Tools to Build a CD Rack

Series Summary

Sometimes, you just can't find the right piece of furniture, whether it be a CD rack or shelf for storage. Your walls may be too small or too long. A window may be too low or too high. Also, a simple trip to a furniture store may be enough to make your money belt tighten. Finding the right piece of furniture can be exasperating and financially depressing. However, there is another option. What if you could make the perfect piece of furniture for your home? Now, it sounds terrifying, but with some simple instruction, you might be surprised with what you can create.

In this free video series, an expert on electronics will teach you how to build your own CD rack from start to finish. Storing compacts discs, or CDs, can be a hassle, and sometimes those cases can pile up. However, with these instructions, you'll be able to keep your CDs neat and organized. From what tools and materials you need to prepping shelves, mounting brackets, and putting together the shelves, these videos have it all. You'll learn how to properly display and store as many CDs as you see fit. It just depends how big of a shelf you want to build! Save space and display your CDs in style.

Video Transcript

"I'm Tony Ramirez from Tampa, Florida and on behalf of Expert Village this is how to build a cd rack. In my case a media rack. Let's go! So the first thing we are going to talk about is the tools that we need. So in this case one of the main things that I'm using is cordless drill. Of course this is your standard drill it does not really matter. Most of my stuff that I?m going to be using has a Philip's head so the attachment that I'm going to use. What else I'm also going to be using a little hand saw this is what I'm going to be using to cut the shelves that I have down to the size, or anything down to flush down to the wall. It is a little handy dandy saw. I'm going to be using a laser level. This is self explanatory, I'm going to actually be shining this on the wall and it would give me a straight line. So when we start making or mounting the shelves and things like that I would actually have a perfect straight line. In addition I?m using trusty tape measure. Of course it is just a standard tape measure. I would be measuring my spacing in between my shelves. When I'm actually mounting the side brackets, anything that I need to do I would be doing with this. Have yourself a pencil or a marker so you can make marks on the wall or on the wood, on the shelves that is really handy to have as well. Even a longer metal level or a standard metal level that is fine to. Have all those and those are the tools that I'm going to be using for hits actually project."