I recently made this custom-built coat hanger for a customer, and in this post I walk you through the steps of building and assembling the coat hanger (also see the video below).
The coat hanger is made of 24 individual pieces. 18 movable pieces and 6 stationary pieces (two on each side, and two in the middle). The stationary pieces are also used to mount the hanger on the wall. Out of all pieces, 22 are connected with a 3/8″ threaded rod, and the two outer pieces are glued. The glued pieces are there to hide the thread rod and the bolts.
The customer ordered the coat hanger to be 24″ length. So I cut 24 pieces of wood (combination of maple, walnut, pine) with my table saw, each 1″ wide. The thickness of each piece is 1.5″ and the length is 7″.
Using a miter saw, I miter the top of each piece to 45° and the bottom to 30°. Then I drilled a 3/8″ hole, 1″ away from the bottom of each piece. I assembled the coat hanger by passing the threaded rod through all pieces.
After assembly, the raw coat hanger was out of square and not flat due to the errors during the measurements and error caused by the tools. So once again, I used my table saw and squared the coat rack as one piece. Finally, I used my home-made router sled to flatten the front and the back of coat hanger.
Each individual piece was sanded and finished with a coat of stain, shellac or Osmo PolyOil. After final assembly, I used crazy glue to attached the two outer pieces.
