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These shelves are the most simple project in Philip and Kate Haxell's book Simple Handmade Garden Furniture: 23 Step-by-Step Weekend Projects, and yet they are so useful. Hang them inside or outside the potting shed to store pots and dishes, or to display plants. Hung next to the barbecue table they will hold tools and condiments for no-fuss cooking.
You need:
• 3 pieces timber: 3/4- x 5-1/2- x 19-1/2- inches
• Dowel, 1-1/2- x 19-1/2- inches
• Cord, 2 lengths: 1/4- x 78- inches
• 120-grit sandpaper
• Sanding block
• Tape measure
• Pencil
• Drill
• 1/4-inch and 3/16-inch drill bits
• Countersink bit
• Masking tape
• Backsaw
• 1/2-inch-wide chisel
• Mallet
• Exterior wood stain
• Paintbrush
Take a look at the step-by-step instructions for these hanging shelves.
To make:
1. Round off the corners of the pieces of lumber with sandpaper and chamfer the edges. Drill a 1/4-inch hole in each corner of each piece of lumber. The holes in the two back corners are 3/4-inch from each edge; the holes in the two front corners are 3/4-inch from the front edge and 1-inch from the side edge.
2. Predrill and countersink two 3/16-inch holes in the length of dowel, with one hole 3-1/8-inches from each end. Mark a pencil line around the dowel 5/8-inch from each end and a second pencil line 1-1/8-inches from each end. Put a piece of tape along the blade of a backsaw, 1/4-inch up from the cutting edge, and saw around all the pencil lines, ensuring that you do not cut, deeper than the tape.
