I think I have room to buy more books
Dec. 6th, 2012 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateNew camera card reader obtained! All the bookshelves built! Things!
Paperbacks, unit one of three in place. Made from cedar 1x6x8s.
Paperbacks, all units in place. 8 rows of 8" shelf intervals (including the shelf on one side) suitable for mass market sizing, followed by 3 of 9" for the slightly larger children's paperbacks and historical/academic texts.
With books! (this is before I brought the TBR pile upstairs; it takes up another 2-1/2 shelves or so) Grauwulf said, "wow, you have a lot of books." I say, "Look! there's enough space that I can get more!"
So, that happened a bit more than a month ago. This week I put in the hardbacks:
Different construction method, to do less with the table saw and the dado blade and more with the exact fitting to the length of wall. This... turned out to be a touch more complicated than it needed to be, as we made beautiful dado cuts, all lined up where I wanted them, and then discovered that the pine I'm using here was actually 3/4" thick instead of 5/8". Oops. So we broke out the router, and I trimmed down all the ends. So it goes. (also, please excuse the pile of laundry in the background...)
Anyway, 1x10x8s, 11" shelf interval. Supports screwed in from the top & held in place by gravity, which works better in some instances than others. A few of the wiggly supports are screwed in sideways from the bottom, and the top two shelves are waiting on gravity to drop them down far enough that the supports touch bottom. (sigh.) If I'd been doing this *right* I would probably have finished the boards as well, but I didn't. My father has a great talent for overbuilding things; I learned haphazardly, and so my woodworking projects are usually overthought and then some strange combination of overbuilt and more-or-less-good-enough. But I don't cut off my fingers with the table saw and these shelves aren't going anywhere, so I'm satisfied.
Yesterday morning, at which point I discovered that while I could lift and turn this all by myself, it does not slide across the carpet sideways. So the actual putting it into place didn't happen until there were two of us home to lift and carry it. Strangely, walking back and forth to to put clean sheets on the bed was more of a challenge than usual...
This evening, with the hardback (and trade paperback) fiction in place. Children's & older-style YA mostly separated out for ease of accessibility to waist-high persons. Of course, when we fill this up enough to need the top shelves, I'll need a step stool, too.
Paperbacks, unit one of three in place. Made from cedar 1x6x8s.
Paperbacks, all units in place. 8 rows of 8" shelf intervals (including the shelf on one side) suitable for mass market sizing, followed by 3 of 9" for the slightly larger children's paperbacks and historical/academic texts.
With books! (this is before I brought the TBR pile upstairs; it takes up another 2-1/2 shelves or so) Grauwulf said, "wow, you have a lot of books." I say, "Look! there's enough space that I can get more!"
So, that happened a bit more than a month ago. This week I put in the hardbacks:
Different construction method, to do less with the table saw and the dado blade and more with the exact fitting to the length of wall. This... turned out to be a touch more complicated than it needed to be, as we made beautiful dado cuts, all lined up where I wanted them, and then discovered that the pine I'm using here was actually 3/4" thick instead of 5/8". Oops. So we broke out the router, and I trimmed down all the ends. So it goes. (also, please excuse the pile of laundry in the background...)
Anyway, 1x10x8s, 11" shelf interval. Supports screwed in from the top & held in place by gravity, which works better in some instances than others. A few of the wiggly supports are screwed in sideways from the bottom, and the top two shelves are waiting on gravity to drop them down far enough that the supports touch bottom. (sigh.) If I'd been doing this *right* I would probably have finished the boards as well, but I didn't. My father has a great talent for overbuilding things; I learned haphazardly, and so my woodworking projects are usually overthought and then some strange combination of overbuilt and more-or-less-good-enough. But I don't cut off my fingers with the table saw and these shelves aren't going anywhere, so I'm satisfied.
Yesterday morning, at which point I discovered that while I could lift and turn this all by myself, it does not slide across the carpet sideways. So the actual putting it into place didn't happen until there were two of us home to lift and carry it. Strangely, walking back and forth to to put clean sheets on the bed was more of a challenge than usual...
This evening, with the hardback (and trade paperback) fiction in place. Children's & older-style YA mostly separated out for ease of accessibility to waist-high persons. Of course, when we fill this up enough to need the top shelves, I'll need a step stool, too.