During my first week of Physical Therapy school, two of my classmates introduced me to this game. It is called Kubb and Swedish in origin. Being Norwegian myself, I loved the game, so I quickly built a few sets. I highly recommend it, as simple or as complicated to make as you want, and a blast to play!
Made this for a grade school son of a friend. He wanted a small rack to hold his small collectible bats and signed baseballs. i Took it a step further and made it large enough to hold his game balls and the bottom shelf has 2 pegs to hold his mitt and hat and also 2 slots to hang his full sized bats by the handle. 2 hidden slots in the back to keep it snug against the wall without an exposed nail/screw.
This is my very first “by myself” project. Sure, back in the day in cub-scouts I build a tool caddy and a few other things, but this bed, from design to final assembly all had my name on it. I did have a extra pair of hands a couple of times (thanks Honey!), but this was the first time I took some think from the drawing board to the workbench to it’s full-time use.
I learned a lot in the process – and it only whetted my appetite to improve my design, construction techniques, and fit of parts. (I’m in the process of building a table for my brother-in-law so he can play a game called ‘Warhammer 40k’ on it – a lot of what I learned in this project is helping here).
In any case, I built this during my senior year of college for my wife and I, and it needed to be done one a budget, and quickly. So, I build it out of cedar posts, and pine dimensional lumber. I had a sander, a power drill, and a shop that one of my neighbors was very kind to let me use (compound miter saw, small table saw). I wanted it to be easy to assemble/disassemble, and I succeeded at least in that regard.
All in all, not bad for a first project, and I left it with my brother-in-law (different one) so he and his wife would have a bed of their own, since I graduated and my wife and I would be moving on.
I’d be happy to share my sketch-up file for it, if you’d like to use it as a starting place for a similar project.
Well the wife saddled me with the task of organizing the kid’s room. I thought I would start with the video games all over the place so here is the result. I built a stand that will hold roughly 65- 70 games per shelf as well as videos, DVD and Cd’s. Might be a good start to getting the rooms straight. Now what to do with the rest LOL stay tuned.
Props go to Marcus for discovering and sharing this wonderful 3d pencil drawing created by reddit user fnord-prefect. Totally realistic if you ask me, it almost lures you to try and look under the table to see the rest of the greek columns bursting out from the paper grid. I totally love this one. How about you?
