Enthusiast III
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Advocate III
Trail Blazer III
It's real easy to build just a little time consuming. Its a surplus 30MM can and then just poplar board from Home Depot that was ripped to fit snugly with 3/4inX3/4in legs that hold it off the bottom of the can in all 4 corners. Bought a cheap hole saw kit on Amazon and measured out my favorite bottles, mixers bitters, etc. After building a few of these, I bought better hole saws and it made a world of difference, but for the first one, the Amazon ones held up. Top tray is just screwed together and rests on more 3/4inX3/4in that is screwed in through the outside of the can in the middle of the handle. Threw some rubber non slip matting on the bottom of the can to keep it from rattling, along with little felt furniture pads on all corners of the top tray to keep it from rattling as well.
Enthusiast III
Benefactor
Thanks! I have sold one, but I’m getting ready to move cross country and don’t have the time to build any so I figured I’d just share the design for the greater good haha
Unfortunately I don’t. I just bought 12in wide poplar board and measured the opening of the can. I think the can is around 11in wide so a bit has to be ripped off. Other than that I measured the diameter of my favorite bottles and picked the appropriate hole saw diameter and just spaced them evenly. It works best if you cut the board just a hair bigger than the can and sand it until it fits snugly but flush. I think the feet under the main platform are 2in long of just 3/4x3/4 pine trim. If you look closely you can see the screws holding the feet on the 4 corners of the main platform just to keep it from sliding down. The top tray is the same measurements as the bottom with the trim just screwed on top of it from the bottom side. Then you just measure where to top tray sits flush with the top of the can and add the two trim pieces on either side of the can. I drilled pilot holes and used metal screws coming in from the outside of the can and into the back of the top tray supports. I’ve done it with both 25mm and 30mm cans and with all different assortment size holes for mixers, bitters, specific bottles, etc so I’m afraid there was never a template. Finish is off with a nice stain and two coats of polyurethane and you’re set.
Member I
Advocate III
Maker's Mark, Loretto, Kentucky! Good choice in Bourbon and great little town; worked a show there one night.
Member I
it's a sin in my book to cut good Bourbon with any mixers. I like my Bourbon straight up on ice.
Advocate III
Agreed, sometimes even no ice. My brothers and I used to sit out back by a fire ring with a bunch of different bourbons and blind taste test out of jiggers to see if we could tell one from another. Maker's Mark, Woodford Reserve, Elijah Craig, Buffalo Trace, even Jim Beam and such. Made for some pretty interesting evenings. They'd be smoking big ol' cigars, I'd just smoke my non-filters.
Traveler III
Advocate III
