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Spice Samurai: Wall mounted sword display rack

I wanted to put my bokken somewhere on the wall. I started looking at a BEKVÄM rack I already had on the wall and inspiration for a wall mounted sword display struck.

The rest was pretty easy, since I have a few unopened BEKVÄM spice racks.

Materials:
bekvam spice rack
  • BEKVÄM Spice Rack
  • Drill with wood drill bit
  • Hand Saw
  • 2 screws for the sides
  • Sandpaper
  • Some wood lacquer
  • 2 Screws and wall anchors

Wall mounted sword rack hack

So, this is pretty straight forward. Removed the front “stick”. Also removed the support hardware at the back.

I traced the shape of my bokken on one of the side pieces, cut and sanded pretty then copied to the other one.

Wall mounted sword display rack

Related: A BEKVÄM pipe rack

One of the screws was replaced by a shorter one (now, the top one, you can see the hole). The actual cutting could have been a lot neater, but I don’t have a router. But a lot of sanding did the trick.

Wall mounted sword display rack

Drilled 2 holes for the screws to fix to the wall, they just go through.
After some invisible lacquer, it’s just a matter of putting it to the wall like in the pictures.

So cheap and simple. I would think it will work with most swords, just adjusting the shape of the sides.

Wall mounted sword display rack

Taking into account that all was done with stuff that I always seem to have around the house, it was pretty cheap.

~ by João

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