The Angle and Measurement Process

Before starting the project, it is essential to determine the angle at which the legs will sit on the floor flat. To achieve this, a bolt was inserted into the top pivot joint of the rack, and then the number of pieces that make up the wrap were marked with a scrap piece of wood. A hole was drilled through the center of the wrapped pieces, and a bolt was dropped in to hold the leg in position. The board was then aligned and placed over the bolt, allowing for precise positioning.

A speed square was used to establish the angle, which was found to be 10 degrees. To ensure accuracy, the speed square was flipped and repositioned to match the desired angle. The measurements were taken using the speed square as a guide, resulting in a perfectly flat position for the legs. This attention to detail is crucial for ensuring that the rack sits level on the floor.

The Legs of the Rack

With the angle established, it's time to focus on creating the legs themselves. A bolt was inserted into the top pivot joint, and then the pieces were spread apart. A piece of wood was ripped from a 1x4 board, and a hole was drilled through its center to accommodate the bolt. The wrapped pieces were then aligned over the bolt, securing the leg in position.

A speed square was used again to establish the height of the legs, which was found to be 10 degrees. To ensure accuracy, the speed square was flipped and repositioned to match the desired angle. The measurements were taken using the speed square as a guide, resulting in precise positioning for the legs.

Cutting the Legs

Once the positions of the legs had been established, it's time to cut them to size. A 1x4 board was ripped into smaller pieces, and these will be used to create the legs of the rack. The pieces were then cut to length using a saw, resulting in long and short components that can be assembled together.

The Assembly Process

With all the pieces cut to size, it's time to start assembling the rack. A center line was drawn on each piece, indicating where the mortise holes will be drilled later. Floating tenons were used to assemble the bottom rack, with a loose molded antenna joint holding everything in place. To add extra strength to the joint, two pieces of 1x4 wood were glued together and then ripped in half.

A router was used to round over the edges of the closed pole, creating a smooth surface for gluing. A piece of scrap wood was used as a guide to prevent the router from tipping off during use. The pole was then sanded to create a smooth finish, ready for assembly.

Installing Threaded Inserts

The final step in assembling the rack is installing threaded inserts into the bottom pieces and the pole. The inserts were cut to size using a drill press, resulting in precise threading that can be used with screws or other fasteners.

Drilling Mortise Holes

With the legs assembled and threaded inserts installed, it's time to start drilling mortise holes into the sides of the rack. A drill bit was used to create the holes, which will eventually house the bottom pieces and the pole. The holes were drilled carefully, ensuring that they are straight and level.

Assembling the Bottom Rack

With the mortise holes drilled, it's now time to assemble the bottom rack. The two center lines drawn earlier were used as a guide, indicating where the bolts will be placed into the sides of the rack. Floating tenons were used to assemble the pieces together, with the loose molded antenna joint holding everything in place.

The Closed Pole

The closed pole was then attached to the assembled bottom rack using screws or other fasteners. The edges of the pole were rounded over using a router, creating a smooth surface for gluing. A piece of scrap wood was used as a guide to prevent the router from tipping off during use.

Finishing Touches

Once the bottom rack is assembled and the pole is attached, it's time to add some finishing touches. The closed pole was sanded to create a smooth finish, ready for staining or painting. The rack was also stained or painted using one of the products mentioned earlier, resulting in a beautiful and cohesive look.

Hanging the Rack

Finally, it's time to hang the rack on the wall. A stud finder was used to locate the perfect spot, ensuring that the rack will be securely fastened into place. The rack was then attached to the wall using screws or other fasteners, creating a sturdy and level position for hanging shirts and boots.

