Today we’re gonna build this shaver stand bathroom organizer caddy thing I’m for us all right so all you really need to build this thing is a table saw a smaller one we’ll do a drill a sander and Hance our jigsaw not counting clamps sandpaper tape measures etc etc etc.
Thought that thought but one thing that’s key if you want to do that is starting out with wood that’s the correct thickness or about a quarter of an inch thick I unfortunately didn’t do that which meant that I had two reefs on mil a 3/4 inch thick board into two quarter inch boards and in doing that using extra couple thousand dollars worth of equipment but either way we’re both at the same point now with our quarter inch thick material so let’s get cuttin.
I started off over the table saw where I broke things down into rough pieces in this shot you can see the wood that I’m using was still pretty bowed but I decided to roll with it by the time it gets cut into smaller pieces a lot of that bow will go away and honestly it’ll work either way in this instance here these are all gonna be a bit oversized at this point and they’ll be brought down to their finished size when we do the bevel cuts a little bit later.
Anyhow I know it’s hard to tell the exact size of everything I’m cutting out so here’s a quick drawing that shows all the pieces and their final dimensions next stilt the table saw I cut all of my pieces to length by using a crosscut sled now here these actually are going to be the final dimensions so I marked it up on one piece set up a stop block and then I could repeat that same length cut on all the pieces after I had finished with that and still over at the table saw I tilted my blade to thirty seven and a half degrees I know that the gauge here says 52 and a half but trust me that on the table saw scale it would say 37 and a half right now and then I made marks on all of my pieces to help me keep track of what pieces will be cut with what angle so just to be clear what I’m drawing here is gonna tell me if the angle is steeper or shallow.
Cut and which direction it should be done but this isn’t a line that I’m gonna cut to and actually let me explain how this whole thing’s gonna work so as you can see the front leans back at a 15 degree angle the reason for that is it’ll make it a lot more convenient to rest your phone on so basically what we have is an acute 75 degree angle here and then obtuse 105 degree angle here you remember we had just set our blade to 37 and a half degrees in the last shot and the reason for that is that 37 and a half is half of 75 and you’ll also remember that my gauge said 52 and a half that’s because it’s measuring it from a starting point of 90 degrees but anyway like you might’ve guessed 52 and a half is half of our obtuse angle of 105 degrees what this means is that we only set our blade once lock it down.
This will enable us to make every angle that we need we’ll just need to cut two of the pieces horizontally and two of the pieces vertically but this drawing might actually explain it better if we separate it into pieces so if you imagine that this line which is drawn at 37 and 1/2 degrees is the blade you can see how the angles that we need to cut match up to it this one will need to cut vertically well this one we can cut horizontally so hopefully all that makes sense.
If not I actually have a whole video that talks about just this so I’ll link it below next I started marking out some slots on the top panel for where I’d be able to rest my razor and my shaving brush now I know not everybody uses one but you could certainly make this slot for something else a toothbrush or what have you but the point is your best stuff to make this an appropriate size for whatever you plan on holding rather than facing it off of what I’m making but if you want to know what mine are just for some reference they’re one inch wide and 3/8 of an inch wide I chose those because they worked and I had a Forstner bit and a drill that were those sizes so next over the drill press I use them to cut out a few holes that were close to the center of the board and it would become the ends of the slots and then over at the bandsaw I cleared out the rest of the material and here if you don’t have a bandsaw you could certainly use a handsaw or jigsaw to get the job done ok let’s cut back to a drawing so I can explain this next part