With 16 inch deep shelves, I can put a lot of books on my shelves. Here I have books 3 layers deep. I have the ones I haven’t read up front, and the ones I have read in back. With no sides on the shelving, I can do neat things like put books in sideways and …
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Unbreakable Spiked Caster Cups
I bought a package of these unbreakable spiked caster cups that won’t crush rugs or carpets to go under my shelves. I knew that I am putting a lot of weight down onto a small area of surface area and it would take forever to knock the divits out of the carpet. I had to cut …
Bookcase with shelves installed.
Front view of the book case with all the shelves installed. It is pretty sturdy. I can grab the top shelf and pick myself off the ground. I think that a small child or a cat could climb this shelf without risk of it falling over it is so deep. It wants to wiggle though. …
Final Assembly of shelving.
Attaching the hinges to the frames. I attached them with the frame opened up so I have a better chance of getting them straight. I put the hinges on just below the height of the shelves so they would be less visible. Cool, eh? It folds up for easy transport. I can flop this on my roof …
Cutting the 2nd set of tenons on my table saw.
OK, so I got lazy. I wasn’t happy with the depth not being quite right with my tenons when I did them by hand. I have this new table saw sitting right inside my front door, I just as well use it, right? I cut the tenons using the miter guage and the rip fence. The …
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