Make Your Own Wooden Beer Caddy
Our whole family got involved in the building of these caddies (father Val, brother Aaron and sister Des). It was our lucky day when a friend called to say he had some reclaimed lumber we could have. He found a large amount of beautiful 100-year-old wood from an old board-and-batten-style barn in Wisconsin.
It took us three days in the shop to transform that gorgeous wood into 20 beer caddies. Each caddy requires 2-1/2 board feet, has black pipe handles and a bottle opener on the side. Each wooden beer caddy holds 8 longneck beer bottles or 6 heritage beer bottles, which have fatter bottoms.
You can find a plan for the wooden beer caddy and a list of materials below. We show a couple of jigs that help streamline the process, so you can build a bunch of these at the same time.
If you can’t find old barn boards, you can use 3/4-inch pine or cedar (and you can skip the planing step). Then, follow these instructions for aging wood.
Project Drawings and Materials List
Article source here: DIY Reclaimed Barn Wood Beer Caddy
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