It’s a 1″ x 2″ piece of red oak I cut to about about 14″ (which is really 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ x 14″). I just used the size of the corner brace to set the depth of the shelf and dowels. If the brace had been bigger, I might have made the boards a little longer.

I get so many compliments on this thing, but the best part is that it gets all of our awkwardly shaped pans out of the cabinet. Not only do they take up a lot of space, but good pans get scratched and warped by stacking them one on top of the other. This pot rack solves that problem.

But I wouldn’t do the dowels the same way again. I used white oak dowels and they bend a bit more than I’m comfortable with. If I had it to do over again, I’d use some old rebar or thin lengths of electrical conduit for added strength. I don’t hang my cast-iron pans on the rack right now because of the flex in the oak.

It might be fun to go to a salvage yard and see what kind of metal rods you can come up with. It sounds like some old brass rods would complement the antique braces you’re already planning to use.

Good luck, and send me a picture of the finished product.

Chad

Thank you;
Leo