Wooden paint jar stands?

You mean something like this.  It was made from plywood and sheet metal.  I just wish I had made it bigger.

Yes - VERY nice!!  I am hoping something like this is available for purchase.  Otherwise, I will have to pretend I have carpenter skills and attempt to make one from scratch!

I made mine entirely from 1x2" furring strips (from Lowes). It's not stepped though, just flat against a wall.

 Basically lay it out flat on the floor, using some various size paint bottles at guides to the distance between the shelves. I made a few shelves with more space at the top to accommodate small spray cans like Testors Dullcote and Tamiya primer.  Once I had the layout I wanted, I boxed the outside with a strip vertically on each side and screwed it together. Then I mounted the whole thing on the wall in my shop.

The hardest part was finding the studs in the wall.

Thanks Dave!

Try places that sell "Spice Racks" for the kitchen. There are many kinds out there.

Jim 

If you happen to find an LHS going out of business, you might be able to buy a manufacturer's display rack, like Testors or Tamiya.  That would give you plenty of capacity, for sure!

Jim and Chuck ---> Excellent ideas - thanks!

I use quarter inch hardboard, with a quarter inch square piece of wood at front edge to make a lip.  I use various things to mount the strips to my pegboard back and sides- sometimes another strip of quarter square wood glued on, sometimes angle brackets.

I use a Testors paint rack I got from the local five and dime when it closed. I also have a wooden rack which holds small souvenirs. It is from Add 'n Stac from Eatontown, N J. My son found it is a discount store. It has 24 slots, each holding four jars of paint.

I admit, I filched a couple of the kids blocks....made a little shelf.

I made this about 15 years ago.Works well for me.  

I bought finger nail polish racks on ebay.  they work great for Tamiya, model master, and testors paints.

My paint rack is 4 tiers 5 feet long. In other words it looks like stair steps. Made from supplies I had in the garage. If I can do it anyone can.

Hey there Thlorian!

Last year I took a welding class at my local tech college.  The instructor told us that for our final project, we could make whatever we'd like.  Some people built bike trailers.  Some did artwork.  I made a customized shelf for my hobby bench.  It holds all of my paints, brushes, thinners, glues, etc, and it even has some areas for my most used reference materials.

Schools like the one I attended are always in need of project ideas for their students.  I can't help but think that if you drew up a set of plans for a storage unit/shelf, your local community college welding program would be all too happy to have it built for you.  It would probably only cost you the basic cost of the steel and that would be it.  That's how my school does it anyway.  I think I built my shelf for around $20 - $25.  The students get the experience and you get the shelf built exactly as you'd like it.  It's a win/win.

Just something to ponder,

Eric

PS.  I just thought of something.  I only speak from my welding class experience but I can't help but think that the same thing would apply to a woodworking class.

I made my own.

One, for small Testors bottles and holes for brushes/tools. Built into my work bench...

3 tiers, made of 1X4 pine.

Built another from 1X2 pine and trim, for MM bottles...mounted on the wall...(just left of tv.)

I like to have one of each bottle at hand all the time,,,with the FS numbers on labels on the jar tops.

I had a wooden rack that looked like a 3 foot wide shot glass display,,,,,but, the bottles stood up in the shelves,,,,and it wasn't modular, so it couldn't grow with the number of paints.

So, I made this framework for plastic organizers.

It has changed quite a lot in the last year and a half, there are now 6 of those large organizers and 3 of a smaller size, with the bottles in them, and far less Vallejo. I moved the Vallejo into the spare/back-up paint boxes as I got more Polly Scale and Aeromaster colors that replaced them.

I could expand this slightly one more time, but, then I would run out of "handy storage" and start having to bump paint colors off of the shelf and into the boxes with the duplicate stock.

hope this gives someone an idea

Rex

That's a great looking organizer Rex.  I wish I had room for something similar.  It appears that you have it high enough to afford some storage beneath it too; great use of space there.

Gary

Very nice!

Gary, underneath it is an old TV Entertainment center. I added a couple of shelves to the "TV area" and store all the plastic boxes of paint bottles down there.  Each box holds Four of the cardboard "6-pack" Floquil boxes. I like to have my bottles right near the rack, because you never know which bottle is going to run out when. To the left of the bottom part are a few stacks of plastic boxes with sanding films, etc. And the jugs of Distilled water, Alcohol, more Future, Windshield washer, etc.

Haha, it looks like a dangerous place to sit,,,,,,but, the living room has a wall of styrene, built or unbuilt, so, I don't sweat the Acrylic Paint area too much.

Mine has grown a lot, but, to start out wouldn't cost too much at first,,,,,just buy some wood, and one or two of those organizers, and leave yourself room to grow if you need it, if you get to 7 or 10 organizers full of paints, you are as nuts as I am, lol.

Rex

Hi;

    When I was a young tad in High School we would get projects like this .One was for tool racks for a Machine Operator/Toolmaker at Houdialle/Hershey industries in Lackawanna , N.Y. .

  Turns out it was my foster father"s before he realized I was in that class . This man was the BOMB as foster fathers go too !

Thlorian, I keep adding and subtracting all the time but the wooden rack I have right in front of me was made with simple furring strips and some 1X4's with a 1/4 inch back board. It holds full Tamiya paint sets and more easily. I've made a lot of smaller paint holders by drilling circular holes in 1X6's just large enough to hold pigments, paints or whatever and then screw another same size board underneath. Cheap and efficient, I'd rather spend money on kits and accessories. I also keep extra tools and parts in those racks you get at Home Depot for about $20. Terry

Thanks to everyone here!  Great ideas and magnificent work!  Can't wait to incorporate some of these for my workspace!!

Thlorian;

   I have to " pipe " in here That's right PIPE ! I got some pvc. pipe the right size for all my bottles and a piece of Storm door plastic  .Laid them out , Cut them 3/4 of the bottle heighth ,glued them together and now everything stays where it is supposed . I am going to get a length of 4" pipe and cut it lengthwise to make troughs to put my tools in too .      T.B.      P.S. Buy the smallest can of that glue .You won't need more .

See these from Woodbitz. They are very good and inexpensive.

http://woodbitz.com/

i made this rack using angle bracket . its 3foot square. the shelves are bolted on so i can adjust them to fit different bottles and reconfigure easily

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I found 2 of these at the Re-Store for $5 each.  I don't know what they were originally for, but they fit bottles perfectly!

Maxdtex - thanks for that link.  That's a cool site, I've bookmarked it for the future.  Those can replace the little wooden shelf I made from the kids' blocks.