29€ on Amazon. I did the math, and it fits up to 600 10ml bottles. I should have gotten a bigger one, but compared to the mess I had before this is a godsend. It takes me no more than 10 seconds to find any flavor from any brand. I used my label stickers for bottles as placement tabs by company name and location.
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Fancy! Nail polish racks where the easy option, but I get a lot of sunlight in my room, and the only free wall I can hang stuff is right in front of a window. I’ve opted for making my own “cabinet.” Which is going to be a 36"x24"x4" backless sort of shelf on the wall with a door. I’m gonna route out a bunch of holes into the wood that are the perfect fit for my flavor bottles. This way if I’m going to get one and bump another, I don’t have a mess of dominoes falling onto the floor. I’m using pallet wood, which is crappy wood but it’s nice and light, perfect thickness and good for hanging up. Gonna sand it down and stain it, try to make it look fancy.
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The disk for my random orbital sander should be here today!!! I can finally begin sanding down the wood for my shelf/cabinet thing. I’m excited! This is gonna be fun.
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I used shoe boxes to stockpile commercial juice!! And then used them for flavours, but the concentrates i initially only used Darkstar before discovered nom nomz, and the bottles all looked identical from the top with the black lid etc so had to lift out everyone to find a bottle I was after 
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What a transformation!!!
I got all the boards for the shelf part stained now. Looks like I’m gonna need more pallet boards to make the door. Oh that’s gonna be fun. I’m cutting the wood with a sawzall. Im gonna try to incorporate the imperfections into the project though. It’s my first time ever building something. Feels very satisfying.
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Not much more rewarding. Except for that one thing…
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I just realized, I’m a chauvinist pig! Woman and wood? Who’d’a thunk it? Crochet, quilting… I can’t see my wife taking a hammer to anything but the back of my skull…
Like Big Pussy and the Elvis impersonator.
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@Mediocre_Remedial if memory. serves I believe I used a 1 1/16" forsner bit to a depth of about an ⅛". Used only Flavorah 15mil bottles.
Hope this helps.
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@D.Sims I used MDF ripped in strips of 1 9/16". Used 1 1/16"forsner bit to make holes aprox ⅛" deep. each hole is 1 ½" on center leaving about an ⅛: between nbottles, front and back. The “stadium” is simply 1x2 fir strips glued and screwed to form bleacher type set up so all labels are legible. Hope this helps.
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Thank you. It’s a really awesome setup you got there! I couldn’t use a forsner bit… ones nearby where too large for my drill and I don’t have a drill press. I’ve got a bit for the drill designed to cut holes that I’m gonna try out today.
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Didn’t get that far, I’m leaving the polyurethane to dry overnight. Didn’t realize I had to “wipe the excess stain” it appeared to have soaked into the boards super quick. 
Hopefully I don’t have issues. It felt totally dry when I touched it this morning. Poly has been drying… slowly. Temps were 55 today so it’s understandable. Instead of sanding the next batch of boards down I decided to try and organize the garage instead. My muscles actually got sore from using that random orbital sander! Worth it though.
Oh, and I was just reading and read that stain rags can spontaneously catch fire!!! Well, yesterday I’d soaked the rag and rinsed it, initially I’d planned on trying to clean it, but it was old and I tossed it. Just now I went downstairs and dug through the trash to remove it. House fire is my absolute worst nightmare. I put it in a ziplock with tons of dish soap and water, sealed it up and sat it on a metal chair outside.
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Yes! I have a daughter-in-law that posted on facebook, about the “rich folks” in L.A. houses burning down. Something about big deal, they’re rich, they can afford to rebuild! WTF?
I’m not rich, and I don’t give a rats ass if my house burns down. I have insurance… I also have our wedding photo album IN THE HOUSE! THAT I care about! SIXTY years of memories! Morano glass from Morano Island, Venice Italy. Bone china from France with tall ships on them. Waterford lead chrystol for the wife for birthdays, valentines days, and get out of jail free cards.
Dunno whatcha call ‘em, drawers from a printers’ press that held the letters of the alphabet. Hung on a wall with cork screws from special occasions. Like the bottle of Champaign we opened after her marriage!
Or the Champaign we opened after a co-worker of my wife’s got canned.
Can you tell I have no respect for that woman?
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Your info about spontaneous combustion is old. That was back in the days when they sold oil base paints and stains to the public. The Mfg’s haven’t made oil base since the EPA fazed out oils. It’s got to be about 15 years now. Don’t believe everything AI tells you.
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That’s why it’s “Experimental” AI. If they’re experimenting with MY brain, they’re in for a shock! IQ? Can’t count past 10.
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When did I say I was reading it from ai? These were all people’s personal stories about oil based stain rags spontaneously combusting, and very recently.
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/u283bk/an_expensive_lesson_learned/
You must be from Canada, oil based stain is readily available for anyone to purchase in the USA.
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I sanded down the boards for the door yesterday. I also put my pieces together to see how I did cutting them, and not bad for using a sawzall. I wanted to drill the holes in the shelves yesterday so I could glue and tack everything together today, but the spade bit I got was a little too small. I think I need a 7/8 inch one. I want the bottles to be snug.
Not sure why I planned for a 36" wide shelf and not 36" tall one… I could still flip it around, id have to cut the shelf pieces in half, trim them and make extras. I think I’m gonna end up doing that. I just feel like opening a 36" long door is gonna feel weird. Because it will. Lol
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Let’s see a picture of your progress so far!
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I was working on it earlier, wow I just felt exhausted. Came upstairs and fell asleep for about 3 hours. Ran into some issues earlier since I’m using a sawzall to cut wood… I really want a mitre saw but Inalso already have a circular saw, I need to just get a blade for it. I paused before I cut any holes, I want it to look good and I was just too damn tired to continue.
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Please excuse the mess, I just abandoned shop earlier.
Got the frame here I changed my mind and I’m gonna make it tall instead of wide.
The boards I sanded down yesterday, I need another pallet or 2.
This was painful trying to cut these things with the sawzall earlier. I got them to fit eventually, but I’m getting a new blade for the circular saw tomorrow.
I’m gonna touch these up with stain and with the final coat of poly once everything is together. I gotta wait till it gets not humid and rainy to do the rest of the boards. I still have to cut the holes into these two, I was so tired earlier I just quit and fell asleep. I want it to look nice so I need to take my time and be refreshed.
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