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Custom Built-in Bookshelf Unit
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" Now on these shelves were made purposely a little bit smaller so that we'd have to left over space at either end. For -- right that's right because most walls not -- in this one isn't how much is it out it's out that part of an inch an inch and five rates in the bottom. And an instance and it's on pot and so what do you do well where -- at that. -- put the material right up against the law and secure the bottom. And what we want to do. We have two and three quarters of an inch of waste we're gonna be taking off. Violence we want to set the top. Insane if it's chaos. Tap that into place -- Then and now out comes the carpenter's favorite tool it's in this bribe. 99 cent in -- restaurant which kids in school would call a compass and how to use it here we'll set this. The distance -- of the waste on the back right -- as a -- requires an -- just take it. And run it along side of the law making sure that it's level. Make sure that you keep that point right against -- the edge of the law. And that is how you can if you cut line. All right hey this isn't straight enough situation that we can probably cut it on the table all right. Yes that that -- kind of -- you do -- the same -- up against the stone -- or brick wall with private company that -- that that's right. All right while we run us through the table -- We're going to show you how these shelves were made back in the workshop. We're making the bookshelves out of this beautiful birch plywood the back. Two side pieces and of course the top piece will all be joined together with -- edges and you can make. But lengths. On the table saw and the shorter widths on the radial arm -- OK now we'll join. The sides and the top. -- a little bit carpenter's glue always helps. And we using drywall screws put it all together. And of course it also helps to have a little pilot hole already drilled. Where it's coming together -- All right we'll flip it over. So that we can attach the back it. And first let's put some glue on that Rabbet. And then we simply use. Four penny finish nails that's right now. All of them. It's coming here. Baghdad. Now the main thing that we want to accomplish with the bookshelf is to have adjustable shelves until we created a story -- for ourselves with a strip of plywood. Now these holes are two and a half inches apart and then the piece of wood itself is two inches and two and a half inches. And so that what we but it arm against the back -- against the front all these pilot holes are gonna be so uniformly spaced. -- we're just setting I've dealt with an all. Well. How are you want it. -- put tape on the drill bit so it will only going to happen and it. And that's that's plenty of room for the shelf brackets. Okay see -- these little things are gonna fit in here. Not bad that's what makes them adjustable shelves OK let's do the other side OK. -- looks good right not going to do the same thing on the other side and we'll put a crown across the top meantime I've been putting some of our shelves in place. Which is the beauty of having all this variety of holes that you can put him anywhere."