Dear european¹ craftingverse,
I'd like to put a #pegboard in my sewing room.
The local hardware stores sell the metal ones, and they have holes at an odd distance that I suspect is some absurd amount like one and a half inch or something, sometimes with two additional smaller holes in between.
Then there is the SKÅDIS line from IKEA, where the holes are at a decent and proper distance of 4 cm, but
a) they are made of particleboard instead of metal
b) I'd be afraid of getting stuck into an ikea-only standard
Are there other places that sell metric-based pegboards?
Is there something else I should consider?
Am I overthinking the whole thing?
¹ I'd prefer² any product recommendation to be available from a shop in the eurozone
² as in, I will just ignore anything else :D
#crafting (boosts welcome)
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Vi 💙
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Vi 💙 • •@Vi 💙 I'm right at the crafting/sewing room reorganization-in-a-new-place stage of a move :D
(I have access to a 3d printer, not a great one because it's one of the first (home) ones and it's showing its age)
(but then I guess that I could also adapt the SKADIS files to work with a different distance between holes, since the difference isn't that much.)
(argh, more things to consider)
(I'm not complaining :) I like overthinking these things :D )
David de Groot
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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drill: check.
sheet of metal: I guess I could find one
ruler: check (multiple)
centre punch: I don't think I have one, but I guess it's not hard to find
enough time: (tumbleweeds rolling)
:D
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
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The sides of dead fridges are a good source of sheet metal.
David de Groot
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua do you also have a good source for “enough time”? :D
@David de Groot
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @David de Groot
(and no, I can't use the time I use to handsew garments: that's usually the kind of time when it would be pretty unsafe for me to be around any kind of power tools, be it a drill or a sewing machine)
(and that's one of the reasons why handsewing is great: it fills that kind of time when want to do stuff, but aren't able to do anything that requires more than a modicum of concentration)