Well after several years of collecting routers and playing “Where’s Waldo” with their accessories I started looking at ways to keep everything together without giving up shelf space and keeping them easily within reach.

So I kept looking in magazines, books and on the web looking for something I liked or didn’t like about what others have made or sold.  After about 3 minutes of that (ADD kicked in I guess) I said heck with it and opened up Sketch Up.

With that I basically spent an evening (according to my wife anyway) drawing and redefining the design to make a shelf that held 3 routers (but let you keep a bit loaded) and had a shelf to house the wrenches and other crap that you never use but don’t want to throw away.

Armed with that plan, I set off to the garage to build 2 of them but before I cut anything I redesigned it yet again.

In my original plan I had my bottom shelf attached to the sides/dividers with a ½ dado but decided I wanted to beef up that support. So I moved the bottom and the shelf up ¼” so I could make full dados instead.

I don’t know if anyone had a need for anything like this so I’ve uploaded my original Sketch Up file into the 3D Warehouse for you to download and use. It works well and its super easy to build.

(Actually, I could have sworn I saw a version of this idea in an old ShopNotes so Ann & I spend an hour combing through every issue of it and Woodsmith magazines I have.  After coming up empty handed I figured I must have drept it up then went to Sketch Up.)

Well while we did finally move, we have yet to unpack.  As a matter of fact, here are photos of what we have to get out of our garage and basement before I can set up shop.

Note: Sorry for the quality, they were taken using my new iPhone and I’ve yet to learn how to adjust the settings.