Greetings, All. Back in about 2006 I built a set of bookshelves in my apartment (see pictures), I think from plans I found on this web site, but I can’t find them now. The uprights are MDF, and the adjustable shelves are MDF faced with poplar. The baseboards and facings are all poplar. I’ve moved and want to build similar shelves in my new place, but I can’t find the plans. I really liked those shelves, and finding the old plans would save me a lot of calculating. Anybody recognize them?
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Plans? There aren't any plans for something like that. They are custom, built in place to fit a very specific location. The old shelves couldn't possibly fit your new location. So, I'm not sure what you're looking for?
What John_C2 said.
These are very simple in principle, but the techniques can be quite challenging if it has been a while.
I would suggest google - this was an easy hit, which shows one way of doing it. If you watch 4 or 5 of them then you will doubtless be able to combine the techniques you want to use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhw2fZBibpk
OTTOMH the specific skills you need are:
Cutting furniture grade MDF or Ply (hard to avoid chipout)
Dado cutting
Edge banding
Everything else is just basic screwing stuff to the wall, which you obviously know how to do.
@ John_C2: Thanks, but I had a set of published plans from some magazine--I thought this one. I adapted them to the space. I'd like to find them again.
@ Rob_SS: Thanks, but Google turns up thousands and thousands of hits, and I don't have but one lifetime. I was hoping this thread would ring a bell with somebody else who read the same article back then. Obviously, this is a fairly simple project (no dadoes or edge-banding, BTW). I'm just trying to save myself some trouble.
Try this:
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2003/05/01/a-bookcase-that-breaks-the-rules
Search "built in bookcase" on the FHB site for more.
Jim_Crutchfield,
Is this article from 2008 what you were looking for?
"How to Build a Bookcase: Step-by-Step Woodworking Plans"
https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/how-to/a3346/4268525/
The shelf pictured on that site looks similar to the one you attached to your post.
@old_wood_guy: it's very similar, though not quite the one. Thanks! It'll probably give me enough to work from. Mine were MDF instead of plywood, but the basic design looks like what I built back then. Thanks again!
@_MJ_: Thanks. I'll give it a try.
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