When I am stressed or bored I like to make somethings for myself. It’s more like a way of releasing stress, or maybe a way of getting back my self-esteem by doing what I know I am good at.

This time I decided to make a coin rack.

Since I have been using a money clip instead of a wallet, I take coins out of my pockets every night. So after a while I have quite a large collection of them. I used to put them in cups, but that’s messy, so today I want to sort them out.

Wasted 6 pairs of disposible chopsticks (sacrificed a tree branch for art)  and some wires bought from ArtFriend, with a plier as the only tool, it’s done in less than an hour.

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Back of the rack, two triangles are built to make the structure more rigid. I only used left-over materials so the upper triangle is small.

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Coin rack in use. The gaps on the rack are adjusted to fit the different coin sizes.

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You like it? Not for sale!