{"id":185,"date":"2015-09-26T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:07:18","slug":"185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Roller Derby Equipment Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180626-e1464900342156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-183 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180626-e1464900342156-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150925_180626\" width=\"474\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180626-e1464900342156-576x1024.jpg 576w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180626-e1464900342156-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180626-e1464900342156-768x1365.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For her birthday, I gave Sara a good-for-one-project coupon. \u00a0A while later, she redeemed it for a rack she saw online that would hold all the gear it takes to participate in roller derby bouts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180541-e1464900665922.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-181 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180541-e1464900665922-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150925_180541\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I sketched out a template to use on paper, then did my best to transfer it to some cheap plywood. \u00a0It came out okay, but I wasn&#8217;t getting straight, clean lines with my jigsaw. \u00a0With some re-jiggering, I sketched out a design in Illustrator that was slightly smaller so that I could then cut the side arms out on the CNC machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180605-e1464900363552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-182 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150925_180605-e1464900363552-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150925_180605\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Using my tetris skills, I was able to arrange the parts out so that I could cut all the parts I needed\u00a0out of one sheet of 2&#8217;x4&#8242; plywood. \u00a0This way, I could knock out four racks from one sheet of expensive birch ply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150919_164721-e1464900323791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150919_164721-e1464900323791-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150919_164721\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150919_164721-e1464900323791-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150919_164721-e1464900323791-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_20150919_164721-e1464900323791-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>Coated the whole thing in tung oil, then cut logo decals on the vinyl cutter. \u00a0The smaller &#8216;wrecker&#8217; emblem logo was too complex for vinyl, so I headed over to Schenk&#8217;s to laser-engrave the logo into a disc that would fit into a pocket that was carved out by the CNC. \u00a0This way, if Sarah is promoted\u00a0into one of the top-tier leagues, the emblem can be replaced with her current league logo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For her birthday, I gave Sara a good-for-one-project coupon. \u00a0A while later, she redeemed it for a rack she saw online that would hold all the gear it takes to participate in roller derby bouts. I sketched out a template to use on paper, then did my best to transfer it to some cheap plywood. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roller Derby Equipment Rack<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}