Sometimes it is the weirdest things that start to become problematic. Recently I found myself fighting a stupid problem - I had no proper place to hang my kitchen towels after washing the dishes. I could hang it over the center bridge of my sink - but that kept the towel moist during the day as it kept getting splashed when you wash something. I could hang it over the kitchen countertop, but then I could not easily open the cabinet underneath. And there is no towel hanger in my kitchen. So...

I decided to solve that problem by combining some Maple offcuts I had lying around from a previous project into a JIT designed towel rack. I have to emphasize, I eyeballed everything in terms of angles and design. It is not perfect, but it does seem to work. I have finished the project with Polyurethane as that seems to have good water resistance. Also, I added four small rubber feet to lift it from the kitchen countertop. Another thing to note is that this is the first time I made dowel sticks from standard flat stock - using a spokeshave and a block plane I rounded three square pieces of maple into dowel sticks, and it was successful enough that the round holes I drilled with my brace and bit, fit snugly.