Build a wall rack with angled wooden hooks, a carved welcome and shelf, or surfboard-shaped parts. Explore real builds, open their shared designs and start a backplate layout in Easel.
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Start from a blank workpiece
Watch a new blank workpiece become a six-by-three-inch rectangular backplate with three evenly spaced holes. Add a square, resize it and choose an outside outline cut. Add three circles, position them along the middle and set their cut depth to the stock thickness. The native 3D preview shows the holes through the board. This small layout demonstrates the controls, not a finished rack or screw specification. Resize the board for your hooks, match each hole to your chosen hardware and plan separate wall fixings before making a load-bearing rack.
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A narrow hook rail suits jackets by the door. A shelf adds space for small objects, while a surfboard rack can hold towels and hats. Choose the shape and assembly that fit your room.
Modern Coat rackby Jack GravesGraves makes a modular rack from three-quarter-inch plywood, with angled wooden hooks on straight wall rails. The populated workpiece supplies rail and hook outlines. Match the slots and cut depth to your plywood thickness, then add suitable wall hardware; the preview stock is set to 0.8 inches.
Coat Rack with Shelf - Irish Welcomeby Charlie - River's EdgeA carved Irish welcome sits below a shelf with decorative trim. Three shared workpieces contain the lettering, shelf and bracket layouts in different groupings. Add the pegs, wall fixings and assembly for your room. Carving its V-bit lettering in Easel requires Pro; the photo shows the finished rack rather than just the engraved panel.
Surfboard rackby Gavin TonksTonks uses surf fins as hooks on a surfboard-shaped backboard. The photographed rack holds caps and towels. Open the last workpiece for editable board and fin outlines; the other tabs include separate experiments and imported machining files. His instructions explain the shaping and assembly beyond the flat outlines.
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Tonks sands the fins after cutting to give them a curved hydrofoil shape and expose the plywood layers. The flat outline is only the start of that rounded finish. He also specifies both glue and screws for joining fins to the backboard, then sealing the wood. Decide how you will shape and attach the hooks before choosing the board thickness.
Project notes by Gavin Tonks: read the source.
From Surf Towel/Hat/Bag/Coat/Key Rack by Gavin Tonks.
Ask a questionFor his wood-and-wire racks, Burdett holds blanks in shallow fixture pockets and keeps the same X and Y origin through the sequence. He resets Z to the top of the blanks for slotting, then resets it again after changing to the keyhole cutter. That distinction matters when several operations share one fixture: preserve the horizontal reference while measuring each new tool's height.
Project notes by Ted Burdett: read the source.
From Wood and wire coat rack by Ted Burdett.
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