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Re: Bookshelves

By: micro in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 18 Feb 25 2:47 AM | 14 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 04212 of 04563
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well done De! That was a fairly large undertaking.

Please take a photo when ya has those shelves with lots of books on them?
Congrats on the fine organization and carpentry skills!
I am not as ambitious as you so my book shelves consist of the Library shelf size ones in bookcases I purchased.

I do not have a basement due to the high water table from the natural spring toward the rear end of my back yard.

Hopefully ya has a decent Table Saw with large table supports ?

Looking good so far De! Can't wait to see the conclusion of it! Thumbs Up




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Bookshelves
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Tue, 18 Feb 25 2:01 AM 		Msg. 04209 of 04563

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.

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