Spec rack

I don't know about you, but I seem to gather reading glasses, yet can never find the pair I want/need. Most of the time I wear multi-focal contact lenses, but I need cheapo readers to use with the computer and heavier duty specs when I'm not wearing lenses. So the problem of how to store them has been exercising my mind for a short while.

Today I came up with a solution. Take one stave from an oak wine barrel. Drill three holes in a triangle at each end. Poke some cord through one of the holes at either end. Tie two knots. Click about six staples across the cord to stop it from sagging. Fix to wall using the remaining four empty holes & hey presto, a spec rack.

There are at least a couple of dozen staves in a barrel and we can buy a five-year-old barrel from any of the thousands of winemakers here in the Languedoc for around 30 euros, so with cord, screws and rawlplugs that makes it around 2 euros for the rack. The wood is french oak - and at least 100 years old and smells of wine when you drill it. Now, if only I had a few more specs so that I could make another one.