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Our bathroom has very little extra floor space so the scale has been leaning up against the wall.

Taking adavtage of extra wall space behind the door to safely store the scale.

I constructed it like a very short drawer. Cherry sides with 3/16" plywood bottom.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, this is a good idea! I used to lean mine against the wall but one day it slipped and ended up shattering (was 99% glass, whoops). Since then I’ve got one flat on the floor but it’s a little in the way, so something like this would be great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Our toddler messing with this glass scale was the inspiration! I bet an off the shelf letter holder would work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love it! You can also keep an old iPad in there for “reading material”!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's what I thought it was before I read the description.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Very functional, good project!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Beautiful and I like those joints. May I ask how you attached the bottom to it? And is everything just glued?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There's a groove on the insides of the walls that the plywood fits into.

Plain wood glue for the corners but the bottom is not glued in order to let the sides move with humidity changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That’s gorgeous. How did you cut the grooves / notches? Table saw?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm not sure how OP did it, but a dado blade set on a table saw is how I would do it.

You could also use a router.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Router table but yeah a table saw would do it too.

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