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04216 Re: Bookshelves
   And then comes the fun part - Sorting out all them books and putting t...
Zimbler0   GRITZ   18 Feb 2025
4:20 AM
04212 Re: Bookshelves
   well done De! That was a fairly large undertaking. Please take a...
micro   GRITZ   18 Feb 2025
2:47 AM

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Bookshelves

By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Tue, 18 Feb 25 2:01 AM
Msg. 04209 of 04563
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Here's my basement project in a nutshell. But there are no photos of the wood gathering, sawing, hole-drilling (the horizontals rest on removable pegs) or painting. Each of the horizontal pieces had to be custom measured and cut since the vertical supports are far from perfect - they aren't perfectly perpendicular to the wall, they weren't cut perfectly, and they have warps. They aren't even perfectly vertical! There are 180 horizontals in all.

I'm no woodworker (another way in which I'm low-IQ), so doing all this took me (and my wife who was invaluable to getting this done) a LONNNNNG time.

This is Wall #1 of two. The second will be slightly smaller - seventeen vertical supports instead of twenty-one. Now that I know what I'm doing, perhaps it will go a little faster.

Together, the two walls of shelving should hold around 8,000 books, nearly all of which are "pulp" paperbacks - up to 8.5 inches tall. The floor shelf has a couple of inches more room than the others and will be used for a few lucky big books.