[Creative idea] Pencil dryer

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Pencil dryer

Create a rack for drying dishes in your kitchen using only a wooden board and a few dozen ordinary pencils. Pencils can be colored or plain, and you can spray them with spray paint in advance to unify them with color. If you want the whole dryer to be in a certain color, make the construction and then spray it with spray paint.

 

You can arrange the pencils the way you want, depending on the size of the dishes you want to dry on the stand. You can shape some of them higher than others to store bigger things. Form a fascia area on the side of the dryer or mount a grille. If you do not use the pencil eraser, you can use pencils that you have already used for the construction, shortening them to the same height.

Materials needed:

- 50-60 pieces of pencils
- wooden kitchen board
- drill
- wood glue
- drills with a pencil diameter

 

 

Instructions:

1. Collect enough pencils to make the dryer. They may be brand new or already used, with a full eraser or slightly worn. The important thing is that they are sturdy, so if they are broken or chewed, do not use them on the stand.

 

2. Cut the end of the pencils the same length with a saw or machine. You can shape several levels of the dryer so you can style pencils at different heights if you put them in different rows. If not, cut them all to the same height, whether new or used, how many are used, and whether or not sharpened.

 

 

 

3. You can use an old wooden cutting board or a wood board that you cut yourself as a base. If you are worried that the wood will be damaged by the water and you want to keep the dryer for longer, you can treat it with protective varnish or paint.

 

4. Draw a paper layout for the holes in the base. Print it out in a real size printer and pin it with a little tape on the kitchen board. Drill the holes through the paper and wood with a drill. The distance between them should be between 3 and 6 centimeters, the size of the opening - about 6 millimeters, and the depth - about 16 millimeters.

 

 

5. Depending on the size of the pencils, you may need to further shape the holes on the kitchen board. If you do not want the tips to enter, you can gently shape them with a sharpener. You can leave the pencils like this or apply a little wood glue and then insert them to make them stand more firmly on the base board. You can optionally apply spray paint in the desired color.

 

 

 

Allow the paint to dry and put on the drying vessels.