I don’t like these as much. They hang on the wall. I do like the miters, however.
— Christopher Schwarz
9 thoughts on “A Second Set of Folding Shelves”
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I don’t like these as much. They hang on the wall. I do like the miters, however.
— Christopher Schwarz
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I think if I was campaigning and had books to bring with me, as well as the need for shelves for trophies and campaign nick-nacks ;-), I’d want a folding case that could house the books in transport, but open to a wall shelving configuration in camp. A sliding French cleat arrangement perhaps for wall mounting.
Less examples and more building of the earlier shelf. Times a wasting man. Now get an IPA and pick up a saw. Memo from the not so gentle nudge dept.
Ever see anything like this in your research:’http://video.wbgu.org/video/2335389001′(just watch the first 10 seconds.)
The hinge pins may themselves hold up under a load of books, but would their fasteners may be the weak link? In your folding tables, the load is distributed more and not borne by the hinges or their fasteners.
I’ve finally realized that Nature truly abhors a void, especially when it comes to horizontal surfaces in a book-lover’s home, even a temporary home. When I build for myself now, I design with an eye to moving again since I rent and making the item strong enough for stacks of books because that inevitably is what happens eventually.
I gotta say that I’m really liking your hand rendered drawings. Bravo!
Dear sir,
Stick a loose piece of paper underneath your drawing hand. It’ll prevent all those smudges. There’s also a fancy pants “smudgeguard” thing available, but I have no experience with it. One of those fancy blue gloves we wear for finishing would likely work as well.
Yours,
A lost drafting student.
Hah, just read the comments from the original drafting post. I’ll be quiet now. 😀 Keep it up! I like the drawings.
I see that the sides hinge inward when the shelves are removed, but I am very curious to learn if that metal in the top left corner is a hinge or acts as a brace for the top piece. I would have thought if it was a hinge, two would have been used like at the bottom. if a piece of metal bracing the top, it would have been more forward to resist stress. Guess I’ll have to wait for the book…
Something about both these shelf units has been bothering me for the last few days, and I think I have it figured out. The bottom set of hinges will rip the s*** out of any books that are placed next to them as there is no way that I can see to recess the hinges enough to get the knuckles out of the way and still have the side/shelf joint move and fold flat. It could be OK for storing shoe boxes or something similar, but no way would I be sliding my books over those exposed knuckles.
As for adding rigidity to the unit, it would be quite easy to add a vertical piece to the back of the top shelf, coming down under the shelf by the thickness of the space left by folding the middle hinges and above the shelf by an inch or so, just enough to stop books from being pushed off the back if it is set up away from a wall. Indeed the bottom shelf could have a similar arrangement sticking down, but you could not have enough sticking up top stop anything being pushed off the back edge.
The middle shelf/s have no restriction on what could be placed on the back edge both as a stop and a brace, other than the utility of flat packing, and even that can be avoided by using a sliding dovetail or similar connector to allow the back piece to be slid on and off when dismounted.