Finito!

Everything finally dried yesterday, and the organizer got moved into my office. I was pleased to see that the finish matched that of the desk quite nicely. It appears well integrated with my office scheme. The three pictures I'm posting here include the finished version, an image of the original design sketch, and a photo taken after loading it up with stuff. As you can see, I stuck pretty close to the original design. I did have to lower the ruler holder bar thingie, else I figured I might have problems with the rulers catching on the overhanging top board when I went to take them out.


Then there is what I have been calling "the bow" of the thing--that angled bit of wood in the front. In the original design I showed it being straight cut with sharp corners, but in the end I decided to give it graceful curves that better complimented the curves of the vertical risers. I think I had always planned on having that be cut in a curve--it's just that I got lazy with the design software I was using! :)

I have referred to it as the bow because it reminds me of the bow on a Russian ice-breaking ship. And given how my workspace tends to get during crunchtimes, that's not a bad analogy. You see, I tend to get stacks of paper that take over my desk, along with big atlases that I need for cross referencing when doing map work. So now those piles can dash themselves against the bow of the organizer, but the contents contained within will be oblivious.

And that's really the reason I built the thing in the first place. I needed something that I could put stuff in so that they could be held above the morass and chaos of desk level. Case in point, I was constantly searching for the stupid magnifying glass. I'm always needing it for closely examining maps, but every time I went to use it, it would be buried under some book, paper, or tunafish sandwich. I was threatening to put it on a lanyard and wear it around my neck.

But now it has a home...a safe port. And I have to figure out what to build next! (After a bit of a break, of course.)