Making a Holder for Nespresso coffee pods

So I have this Espresso coffee machine at home and it uses these capsules or pods to make coffee and these are super convenient .

I just don't have a good way of storing them .

So in today's video , I'm gonna use this piece of oak to make a little holder for them .

Thank you so much for joining me in today's video .

Let's get started .

So even though there's a lot of different holders of these things out there , I still want to make my own .

But what most of the holders that you can buy have in common is the way they hold these pods and that is by grabbing onto this lip here .

So that's what we're gonna do as well .

So using a pair of calipers , we'll figure out how big of a hole we need for this entire capsule to fit through and how wide of a slot we need for these things to fit through .

And since this board is quite a bit too thick , we'll start by cutting it down to a couple of thinner slices .

And with that one thick piece is now three thinner pieces , I'm not gonna use one of the thin ones that was just to get the finished piece a little bit thinner .

It's not time to figure out the layout for the slots .

I'm gonna cut in this .

And the difference in size of those two slots is what's gonna keep the pods from falling out .

Once I put them in a hole and slide them down the slot , I'll draw it up and I'm sure that's gonna make more sense in a second .

I've measured it marked and I figured out how I want to cut this piece , I've marked all the areas where I'm going to remove material .

So it's a little bit easier for you guys to see .

So you can see there will be two slots , one here and one here for two different types of coffee .

And since these come in packs of 10 , I've made a slot long enough to fit 10 of these capsules .

So the idea is that on the top here , the hole is big enough to fit the whole capsule and then the slot is narrow enough to fit only the body of the capsule .

So I'll drill out those holes , cut the slots and then also round over the corners .

Perfect .

So I'm essentially done with the front piece here .

I cut out the holes with the whole saw and then I actually cut out the slots with a track saw because with the tracks saw , it's actually surprisingly easy to make really straight and precise cuts So now that this front piece is done , I've marked the whole locations up on this back piece and I'm now gonna use a router that is set to just the right thickness for the lip of these pods .

And then I'm gonna rubber out all the material that I don't need .

So those two pockets are routed and good to go .

It's definitely not pretty , but that's the beauty of it .

It doesn't need to be pretty because this thing we'll cover it up and now it's the first time that we can have a quick test to see whether or not this works .

Oh , look at that .

That's very promising .

Ok .

I'm just gonna give the inside of this thing a little champ and then we'll glue them together .

Ok .

So the glue on this thing is finally dry .

The piece that we glued on here needs a little bit of trimming off around the edges .

The whole thing needs a little bit of sanding and a chan for around the edge and then to finish everything off , we're gonna give it a nice coat of oil .

Funny .

Ok .

So this project is done .

I'm super happy with the way it turned out .

I let the oil dry overnight and then I attached it with some double sided tape .

That way I didn't need to screw it into the window frame here .

I think it turned out really nice and it does exactly what I need to do it holds these pods in a really nice way .

So this was a fun little project and I hope you enjoyed watching if you did make sure to give the video a thumbs up and hit the subscribe button and don't forget to ring that bell .

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Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video .

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