The Finished Product

And so, after weeks of work, the project is finally complete. The rack sits level on the floor, with a smooth and finished surface. It's ready to be used, whether it's to hang clothes or display accessories. With its unique design and attention to detail, this rack is sure to be a standout piece in any room.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign Hey Kevin oh wait what are we thinking of building today I'm thinking about building a kind of an easy project it's going to be a closed rack that you can disassemble oh nice all right the reason for that is a lot of college kids take it they need a place to hang their clothes they can pack it up put it away when they're done pack it up bring it back home I don't think college kids hang their clothes yeah that's true it's just gone but anyway I get the point so uh looks like you got an A-frame right on each side so it'll be two of those yeah and then there's a close pull at the top and then on the bottom we'll make a slatted Rack or a shelf to put shoes gotcha okay and uh Maple yeah this is one by four Maple I like Maple a lot it's beautiful wood it's hard it really is durable but it's tough to stain but it does take paint well if you wanted to go that route paints them beautifully nice all right and because it's going to be something that you can take apart I want to make sure that we take apart easy so you think of a nut and a bolt but we're not going to have a situation where we can through bull something we're going to actually screw into the end grain of the wood and there'd be no way to hold that nut for the screw and a traditional wood screw is not going to be any good because that would hold once or twice but if you just sort of keep coming and going taking it apart putting it back together you're going to get slop yeah the hole is going to get too big so you're thinking what so we're going to use what is called a threaded insert right there and a Furniture bolt so we need to do is drill a little bigger hole then the bolt itself and screw this piece into the wood and then screw the machine thread into that thread and they can take it apart put it together as many times as they want and it won't break down I think I get it okay how do you want to get started all right so I've got a whole cut list here gives us all our lengths and widths all right plain and simple foreign so now I've taken the four legs and we've taped them together to make it one we need to drill a hole at the top and a hole in the bottom so what I did is I measured down nine inches here and 50 plus inches down there I made a little jig so you will hold the drill straight in both directions now we're going to do the other one Century line line up the spacing go for it okay so we removed all our tape and our pieces are all set individually okay next thing I need to do is I need to find the angle for the legs and how they sit on the floor flat and so what we're going to do is I'm going to take a bolt and put it in that top pivot joint right there and we're going to spread it apart now I know the number of this rack that we're going to put on the bottom and what I did is I took a scrap piece of wood and I drilled a hole to the center of the pieces that make up the wrap I'm going to take a bolt I'm going to drop it in a hole I'm now going to line the board up put it in the hole and now that holds the leg into position and shows where the rack's going to go and this is the angle that I need to match the floor so it sits flat gotcha to follow that angle all I'm going to do is I'm going to take a speed square I'm going to put it on the edge I'm going to slide it up until it stops and it's parallel with my stick right here now I look at my angle and it says 10 degrees take my speed square I flip it around and I want to be 10 degrees right there and that will establish the angle that I want off the floor so I just take it up like that use my Square as a measurement I'll take it and flip it over again use 10 degrees use my Square as a measurement Market there's my angle there's my height both left and right all we're going to do is cut them very cool okay our legs are done and now we're ready to assemble the rack and the rack is going to have a long piece that's going to go from leg to leg on each side and short pieces that are going to go inside like that I'm going to keep them back just as a look on each end all of these were cut up earlier and ripped yep all out of the one by four and I think what we'll do there is just start with the center and divide it out that way so you want a center line here yep and then two center lines on each side exactly you mark those I'm going to Mark the center lines of these because we're going to put this all together with floating tenons and we're going to drill the mortise hole next foreign so now we're going to start the assembly and we're going to hold the bottom rack together with a loose molded antenna joint so if you want to just get some glue in the joint perfect foreign pole I actually took two pieces of the 1x4 ripped in half and glued them together now the idea of that is it makes it nice and strong it's almost like a piece of engineered Lumber but I want to round over the closed Pole to do that we're going to use a half inch quarter round round over bit we'll run it down each side and I cut a piece of scrap the same height as the closed pole I'm going to use this on the outside of the router to keep it from tipping off all right now we just sand that up now we want to cut the pole to length now we're ready to install the threaded inserts two in the pole and four in the rack can't be certain I feel like I'm doing all the work I'm just trying to give you a down for us just hold that okay go ahead so we'll work it down nice and easy making sure we don't strip the wood also making sure that we're lined up there you go that's the end of it right there nice and tight it's pretty good that looks really good place to hang your shirts put your boots and uh I guess you got to figure out if you're going to stain it or paint it yeah I mean that's the only decision I mean it's one of those products like you said earlier they really do paint nicely I I had Sue send me your wardrobe so we could try it out oh oh yeah she didn't mix anything up did you whole week's worth of clothes yeah she sent me your Monday shirt yeah right that's right your Tuesday shirt that's right this is I don't know why that's your Wednesday so that's the way that way I know half the week's gone oh this is your Thursday shirt and I got Friday on um yep I think it's time to hung it up pop all right well that is it for us so until next week I'm Kevin O'Connor I'm Tom Silva for ask This Old House do you have anything that is in blue thanks