BOOKSHELF

PROJECT DETAILS:

The bookshelf was a simple project similar to letter box. It was for books but can also be multi-purpose to contain toys, dolls, show piece items.

MATERIALS:

• Plywood            - 6 x 4 sheet, 18 mm thickness
• Plywood            - 6 x 4 sheet, 3 mm thickness
• Laminate sheets - 8 x 4 sheet, 0.8 mm thickness (choose color of interest)
• Sand paper - 180 and 120 grit
• Fevicol white wood glue - 500 mg
• Fevicol sythetic rubber (SR) - 500 mg
• Wooden reaper/band - 1 inch thickness (length need to calculate from plan)
• Nails - headless type and regular type (1+ inch long)
• Screws - 2 inch long (20 pieces approx.)
• Paper sticking tape

TOOLS:

• Round saw machine with wood cutting blade 
• Big hand file for smoothing cutting laminate
• Laminate cutting sharp knife
• G - Clamps - 4 no.s
• Hammer
• Screwdriver
  

CONSTRUCTION:

• Cut the 12" plywood sheet to the specifications given in plan below:

• Cut the 3 mm sheet to a rectangle of size (30 inch + 24 mm) width x 28 inch height
• Laminate both sides of the cut plywood pieces. The regular technique of fevicol white + SR application does the trick.
• Drill 2 holes in pieces D and E measuring 12 inches from the top and 1 inch from either sides.
• Next, lay the pieces on a flat surface and horizontally align pieces A,B and C in between D and E. Simply screw the sections D and E now through the holes we drilled in previous step.
•  This will take form of the bookshelf now and the final part is to nail the back panel of 3 mm plywood to close the backside. Fix the 3 mm back panel using headless nails.
• Next apply reapers across edges of plywood with fevicol white. Hammer a few headless nails to hold in place. Reapers come in various designs as well, so choose as per your taste. I chose a rounded surface design.
• Sand the reaper with sand paper and then paint or polish it to look good. Or just varnish it to get long life.
• Thats it ! bookshelf is ready

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