I already made a stand for my loose metric taps & dies but I was never really happy with it. The taps always got stuck in the holes and it took up way too much room, so I made a new one! The old one looked like this... What with planning, marking out, routing and sanding its taken 2 days... and I haven't lacquered it yet!
Thanks @Norman, this how I planned it out... ...then there was a lot of measuring and marking out followed by some slow, careful router work. Routers can unexpectedly catch hold of the wood and chew themselves a nasty gouge so I worked slowly and held on very tight.
Great job. I've worked with routers before. Yes, they can damage the wood in a split-second if the working angle and movement gets wrong. Especially the hand-held ones.
Very well made and very useful. Endeavouring to find the correct tap as one gets older is difficult with the smaller sizes as the writing often becomes indistinct. This case sorts that out.
Yes, mine is a hand held and some of the channels had to be routed by hand following a pre-drawn curve.
