Dachshund-Shaped CD Holder

This holder gets its whole personality from one silhouette — a long, low dachshund body that happens to be exactly the right shape to hold a stack of CDs between its legs. The novelty shape is the entire design; the actual support mechanism is just two bent metal brackets.

The brackets are cut from sheet metal flashing, not wood — a wooden support piece thick enough to hold the CD stack's weight would be visually clunky against the dog's thin legs, where thin bent metal disappears into the silhouette.

A 1in-grid printed pattern is what gets a design this specific onto the wood accurately — freehand-sketching a recognizable dog silhouette at this small a scale is a lot harder than tracing a grid-transferred template.