I’ll throw out some stand ideas, but I’ll start with the post.
Some people are concerned about the angle the head sits at on the stand. An optional support post to hold it up might make those people happy. I’m not really bothered, but I might use it anyway.
If you do that, either a Y shaped holder going into another hole in line with the post hole or a curved or angled arm coming out from the same hole as the post could work (in the latter case by having a screw coming out of the bottom and a hole drilled out of the top for the post to screw into like this):
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Obviously it should probably go out more so you could fit the handle and your hand between the two like picking up an old phone. This might also make battery chassis users feel a little safer with it if it was mountable there too.
Here are some comments on what you already have laid out though:
1. The cutout in the back seems less useful and more of a burn risk to me, so I’d probably prefer it in the front.
Since there’s room, I’d also make sure there’s at least a little room between the head (which could be all down one side if you went with the idea above) and the tools next to it. On the existing stand, depending on where you put the post it can be very close to tools or even prevent holes from being used.
Instead of just moving it to the front you could make 3 cutouts and just make the holes for bowls and tools in removable strips that went into those cutouts in any configuration you wanted.
If you do that, I’d consider making them a little higher or lower than the rest of the tray (with soft edges if higher) and maybe out of a different wood because I think it could look better than a single wood with the right combination.
2. I’d want more bowl holes for sure. I have a PanHead, a ShovelHead, a 14mm Stubby (which doesn’t have a good home but could probably sit in a 14mm glass bowl holder), and a 14mm glass bowl. I’ll probably pick up a couple more too, and not having enough places to put them in the current stand is a big reason that I’m interested in this new one.
One way to make things fit would be to put in the PanHead/ShovelHead cutout on each one with an 18mm or 14mm hole in each so any hole could work with PH/SH or glass or other bowls. You could even put a 14mm hole inside an 18mm hole and make them fairly universal, but the bowls would sit at a little different heights. That would probably be fine though.
Whether or not that part works for you, if you went with modular inserts you could consider making them 1/2 length so people with a few bowls could take up less space and people with more could double up.
3. That debowler is fine, but since I don’t dump mine daily I’d be more interested in something enclosed that would reduce the smell.
One design I’ve seen that I like is a box with a tapered round hole in the top mostly filled with a sphere (or dome). AVB dropped on the sphere falls between it and the box and into a removable container or just the body of the box, but the opening is thin (or even closeable) so it’s neater and hopefully the smell is more contained.
For the FP I do like having the spike, so either a small spike could be put on top of the ball or the existing one could be put through the ball with enough sticking out to be usable.
This one may be more complicated than you want, but ultimately I’ll probably get something that I can close or at least easily dump without dismantling the stand and maybe I’ll just put the grinder there or find another use for it.
I’m sure I’ll come up with some more ideas for the stand, but I need to wrap this up for tonight anyway!
Beyond the stand I was also going to suggest little ends or extensions for tool handles to keep them from being just threads at the end (hopefully they’d fit in the new stand), and one of the first things I tried to do when I ordered the ShowerHead was to work on a design for a cage around it like someone suggested on the last page. I don’t feel the need for it so much today, but I’d probably still use one to make sure other people and animals who are less familiar with it were safer around it.
Thanks for working with us on this again
@NewVape710 , I hope we come up with an even better stand than the current one!
