscuit joiner to cut some slots for #20 biscuits.
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Then I used my Bessey parallel clamps to hold things together over
night. Side Note: this type of clamp is far superior to just about any
other clamps out there. Do yourself a favor and buy some if you don't
already own any.
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The next day I ran the assembly through my thickness planer just to
clean it up.
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I cut each end using my cross-cut sled on my table saw. This makes quick
work of it and now it's nice and square.
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I used a 3/16" roundover bit on all the front edges. However, I didn't
do the back.
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