Waste of time, though. You could have gone out and bought that bookcase for what, 7 maybe 8 thousand dollars. :D

He's got a lot of tools, but there's only a few that get used all the time:

Router
straight edged chisel
drill (a drill press is nice, and occasionally necessary)
tablesaw
Lots and lots of clamps. Those red-orange clamps with the plastic pads are great. Home depot has them.
workbench
a very sharp plane

And if you want choices when buying wood, a planer is a necessity.

For the amount I spent on materials, I could have gotten about twice the shelfspace from Ikea...

Nifty! I'm a Master Dwellar now!

HA! The stuff you can find on the market, isn't worthy of holding your tools. What you (and Dad) have built, vs commercially available bookshelves, is like comparing Moon/Mars Rover to a beach buggy.
Now you've got to have some kids because you've created an heirloom.:)

Indeed.

Also, I can't stand shopping for furniture. All of mine is either handmade or handed down.

Wow, it's really encouraging to see someone still makes their own funiture and that someone makes *quality* furniture. I know from experience there is great satisfation to be found bth working with wood and making things yourself. Sadly for now I can't own anything that doesn't fit in a suitcase. C'est la vie.

That's great, I tried to get into woodworking but I don't have the patience. I like to screw up and then fix my mistakes, doesn't work so well with wood.

No worries! If you make a mistake, just cut off the mistake, and make it smaller!



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no, I didn't make these

The middle foot has a bar going back, which the base rests on. The end of the bar is in a groove in the back of the foot. The groove was cut with a tablesaw and cleaned out with a chisel.

The bar is solidly in the groove, and attached with three pieces of hardware designed for chairs. These are much stronger than normal angle irons, due to the 3D shaping - not that it's a joint that needs to be that strong, but I had the pieces from a previous project.

Long time no post. I'll start off with a picture of the piece all together, face down in the work area. It just fits, with inches to spare.

I spent a day sanding all of the pieces down with an orbital sander, and following up with some extremely high grit sandpaper.

Next was to drill the holes for the shelf pegs. I have this nifty jig I got from rockler.com that goes with this nifty drill bit, which goes with some nifty brass inserts that the shelf supports fit in. :)

Well, partway through, the drill ran out of juice, so I went on to the next step. These blocks will be used to attach the feet to the bottom. If you look closely, you can see that the grain on each block goes in the same direction as the grain on the board. Otherwise, the glue would not bond properly. The excess glue was scraped off with a chisel once it partially dried.

I never heard that one, HM. Now I'm going to be up all night trying to figure out why that would be true.:)