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Re: Bookshelves

By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 13 Oct 24 4:06 AM | 13 view(s)
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Hey De,
Were those 8' boards two inches thick?

Books are HEAVY and I'm not too sure pegs will stand up to the strain.

I would suggest a 'router table' for slotting the verticals where the shelves go.

Something else my Daddy told me a long long time ago . . The back of a bookshelf is where a LOT of the strength comes from. Strength to keep the shelves from bowing.

Daddy helped me make some bookshelves probably near forty years ago . . .
The top three shelves are for paperbacks - eight inches tall. Besides the paperbacks there is an Analog Science Fiction from 1994 and they all fit nicely. The next shelf is ten inches tall and the bottom two are twelve inches tall. The three lower shelves are all a real 10" deep. (Custom cut at a place called Yukon Lumber. Mahogany.) The paperback shelves are all six inches deep.

I'm pretty sure I ran a row of nails down the length of each shelf through the back and into said shelf. And no sign of bowing in the boards.

Decomposed > The verticals will be bracketed onto every stud of two stretches of wall,

I thought wall studs ran vertically?

Out of curiosity, did you ever think about buying a LOT of 2" X 6" X 16' and running them horizontally bracketing those to every vertical stud?

Zim.




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Bookshelves
By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE
Sat, 12 Oct 24 6:51 AM 		Msg. 59331 of 59723

I'm finally getting started on my basement bookshelves. I don't work quickly so the project will take months. Or maybe a year. I don't know.

I bought twenty 8' boards which have been cut to 7' and angularly ripped, giving me 40 pieces that are almost 8" on one end and almost 4" on the other. The fat ends go on the floor. Those will be the vertical supports. The verticals will be bracketed onto every stud of two stretches of wall, the first getting twenty-two verticals and the second getting seventeen.

The horizontal shelves will be tightly spaced, just nine inches apart to accommodate pulp paperbacks no more than 8 ¼" tall. I can put slightly taller books (up to 10") on the floor beneath the lowest shelf. The shelves at the bottom will be deeper than the shelves at the top. I suppose that gives me the option of nesting books behind others, but I really don't want to do that and don't think I'll need to.

The project involves: 39 supports. 117 brackets. 1,332 shelf pegs, 333 shelves - if I counted right. I don't even want to think about how many peg holes I'll be drilling since I want the shelves to be adjustable even though initially they'll all be the same. And 2 gallons of paint, but that's only a guess.

I have a lot of books. These shelves are meant for the pulp SF, Fantasy, Mystery and Suspense novels or anthologies. I haven't checked the database in a long time, but I think they amount to around 7,500 books. I doubt I have the room, but I've also got 2,151 SF magazines - and, to look at them, they're essentially paperbacks too. Naturally, I've got some duplicates. That will lower the tally by a bit.

UPDATE. I've checked the database. Non-duplicate SF + Fantasy + Mystery + Suspense paperbacks come to 5,295 books. I previously measured 3,378 of the paperbacks. Their combined width came to 2,686 inches, giving me a .798" average. So my 5,295 books will need 353 linear feet. I'm putting in 490 linear feet, though some will be lost to the width of the supports. Don't laugh: It adds up to 53 linear feet! Some space will also be gained as I find that books I listed in the database as paperbacks are, in fact, too big to fit on the shelves. (I have another database category called "Oversized PB" that I should have used for these tall books. I'll correct them as I encounter them.)

The bottom line is that I think there will be enough shelving for both the books and the magazines.

I think.

I hope.

LOL, in the course of writing this post and editing it, and editing it again, and again, and again, it's racked up 36 views, all my doing. But then I'm figuring out portions of this project as I write the post, so you'll have to forgive me for that.

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