Health Fruit Rack : An apple for the road.

Hi,

As you may know, students do usually not have a good and healthy diet.
I am a student!

I thought I should care a bit about what I'm eating, and I remembered the saying :

" An Apple a Day, Keeps the Doctor Away "

I bought apples and tried to apply this adage, but I figured out that it's easy to forget it.

So, as a New Year Resolution,
I built a RACK for apples and other fruits

which I can attach on the back of my entrance door

So when I leave, I pick up a fruit For The Road !


In This Instructables I'll show you:

- How to build this very simple rack ( of course )
- How to make a very efficient tool for wood engraving.
- How to nail together 2 pieces of wood without seeing any nail.

Step 1: Parts and Plans

I wanted to do a very simple project, with a few inexpensive parts.

In fact I took what I had around :

- a plank  210 x 10 x 1 cm + a few off cuts of wood (optional)
- a bag of wooden BBQ Sticks

and that's all !

Now we make some plans.

Don't care about the big ink stain, it's from my previous Instructable : DIY Rubber Stamp Making  !!

Comments

[Lorddrake]

awesome idea. the only change I would make is not storing your bananas with your other fruits.

Bananas give off ethylene gas which will ripen other fruits much faster than normal.

[jovolomo]

I didn't know that!
I'll let the bananas in the old fruit cup.

Thanks for the advise! ; )

[Biggsy]

If it's on the back of your door, how are you stopping the fruit from falling off the sticks when say if someone slams the door? I can see what yuo have done with the sticks, (having one mid way up the item of the fruit) but what I'm wondering is, does it ACTUALLY stop all the fruit falling out?

Great Instructable anyway, when I was a student my fruit came in fermented liquid form... but you know... whatever works ;)


Great job

cheerio

and have a high five for trying to be healthy!

-Biggsy

[jovolomo]

Thanks for appreciating!

my laptop screen still have the shape of my left hand, drawn in the saw dust my hand removed! lol

Of course, if sb slams the door, fruits would fall, unless you put the front stick a bit higher (as I first designed on the pattern)

Doing so would result in creating a space a bit smaller than the fruit itself.
Which is not a problem because the sticks are a bit flexible.
So you can put and take fruits, and they would be blocked if they were about to fall.

But as my entrance door is also my bedroom door and my living room door and my kitchen door, and as my room is at the last floor,
I do not risk a lot !!


thanks, eat apples!

ps: nice job with the trebuchet