After the tox box, my next storage solution for Benny was a place to store all his books.  I made this bookshelf out of the Brazilian Cherry. 

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I wasn't sure what size the books were that Benny would be putting on the shelves, so I thought I'd make the shelves adjustable.  That came with a problem because, to save wood and weight, I wasn't making the sides or back solid.  The back was not solid so the books could slide off.  My solution to this was to put a back on the shelf itself.

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Now that shelves were adjustable, but it might be nice if they could tip in slightly to keep the books neatly at the back of the shelf.  Along with this, I also had to consider that 3-year-old boys like to climb so I needed to make sure that the shelves wouldn't pull out as he climbed on them.  I attached the back of the shelf so that it extended down about 3/4" so that it went behind the support dowel in back and could not be removed without first lifting the back.

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The adjustable shelves I make use vertical row of 1/4" holes near the front edge of the sides and a matching row of holes near the back of the sides.  The holes are about 1/4" deep.  They're designed to hold a metal dowel 3/4" long. 

 

Because I put a support under the front of the shelf and the back extended down below the level of the bottom of the shelf, I had to account for the distance between these two pieces when I drilled the support holes.  This distance is the long side of a triangle when level, but it's the hypotenuse of the triangle when tipped down one hole.  Without getting carried away with the math, the center of the rows of holes would have to be about 5/16" (1/4" for the dowel thickness and 1/16" to account for the tip) closer together than the distance between the front shelf support and the back down extension.  I tell you all this because I was quite pleased that I managed to drill all the holes without having to do it all over again.

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When I first started building furniture, I didn't sign it.  Nancy suggested that I should so I scratched my name onto a relatively hidden section of the build.  A few years ago, I bought an inexpensive CNC router.  I didn't really do much with it except lettering.  It was pretty good for that purpose.  I started to add an engraving to each piece describing who it was for, the year, and my initials.​​​