Coat stand?

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Jameshow

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Our cheap metal coat stand has given up the ghost.

So I'm thinking if making one.

Octagonal 4x4" timber gives me 40mm faces.
Ideal for 8 1-1/2 pine hooks at 45 degrees with a bit of sculpting.

The trunk can either be turned or left octagonal.

It's the feet that I'm struggling with bird table style looks naff. Perhaps some 1 1/2 timber again at 45°???

Any thoughts?

Cheers James
 
An idea, and it is only a thought. Octagonal – yes I like that and coming down at 45° to the floor, four legs but they start a bit higher up so they are quite long and then nearer to the floor another four legs coming out at 45° but from the other four faces, total overkill and it might look totally naf. Ian
 
Please remember I wasn’t suggesting it was a good idea lol.
 

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So I googled coat stand then I moved onto images and selected wooden, I think the problem with them is that they are tall and thin and need bits sticking out at the top. Some of the old style bentwoods were relatively attractive but none of them really float my boat at all.
Or you could go really funky and have it mounted from the ceiling?
I once saw a wall mounted coat peg design where the pegs flipped out when needed but how you would build that into an upright coat stand I haven’t worked out yet.
 
So I've brought the 4x4timber and the 4x1 1/2.

I'm wanting to do sliding dovetail joints as you might find on a pedestal table. What should the dimensions be?

The joint will be just shy of 6" long.

I was thinking 1" deep X 1" X 1 1/4 wide???

I will do the top hooks the same too. The lower kids ones can be tenon.

Cheers James
 
Almost done, just a little filler needed.

Cheers James
 

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