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EleksMaker Memory Card Storage Tray

EleksMaker Memory Card Storage Tray
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This desktop accessory provides the perfect spot for storing memory cards. It looks like a circuit board, but it’s just a wooden storage tray. It’s got slots for SD cards, Micro SD cards, USB flash drives, and more. Be sure to select the “SD card” option when ordering. It looks great alongside the EleksMaker USB hub.

Roto Round Catch-all Tray

Roto Round Catch-all Tray
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These minimal handmade wood trays from Design Craft Workshop are made from solid walnut. We like the 8″ and 12″ versions for keeping track of your watch, wallet, eyeglasses, keys, and other everyday items. Larger models are available in sizes up to 23″ in diameter and make beautiful serving trays.

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Craighill Match Striker

Craighill Match Striker
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This 2″ cast iron desktop object offers an elegant and practical place to store and strike matches. Its shape is reminiscent of a giant match head and has a deep knurled pattern on its outside, providing the friction needed to start strike anywhere matches. (Matches not included.)

The Knife Deck

The Knife Deck
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Holme & Hadfield’s valet is designed specifically to hold pocket knives. It has four knife slots on top, which sit beneath a clear acrylic display box, while its drawer can hold everyday items like glasses, a wallet, and small pocket tools. Available in walnut or black finishes. They also make a model for watch collectors.

Making a Cardboard Parts Organizer

Making a Cardboard Parts Organizer

Carpenter John Heisz of I Build It typically makes things out of wood. However, with the high price of lumber these days, he decided to use cardboard boxes to build this parts organizer. We appreciate the attention to detail he put into crafting this multi-drawer parts storage unit.

Carbon Fiber Dump Tray

Carbon Fiber Dump Tray
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Keep your watch, wallet, keys, and other accessories organized in one of these handmade trays from Italy-based artist Virginio Brambilla. Each tray is made from real carbon fiber weave for a technical look and durability. The small tray measures 15 cm x 23 cm (5.9″ x 9″), and the bigger one is 20 cm x 37 cm (7.9″ x 14.6″).

Designing an IKEA Chair from Scratch

Designing an IKEA Chair from Scratch

Matty Benedetto of Unnecessary Inventions loves IKEA and hopes to collaborate with them someday. After the Swedish home furnishings company reached out to him, he thought it would be fun to design, prototype, and produce an office chair with a built-in pegboard so he could readily access hand tools while wheeling around his studio.

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PDW SPX Smartphone Pouch (Gen 2)

PDW SPX Smartphone Pouch (Gen 2)

The SPX Pouch from Prometheus Design Werx provides a safe place to carry your smartphone while hiking, climbing, or enjoying other outdoor activities. Its main compartment has pockets for a phone and a slim power bank, while its outer pocket holds cables or small pocket tools. It’s made from durable 500D Cordura and has MOLLE webbing on the back.

Artifox Oak Bike Rack

Artifox Oak Bike Rack
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Keep your space looking clean and tidy wood bike rack from Artifox. It’s fabricated from hardwood with a powder-coated steel hook for hanging your bike by its front tire. The long backing board keeps tires from marking up your wall and mounts easily. It’s available in walnut, white oak, or black oak finishes and holds bikes with tires up to 3.25″ wide.

Maratac X-Pac Secret Utility Pouch

Maratac X-Pac Secret Utility Pouch
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The slimline X-Pac Secret Utility Pouch from CountyComm is great for carrying pocket tools, pens, flashlights, and other small items. It’s made from durable and lightweight X-Pac fabric and has exterior pockets for skinny items and a zippered main compartment that’s ideal for cards, cash, and more.

The Night Caddy Bedside Organizer

The Night Caddy Bedside Organizer
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This smartly-designed accessory provides a place to store items by your bed without the need for a bedside table. The Night Caddy mounts between your mattress and box spring and provides space for your phone, reading materials, and up to a 32oz. drink or water bottle. It ships with a dual USB charger and a 6-foot cord.

