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. …
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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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Using rope as a clamp for my shelving
I have the assembly all glued up. Now to clamp it. Normally half a dozen pipe clamps would be in order, but I don’t own a single one. (gift idea, wink wink, nudge nudge) So for my latest rope trick, I am going to make some shelf clamps. A bowline, a truckers hitch, and tie the …
Assembling one of my shelving upright.
The first cross piece gets fitted into the uprights. It works! Being that I am working on the ground and not on a workbench, that I am inexperienced with this type of woodworking, and so on, and so forth, my mortise and tenon cuts aren’t perfect. When fitting the cross pieces to the uprights, I …