Here's a walnut and aluminum shelf unit I just completed for a friend. He had two solid walnut doors and two walnut-on-MDF shelves from a Room & Board armoire that he wanted to see employed, and asked me to look at a leaning shelf unit in their catalog. This is my interpretation of their offering. . .
Well. . .
I think it's *almost* strong enough to climb on . . . but the 1/16" wall aluminum, even filled with birch (to accept the wood screws that attach the shelves to it), is a bit flexible.
The bottom three shelves are MDF, so to reinforce them I inserted a walnut "beam."
The shelves vary from 13" deep to 9"; the unit is about 25" wide (the doors I had to use were 46," yielding two shelves just under 23" long). The overall height is 91 1/2". The clear-anodized aluminum tube is 1" square.
Good job! The walnut at the...
Good job! The walnut at the ends of the aluminium tubes are a particularly nice touch. And that you made this from some unused doors and shelves makes it even more impressive.
Is the model and the actual shelf different in the way they lean against the wall?
The model is very sweet too. Its style conjures up images of how a sleek minimalist alternative to Vitra's miniature model line up could look. I am also curious of how you made the shelves in the model?
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The unit as built has poles which lean at 4 1/2" degrees from the vertical, a bit less than in the model. Also, the model (made without scale, but almost exactly 1" = 1') has poles almost nine feet tall. As a result of these differences, the posts in the model touch the wall, while the built unit is fastened to the wall by a clip atop the last shelf.
The model is entirely of file-folder stock except the poles, which are some scrap poplar. The trickiest part of making the model was locating the shelves (which are just folded into shape) while gluing them to the posts. I made a device of card stock and wood, with slots for the shelves, which held them all at once while the posts were glued in place.
Thanks much.
I guess a row of two or three -- or more -- would be impressive.
It was a fun little project, and an interesting challenge because I don't have a proper shop to work in at present. A planer, jointer and drill press would have made this a bit easier ! My compound miter saw with a new blade, a decent borrowed table saw, and my trusty lightweight 3x21 belt sander saw me through. . .
Oh yes, and I rented a plate joiner -- what I shall always call a "Lamello machine," I suppose -- for a day.
It's a wonderful piece
full of nice details. The wooden ends on the aluminum uprights, the proportions, the grooves only half through the triangular sides etc. It's all well thought out. The one detail I liked the most is that contrary to the model you made the real uprights free from the wall.
...and that it is perfectly made.
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