Today I built a storage thing for our garden tools – rakes, spades, apple pickers etc. The tools are now contained and supported, and grabbing one no longer makes the others fall down. A “someday” project I can cross off my list now!

It’s functional and solid, but a closer look shows it’s a clumsy thing. I forgot to take the offset of the vertical pieces into account when measuring and cutting the top pieces, so the top pieces are 1 cm too short at each end.

And all the other pieces (that are the right length!) went wonky when I screwed them together. I think it’s because the holes I drilled were not exactly at 90° so each piece was pulled slightly askew. We have no proper workbench and definitely no drill press.

For this project it doesn’t really matter much. This thing will stand in the basement where I won’t see it very much. It solves the problem I want it to solve, and it is solid and stable.

But I’ll be making a drill jig when I next want to build something.