Waterfall bookshelf
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When I saw the title, I though how on earth do you get a waterfall table effect in a book case? Da! Nicely done. Something that nice, you ought to attach full images. What wood?
Beautiful end product! What are a couple of the lessons you learned along the way? Chuck
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What a beautiful bookshelf! Well done!
Care to share any of the construction plans / details?
Care to share any of the construction plans / details?
Nice design. What made it more difficult than you originally thought?
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The centerpiece of the "waterfall" requires a shifting of the angle from where it starts at the bottom to where it ends at the top to keep it balanced. I made the bottom square bigger than required to give it a little more weight and stability, but I think that may have made it pitch a bit too far; it's supposed to be a little more subtle. The other thing is that I put the shelves in the pattern before attached them to the back bracing piece, which made the process of attaching them to the brace a bit of a chore in terms of sanding and planing in order to get them to sit (mostly) flush. I wonder if it would be easier to mount each shelf individually to the brace as you proceed. Maybe so!
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I basically used this shelf as a model and made the box a bit larger on the bottom, extending the backing brace up by about five inches, and added legs.
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The shelves move a bit from left to right as they go up; it was mostly attaching them to the backbrace and then trying to make that angle work.
You took a cool design and made it better. The turned legs are a nice touch.
what joinery did you use for the upper shelves? Any stopped dadoes or dove tails?
what joinery did you use for the upper shelves? Any stopped dadoes or dove tails?
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Stopped dados, with a pair of 3/8 dowels driven in through the backing board where the wood catches the backbrace to get the things as stable as possible. I didn't expect my wife to break out a lot of hardcovers (I had actually hoped to use it for my movie collection), but it seems to be holding up well so far.