for watching this whole house has got a video for just about every Home Improvement project so be sure to check out the others and if you'd like what you see click on the Subscribe button to make sure that you get our newest videos right in your feedforeign Hey Kevin oh wait what are we thinking of building today I'm thinking about building a kind of an easy project it's going to be a closed rack that you can disassemble oh nice all right the reason for that is a lot of college kids take it they need a place to hang their clothes they can pack it up put it away when they're done pack it up bring it back home I don't think college kids hang their clothes yeah that's true it's just gone but anyway I get the point so uh looks like you got an A-frame right on each side so it'll be two of those yeah and then there's a close pull at the top and then on the bottom we'll make a slatted Rack or a shelf to put shoes gotcha okay and uh Maple yeah this is one by four Maple I like Maple a lot it's beautiful wood it's hard it really is durable but it's tough to stain but it does take paint well if you wanted to go that route paints them beautifully nice all right and because it's going to be something that you can take apart I want to make sure that we take apart easy so you think of a nut and a bolt but we're not going to have a situation where we can through bull something we're going to actually screw into the end grain of the wood and there'd be no way to hold that nut for the screw and a traditional wood screw is not going to be any good because that would hold once or twice but if you just sort of keep coming and going taking it apart putting it back together you're going to get slop yeah the hole is going to get too big so you're thinking what so we're going to use what is called a threaded insert right there and a Furniture bolt so we need to do is drill a little bigger hole then the bolt itself and screw this piece into the wood and then screw the machine thread into that thread and they can take it apart put it together as many times as they want and it won't break down I think I get it okay how do you want to get started all right so I've got a whole cut list here gives us all our lengths and widths all right plain and simple foreign so now I've taken the four legs and we've taped them together to make it one we need to drill a hole at the top and a hole in the bottom so what I did is I measured down nine inches here and 50 plus inches down there I made a little jig so you will hold the drill straight in both directions now we're going to do the other one Century line line up the spacing go for it okay so we removed all our tape and our pieces are all set individually okay next thing I need to do is I need to find the angle for the legs and how they sit on the floor flat and so what we're going to do is I'm going to take a bolt and put it in that top pivot joint right there and we're going to spread it apart now I know the number of this rack that we're going to put on the bottom and what I did is I took a scrap piece of wood and I drilled a hole to the center of the pieces that make up the wrap I'm going to take a bolt I'm going to drop it in a hole I'm now going to line the board up put it in the hole and now that holds the leg into position and shows where the rack's going to go and this is the angle that I need to match the floor so it sits flat gotcha to follow that angle all I'm going to do is I'm going to take a speed square I'm going to put it on the edge I'm going to slide it up until it stops and it's parallel with my stick right here now I look at my angle and it says 10 degrees take my speed square I flip it around and I want to be 10 degrees right there and that will establish the angle that I want off the floor so I just take it up like that use my Square as a measurement I'll take it and flip it over again use 10 degrees use my Square as a measurement Market there's my angle there's my height both left and right all we're going to do is cut them very cool okay our legs are done and now we're ready to assemble the rack and the rack is going to have a long piece that's going to go from leg to leg on each side and short pieces that are going to go inside like that I'm going to keep them back just as a look on each end all of these were cut up earlier and ripped yep all out of the one by four and I think what we'll do there is just start with the center and divide it out that way so you want a center line here yep and then two center lines on each side exactly you mark those I'm going to Mark the center lines of these because we're going to put this all together with floating tenons and we're going to drill the mortise hole next foreign so now we're going to start the assembly and we're going to hold the bottom rack together with a loose molded antenna joint so if you want to just get some glue in the joint perfect foreign pole I actually took two pieces of the 1x4 ripped in half and glued them together now the idea of that is it makes it nice and strong it's almost like a piece of engineered Lumber but I want to round over the closed Pole to do that we're going to use a half inch quarter round round over bit we'll run it down each side and I cut a piece of scrap the same height as the closed pole I'm going to use this on the outside of the router to keep it from tipping off all right now we just sand that up now we want to cut the pole to length now we're ready to install the threaded inserts two in the pole and four in the rack can't be certain I feel like I'm doing all the work I'm just trying to give you a down for us just hold that okay go ahead so we'll work it down nice and easy making sure we don't strip the wood also making sure that we're lined up there you go that's the end of it right there nice and tight it's pretty good that looks really good place to hang your shirts put your boots and uh I guess you got to figure out if you're going to stain it or paint it yeah I mean that's the only decision I mean it's one of those products like you said earlier they really do paint nicely I I had Sue send me your wardrobe so we could try it out oh oh yeah she didn't mix anything up did you whole week's worth of clothes yeah she sent me your Monday shirt yeah right that's right your Tuesday shirt that's right this is I don't know why that's your Wednesday so that's the way that way I know half the week's gone oh this is your Thursday shirt and I got Friday on um yep I think it's time to hung it up pop all right well that is it for us so until next week I'm Kevin O'Connor I'm Tom Silva for ask This Old House do you have anything that is in blue thanks for watching this whole house has got a video for just about every Home Improvement project so be sure to check out the others