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scrollsaw-blade drawer

Make this fabulous little storage unit with common cove moldings available at any home center.

Tired of constantly fussing around with your scrollsaw blades? With this clever helper made from common cove moldings, you can easily retrieve blades by reaching in with a finger and sweeping the blades up along the curved edge of each hollow.

To build the drawer, glue and clamp the cove pieces together. Then, screw the guides underneath your bench or scrollsaw stand. A string keeps the drawer from sliding out too far, and a brad nailed to one guide stops the drawer flush with the front of the bench.

Project Design: James R. Downing Photograph: Hopkins Associates Illustration: Roxanne LeMoine

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Comments (3)

tb4x41 wrote:

Great idea. To make picking uo a blade easier, use 1-1/2" pieces of the molding glued to a 1/4" plywood base with a 2-1/4" gap for fingers. Make base 1/4" widder than molding glue-up and use in groves for drawer slides. Just my 2 cents worth.

4/20/2011 10:54:49 AM Report Abuse

jjt54501 wrote:

Looks very practical / I have some scrap molding to play with. Jim T.

2/20/2010 09:34:52 PM Report Abuse

popmoon wrote:

Great idea. Love how the molding was used to make this.

2/18/2010 10:02:51 AM Report Abuse