Freestanding Shelves

[CrazyLarry]

A pair of steamed beech freestanding shelf units.

Pretty simple really other than the requirement for no attachment to walls, ceiling or floor
capable of sufficient disassembly to transport and the shelves to be progressively shallower.

Naturally door frames, wall gaps and ceiling heights are variable pieces of string!
So width and depth is a bit of a compromise.

My solution was to make circular tenoned posts, with circular mortices in the shelves,
leaving the top sets loose and putting inserts and threaded rod between them and the
top fixed posts so that the top posts and top 'shelf' rise as the posts are rotated to
provide a small amount of adjustment. (about 6mm)

Natural satin poly X finish.

Apologies for the photos ... I'm no david bailey...

 

[mike_aa]

Brilliant solution and very nice work! 

If I understand correctly, tension between the floor and ceiling, achieved by rotating the threaded rods in the tenon, is what keeps them in place, correct?

Thanks for the inspiration.

Mike

 

[NL-mikkla]

Very cool, thanks

 

[CrazyLarry]

Yes exactly, the threaded rods are epoxied into the upper inserts (bottom of top posts). It works but there's not much room for error, LHS fitted together, adjusted, done! I was surprised how easily.

RHS however had just a few mm extra variation in the ceiling end to end which was enough to make it an entirely different proposition; adjusting, nudging adjusting, packing a little, adjusting again.

The difficult part I hadn't thought about before hand, is you can only adjust to a nearest 1/4 turn or it looks daft.

Brilliant solution and very nice work! 

If I understand correctly, tension between the floor and ceiling, achieved by rotating the threaded rods in the tenon, is what keeps them in place, correct?

Thanks for the inspiration.

Mike

 

[DB10]

Yep,  I like those, They will look even better when they are being utilised. What's the plan, To display Art work, models?

 

[CrazyLarry]

Yep,  I like those, They will look even better when they are being utilised. What's the plan, To display Art work, models?

I suspect a mix of books, magazines and ceramics, as he seems a bit of a collector of the later.

Doing a bathroom cabinet for him next so I'll get to see how they are being treated when I deliver that...

 

[Dane]

That's pretty great.  I'm thinking if you made the bottom self with a small gap between it and the floor, you could just provide the customer with a variety of heights of legs and then that unit could be used with any ceiling height.