Bench Muffins and a Bench Cake

I love it, Intelligent, Simple, Utility at its best. I am going to dig all the blanks I made with the hole cutter out of my scrap bin and make a set of these. Thanks!

-- I played with Legos as a kid and I never had the part I thought I needed, so I learned to improvise. Now I'm an engineer with a woodworking hobby.

HAH, great minds think a like. I made 4 of the square ones a while back. As you know they do work!

Oops.
Thought it said Beach muffins.
Just had to have a look.

Dallas,

If I didn’t know better, I call that “Good old Yankee Engineering”! But since you are from Texas, I guess that was just “Thinkin’ Big(time) Outside the Box(store)”!!!

Thanks for sharing.

-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow! If good things come to those who wait.... Why is procrastination a bad thing?

Actually I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and Texas is just where my job is right now. I’m on my way back west even as we speak, I just haven’t moved anything yet. I figure I’ll get there in another 5 or 10 years and that’s fast enough for me.

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!

yup, gr8 ingenuity Dallas. I’ve been saying a lot of things like these, woodworking accessories, are way overpriced. I’ve done stuff like these, but wasn’t smart enough to attach the no-slip permanently.. gr8 idea

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I love a good do-it-yourself idea! Thanks for posting!

-Jim; aka “Stumpy Nubs”
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I think that the next batch I make won’t have contact cement since it’s pretty messy using it with the mesh liner. The next time I’m going to try 3M #77 spray adhesive.

I had to rethink my costs for the ones I did build. I think I only used about 10¢ worth of glue and liner for all five pieces. There is still most of a roll of the liner left and I would have just wasted the contact cement anyway because I was putting some Formica down and had to clean the brush somewhere anyway!

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!

GREAT JOB! Who cares what they look like? We hardly seem them anyway!

-- LittlePAW - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon.

Great ingenuity. I’m going to make some today. anybody got any ideas on the angle needed for the “painter's pyramids?

-- When asked what I did to make life worthwhile in my lifetime....I can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served a career in the United States Navy."

Don’t bother with those pyramids they leaves dent in your work. Just put some screws though a pc of wood and it will be better than those.
I like the muffins too. I also made some!

I use carpet tack strips. They can be cut down to any size you need and nailed to scrap 2×4 if you need them higher but be careful, those tacks are extremely sharp

-- Allan, Baltimore MD

the pyramids are too light, if your project is not sitting level on them , when you spray, they can be blown out from under the project, and the next thing you know, it is laying on its side, with the fresh finish down. don’t ask how I know this.lol

-- Smitty!!!