How is it that any time I need sandpaper, the grit that I need is the one that I’ve run out of? Well this sanding station will solve that problem! I made this custom build to hold my orbital sander and separate every grit of sandpaper that I use so that it is visible and easy to grab. Now I know whenever I run out of something and I can put it on my shopping list.
If you want to organize your sandpaper, read on and I’ll walk you through how I made this!
DIMENSIONS: 29″ H x 12″ W x 6″ D
Space between shelves are 2 1/2″ and 5 1/2″
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BUILD PLANS available HERE!
I started by cutting all the pieces of wood I needed out of 1/2″ and 1/4″ plywood. You could definitely use 3/4″ plywood instead, but this is what I had on hand and didn’t feel like it needed to be any more substantial.
Next, I penciled in marks where the shelves were going to go on the sides so I had a reference point.
I also made marks on the edges so I knew where to make the grooves for the shelves to slide in.
I cut the grooves on my table saw and used my brass setup blocks to set the blade height at .25″.
After cutting the grooves on the sides, I assembled the frame with pocket hole screws and wood glue. The frame consists of the two sides with the grooves cut, the top, bottom and backing. After that, I simply slid in the shelves! Note: The thicker shelf was screwed in and the thinner 1/4″ shelves slid into the grooves.
I screwed up a little bit on the center dividers and realized that the 1/4″ plywood wasn’t thick enough to have dados cut on both sides because it literally would have just cut it in half. So instead, I only cut the dados on the bottoms which threw off the measurements. had only measured to cut two grooves instead of one. It worked out fine with just the one groove on the bottom and I shaved down the dividers so they would fit. So if you are making this, double check the measurements on the dividers if you’re going to do it this way. You could also glue them in to make them more permanent and stable, but mine were a tight fit so I didn’t bother.
That is pretty much it! This was a fairly simple project and like everything, you can customize it to meet your needs. I wanted to make sure I had space for all the different types of sandpaper that I use on a regular basis as well as my orbital sander and some accessories.
Here is the sanding station along with all of the other tool storage projects I made for the french cleat wall. I did attach an accessory cleat so I could hang it and I go over the french cleat system in a previous post.
Until next time, happy DIY-ing!
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