SPOOL SHELF by dyonkin

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Shelf for holding 3D Printer Filament. Easily holds 55 spools. With a monthly subscription to MakerGeeks for printer filament, I quickly found myself overrun with filament stacked everywhere. My son just so happened to need a woodshop project for school but I didn't want to take any chances he would have problems getting the angles right so I printed shelf brackets to keep everything aligned. I also wanted the shelves to be pinned and glued in place so I created a jig to help with drilling the dowel holes in the uprights. You can make one whatever height you want, I made mine 6 feet tall. I found 1x8x12's to be the cheapest option at Lowe's and bought 4 of them cut in half at the store.
Materials needed:
(4) 1x8x12's
3/8 inch dowel
Glue
24 screws
12 shelf braces (printed)
1 jig (printed)
Cut 1 board in half (uprights)
Rip the other 3 boards and cut into 3 foot lengths
Starting a couple of inches of the bottom, Mark 12" increments for the shelf brackets on each upright
Attach the brackets
Using the jig, drill guide holes in each upright at each shelf location
Begin drilling holes in the end of the 3' shelf pieces using the guide holes you just drilled (i recommend screwing them at first to keep them aligned while you drill)
Glue and pin the shelves in place
You'll notice I kept a gap at the bottom of each shelf. Given their anglexi was concerned about dust collecting in the 'V' so I left the gap. Also, if you look at my son's final project, you'll notice he shorted me 1 shelf. This worked for me because I had some things to put under the bottom shelf anyway. The final design came out very stable and though I considered some add-ons for more stability, I found it unnecessary.
He got an A for the project.