Barbox Bartending Kit

Barbox Bartending Kit
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The Barbox makes a great gift for drink lovers, offering a complete home bar kit in a wall-mountable wood storage case. It comes with a 17-piece bartending kit, including commonly used steel bar tools, a portable bar stand, and a bar mat. It’s got a glass hanging rack on the bottom, and its front door doubles as a picture frame.

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Flight Trolley Vinyl Record Storage Cart

Flight Trolley Vinyl Record Storage Cart

Thai decor company ElementsDen is taking pre-orders for this metal record storage cabinet based on the carts flight attendants use on airplanes. It has a clear door so you can see your records inside, a stainless steel latch, and an optional pull-out drawer. The price works out to roughly $800, but shipping could get expensive. Pre-orders end 8.31.23.

Honeycomb DIY Storage Wall

Honeycomb DIY Storage Wall

Hexagons are the bestagons, so it only makes sense that they could make one of the most versatile DIY storage systems we’ve seen. Fix This Build That needed a place to store loose items in his workshop, so he 3D printed a honeycomb-shaped grid to hang on the wall, and that can accept custom modules like shelves, tool bins, and hooks.

Making a Round Parts Organizer Drawer

Making a Round Parts Organizer Drawer

Maker Neil Paskin previously created a cool parts organizer cart. Now, he’s back with another impressive build – a set of curved drawers that fit into a cylindrical tower. It took some geometry skills to figure out the angles for cutting its 24 triangular drawers, which he refined into curved shapes with a jigsaw and router. The whole thing spins on a turntable.

LEGO Desk Storage Drawers

LEGO Desk Storage Drawers
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Keep your loose LEGO blocks and other small toys or accessories inside these giant LEGO bricks. The plastic storage bins come in stackable 4-stud and 8-stud variants in vibrant primary colors as well as grey, white, and black. LEGO also sells a premium series of drawers made from natural oak wood.

Tactical Travel Tray

Tactical Travel Tray
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This handy travel accessory from Maxpedition Gear gives you a place to keep your phone, wallet, keys, eyeglasses, and other small accessories, so you know exactly where they are. It lays flat when not in use and snaps together at its corners or edges to form a tray or taco-shaped storage compartment.

Dango Capsule Slide

Dango Capsule Slide
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This machined aluminum container from accessory maker Dango is ideal for carrying small items. Slide back its cover to reveal a storage tray for keys, change, memory cards, credit cards, or business cards. It comes in jet black or satin silver and has an anchor point for paracord. It can also attach to A10 Adapt wallets.

Making a Liquor Cabinet from a Jet Engine

Making a Liquor Cabinet from a Jet Engine

Artist and maker Hassan Abu-Izmero was given the nacelle from a decommissioned jet engine as a gift. After thinking about what to do with the unusual piece of junk, he decided to clean out its interior, add shelves and lights, and turn it into a liquor cabinet for storing his whiskey. It’s a cool build, though we’d need a 777 engine to hold all our booze.

Thut Möbel 490 Tool Cabinet Workstation

Thut Möbel 490 Tool Cabinet Workstation

This 65″ tall rolling workstation designed by Benjamin Thut makes a great addition to a warehouse or other space with a smooth floor. It measures 33″ wide when closed, but opens up to reveal 83″ of shelves and an optional desktop. It’s made from Dibond aluminum composite with steel bars with casters for its mechanism.

CleverMade Collapsible Crates

CleverMade Collapsible Crates
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CleverMade’s lightweight plastic crates make it easy to store and carry loose items, but then get out of the way when they’re not in use. They have built-in handles, and their removable lid secures to the bottom of the crate. Available in a variety of sizes, with either solid or open sides. Sold three to a pack.

Worky Home Office Kit

Worky Home Office Kit
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Worky transforms any tabletop into an office in an instant. Its portable case contains a workspace for your laptop, a power strip with USB charging ports, a cable organizer, file and accessory storage, and a magnetic dry-erase whiteboard surrounded by LED lighting for video calls.

Knife Organizer + Display Case

Knife Organizer + Display Case
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Do you collect pocket knives? Keep them organized and easily accessible in this clamshell organizer case. It holds up to 64 knives in its four storage flaps, each lined with numerous elastic straps. You can also use it to store other kinds of pocket tools.

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