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I emailed back to the person that first posted it on mine and she worked for them for years and it came straight from the office. I to am in his debt forever.

hello, even though i have a mark v that's collecting dust, just want to know if you can please, share your expertise and knowledge of any tips on making a wooden rack to hold my embroidery and large serger spools of thread?

i've looked at the ones they sell at the various fabric shops and they're too small and i'd need too many of them to piece it together to have what i need.

i need a thread rack that will be approx. 5' across X 3' tall
here's what i purchased to get started:
several 1"x2"x5' pine boards
several 1/4" dowel rods

i'm trying to get back into woodworking but i'm getting a slow start by doing projects that i need around the home for starters. so i'm taking baby steps and would greatly appreciate your kind assistance, please.

here's what i'm thinking of doing and feel free to direct/correct me in the right direction, please, sir:

i wanted 1/4" thick, cross-piece boards but didn't know where to buy them so that's why i'm using all 1"x2"x3' or 5' lengths for the cross boards.

i was going to partially drill the 1/4" holes for the dowel rods to be glued into then, lay out 2 of the 1"x2"x3' vertically, approx. 48" apart then, marking my cross-piece boards far enough apart so i can easily take the spools of thread off as i need them without bumping into the other spools. i'm thinking that i either need to attach the cross-piece boards with screws that will go into the base boards or gorilla glue them in place. and then drilling a hole at the top of the base boards to fasten them onto my wall.

i'd appreciate your assistance, please sir.

rose

Do not know where this should have been posted, but here are a few ????/suggestions.

I assume you intend for the vertical pieces to be 3/4"(1x) from "wall" to facing surface. i.e. 1 1/2"(x2) surface facing wall and "user".

Are you intending to attach cross pieces the same orientation?(3/4" horizontal and 1 1/2" vertical).

Which surface do you intend to drill dowel holes in????(vertical surface or horizontal surface)?.

If vertical surface, the holes should be drilled at an angle so the dowels will slant down toward mounting board(keeps spools from sliding off}.

Both glue and screw horizontal boards to vertical boards or screw only(at least 2 screws/joint). DON'T depend on glue only!!!!!:(

Since you will be drilling many many holes for dowels, I suggest you purchase a "forstner" bit of the proper (1/4") size. It will drill a FLAT bottomed hole. Use quill stop to control hole depth. This bit drills at an angle easily.

Use a small tubing cutter (plumbers tool) to cut the dowels. Easier than saw etc.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!:)

clean.cut.rose wrote:hello, even though i have a mark v that's collecting dust, just want to know if you can please, share your expertise and knowledge of any tips on making a wooden rack to hold my embroidery and large serger spools of thread?

i've looked at the ones they sell at the various fabric shops and they're too small and i'd need too many of them to piece it together to have what i need.

i need a thread rack that will be approx. 5' across X 3' tall
here's what i purchased to get started:
several 1"x2"x5' pine boards
several 1/4" dowel rods

i'm trying to get back into woodworking but i'm getting a slow start by doing projects that i need around the home for starters. so i'm taking baby steps and would greatly appreciate your kind assistance, please.

here's what i'm thinking of doing and feel free to direct/correct me in the right direction, please, sir:

i wanted 1/4" thick, cross-piece boards but didn't know where to buy them so that's why i'm using all 1"x2"x3' or 5' lengths for the cross boards.

i was going to partially drill the 1/4" holes for the dowel rods to be glued into then, lay out 2 of the 1"x2"x3' vertically, approx. 48" apart then, marking my cross-piece boards far enough apart so i can easily take the spools of thread off as i need them without bumping into the other spools. i'm thinking that i either need to attach the cross-piece boards with screws that will go into the base boards or gorilla glue them in place. and then drilling a hole at the top of the base boards to fasten them onto my wall.

i'd appreciate your assistance, please sir.

rose

This is my interpretation of what you said you need. Is it close?

The vertical separation between shelves seems to be too large unless you are using rather large spools of thread. Are these sewing machine spools or are they embroidery machine spools. How tall are the spools? How many spools do you intend to store on this rack?
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Maybe a little commom sense here. This should have been posted else where. Not piggybacked on the news of John Folkerth's passing.

I got to meet him once at a Mall demo of the Shopsmith in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was very down to earth. After talking to him that night I knew I was a Shopsmith fan for life.

You will be missed

RIP