{"id":155,"date":"2005-06-29T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/29\/bookcases"},"modified":"2005-06-29T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T11:13:00","slug":"bookcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/bookcases.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookcases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Franklin Jennings, noting my admiration for the Curley’s pantry<\/a> and my desire to build my own bookcases<\/a>, has graciously offered his advice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you have a drill, and a steady hand, adjustable shelves are the way to go.<\/p>\n

Cut two sides from 12″x1″ pine or other wood of your choice. Place a 1″x1″ cleat at the bottom of each, flush. Place same cleats at top, inset from the top by the actual width of your 12″x1″ (about 3\/4″, but measure your wood to be certain.<\/p>\n

Drill two series of holes down each side piece, to accommodate dowels which will support shelves.<\/p>\n

Assemble top and bottom to sides. Attach 1\/4″ plywood to back, which greatly stabilizes the box. Cut shelves and install with the dowels.<\/p>\n

You’re a smart guy. Examine an adjustable bookshelf at Wally-world and you’ll see exactly what I am describing.<\/p>\n

Good luck to you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you!<\/p>\n

What’s funny (and kind of sad) is that I am quite familiar with the Wally-world adjustable bookshelves, through long association with Sauder<\/a> furniture (as both a customer and as a former employee).<\/p>\n

The points that have been stumping me have been (a) how to do the corner joinery simply? and (b) is a fixed shelf in the middle necessary for stiffness? All of the units I’ve seen have at least one fixed shelf. But, they use 1\/8″ or thinner paperboard for the shelf backing, not 1\/4″ plywood as you recommend. So, the plywood adds sufficient stiffness to make a fixed shelf unneccessary?<\/p>\n

Not to mention the twin devils of (a) time!<\/span> and (b) my practical skill levels being more like Maclin Horton’s<\/a> than Will Hutton’s<\/a>.
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Mr. Franklin Jennings, noting my admiration for the Curley’s pantry and my desire to build my own bookcases, has graciously offered his advice: If you have a drill, and a steady hand, adjustable shelves are the way to go. Cut two sides from 12″x1″ pine or other wood of your choice. Place a 1″x1″ cleat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-2v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}