Display Stand Part II

After a week of the successful display stand 1, I was given the opportunity again by TofuCarpenter-san to work on another set.

I didn't really plan too well on the measurements though, but I had a quick idea in mind for 3 single-tier ones. Two of them in the same size, and one a bit taller (5.5" vs. 3").

This time TofuCarpenter-san wanted to use rabbet joints on the connecting sides of each piece in the stand. So we went ahead and did as such.


The 'plans'.
We actually managed to churn out the three in 'record' time, and the rabbets looked great.


Note how the joining ends are shaped - this is called a 'rabbet'.

And here's the three stands. Nice, eh?
After completing the cuts, we started putting them together. For the two smaller ones we used wood glue and 2 pairs of small nails on each side. These held up great.

Now we were on record time - until we decided to play around a bit more with the bigger stand. While dry fitting it, the bigger stand appeared to be wobbly again (similar to what happened with the 2-tier stand we made earlier).

We considered putting a support bracket to it. Wood? Nope, went with aluminum. Yup, aluminum. TofuCarpenter-san had an extra L-shaped piece of aluminum (looked like small gutter) and from there, cut up two smaller pieces and we drilled holes on these to form a smaller bracket.

The plan for the bracket was great on paper, but it sort of didn't work well, moreso because of my 'precision' measurements. In short, we ditched the aluminum brackets and just used wood glue on the bigger stand too.


Larger stand clamped while waiting for the wood glue to dry. Notice one of the aluminum brackets that we added to the picture for posterity's sake.
After the wood glue dried, we put in two pairs of longer nails on each side...and guess what? The thing held up pretty well and didn't wobble at all! Lessons learned there, heh-heh.

So now they'll go the same route as the first display stand. Some wood filler first and then a staining session.

Will be posting the final outcome soon (if I don't get lazy or something)!

As always, thanks to TofuCarpenter-san for again helping out in this project. His wife Takoyaki-chan was also there to cheer us on (well she mostly played Lego Star Wars but we knew she was cheering us on - I hope).

On to the filling and staining!