and if you'd like what you see click on the Subscribe button to make sure that you get our newest videos right in your feedforeign Hey Kevin oh wait what are we thinking of building today I'm thinking about building a kind of an easy project it's going to be a closed rack that you can disassemble oh nice all right the reason for that is a lot of college kids take it they need a place to hang their clothes they can pack it up put it away when they're done pack it up bring it back home I don't think college kids hang their clothes yeah that's true it's just gone but anyway I get the point so uh looks like you got an A-frame right on each side so it'll be two of those yeah and then there's a close pull at the top and then on the bottom we'll make a slatted Rack or a shelf to put shoes gotcha okay and uh Maple yeah this is one by four Maple I like Maple a lot it's beautiful wood it's hard it really is durable but it's tough to stain but it does take paint well if you wanted to go that route paints them beautifully nice all right and because it's going to be something that you can take apart I want to make sure that we take apart easy so you think of a nut and a bolt but we're not going to have a situation where we can through bull something we're going to actually screw into the end grain of the wood and there'd be no way to hold that nut for the screw and a traditional wood screw is not going to be any good because that would hold once or twice but if you just sort of keep coming and going taking it apart putting it back together you're going to get slop yeah the hole is going to get too big so you're thinking what so we're going to use what is called a threaded insert right there and a Furniture bolt so we need to do is drill a little bigger hole then the bolt itself and screw this piece into the wood and then screw the machine thread into that thread and they can take it apart put it together as many times as they want and it won't break down I think I get it okay how do you want to get started all right so I've got a whole cut list here gives us all our lengths and widths all right plain and simple foreign so now I've taken the four legs and we've taped them together to make it one we need to drill a hole at the top and a hole in the bottom so what I did is I measured down nine inches here and 50 plus inches down there I made a little jig so you will hold the drill straight in both directions now we're going to do the other one Century line line up the spacing go for it okay so we removed all our tape and our pieces are all set individually okay next thing I need to do is I need to find the angle for the legs and how they sit on the floor flat and so what we're going to do is I'm going to take a bolt and put it in that top pivot joint right there and we're going to spread it apart now I know the number of this rack that we're going to put on the bottom and what I did is I took a scrap piece of wood and I drilled a hole to the center of the pieces that make up the wrap I'm going to take a bolt I'm going to drop it in a hole I'm now going to line the board up put it in the hole and now that holds the leg into position and shows where the rack's going to go and this is the angle that I need to match the floor so it sits flat gotcha to follow that angle all I'm going to do is I'm going to take a speed square I'm going to put it on the edge I'm going to slide it up until it stops and it's parallel with my stick right here now I look at my angle and it says 10 degrees take my speed square I flip it around and I want to be 10 degrees right there and that will establish the angle that I want off the floor so I just take it up like that use my Square as a measurement I'll take it and flip it over again use 10 degrees use my Square as a measurement Market there's my angle there's my height both left and right all we're going to do is cut them very cool okay our legs are done and now we're ready to assemble the rack and the rack is going to have a long piece that's going to go from leg to leg on each side and short pieces that are going to go inside like that I'm going to keep them back just as a look on each end all of these were cut up earlier and ripped yep all out of the one by four and I think what we'll do there is just start with the center and divide it out that way so you want a center line here yep and then two center lines on each side exactly you mark those I'm going to Mark the center lines of these because we're going to put this all together with floating tenons and we're going to drill the mortise hole next foreign so now we're going to start the assembly and we're going to hold the bottom rack together with a loose molded antenna joint so if you want to just get some glue in the joint perfect foreign pole I actually took two pieces of the 1x4 ripped in half and glued them together now the idea of that is it makes it nice and strong it's almost like a piece of engineered Lumber but I want to round over the closed Pole to do that we're going to use a half inch quarter round round over bit we'll run it down each side and I cut a piece of scrap the same height as the closed pole I'm going to use this on the outside of the router to keep it from tipping off all right now we just sand that up now we want to cut the pole to length now we're ready to install the threaded inserts two in the pole and four in the rack can't be certain I feel like I'm doing all the work I'm just trying to give you a down for us just hold that okay go ahead so we'll work it down nice and easy making sure we don't strip the wood also making sure that we're lined up there you go that's the end of it right there nice and tight it's pretty good that looks really good place to hang your shirts put your boots and uh I guess you got to figure out if you're going to stain it or paint it yeah I mean that's the only decision I mean it's one of those products like you said earlier they really do paint nicely I I had Sue send me your wardrobe so we could try it out oh oh yeah she didn't mix anything up did you whole week's worth of clothes yeah she sent me your Monday shirt yeah right that's right your Tuesday shirt that's right this is I don't know why that's your Wednesday so that's the way that way I know half the week's gone oh this is your Thursday shirt and I got Friday on um yep I think it's time to hung it up pop all right well that is it for us so until next week I'm Kevin O'Connor I'm Tom Silva for ask This Old House do you have anything that is in blue thanks for watching this whole house has got a video for just about every Home Improvement project so be sure to check out the others and if you'd like what you see click on the Subscribe button to make sure that you get our newest videos right in your feed\n"