Bookcase

4/19/21, 12:42 AM #1

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Bookcase

Joe in a Cleveland suburb

Bookcase was completed & finished (in GA) and delivered this past week to my daughter and son-in-law.

Thanks for all the help WC provided on this build.

Up next. I don't know. I've always wanted to build a Shaker styled dresser or pie safe. Either of which my daughter said she would accept.

Done and delivered.

(The figured maple coffee table and the Shaker'ish looking next to the bookcase tray I made some years ago.)

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4/19/21, 1:00 AM #2

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Nice proportions. Great job.

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4/19/21, 2:03 AM #3

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Nicely done, Joe. I'm sure she loves it.

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4/19/21, 2:05 AM #4

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beautiful work you have created a family heirloom!

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4/19/21, 2:56 AM #5

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It looks grand, Joe. Congratulations on another fine looking piece.

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4/19/21, 2:58 AM #6

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Nice work

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4/19/21, 4:58 AM #7

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
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Very nicely done, Joe. That will be a keeper.

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4/19/21, 9:53 AM #8

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That is a very nice bookcase Joe. Good work.

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4/19/21, 10:56 AM #9

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Well Done, Joe

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4/19/21, 11:10 AM #10

Brad Chenoweth
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Nice!!!

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4/19/21, 11:36 AM #11

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Very nice. Well worth the effort. They will treasure it.

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4/19/21, 12:33 PM #12

Larry Clinton At Frankfort, (Central) Indiana
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Re: Nice work, Joe -Heirloom for sure

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I am 68 - be 69 in May 2010, have been retired about 4 years from Emerson Electric where I worked as a Engineer for about 40 years. Woodworking is my hobby, I refuse to do any woodworking for money as I am afraid it would become another job. I am very lucky to have a great woodworking shop. My son's and friends helped build it a couple years before I retired. It is a 30 X 30 shop with a 30 X 10 upstairs storage room, heated and air conditioned. I saved and purchased much of my equipment before I retired. I am busier now than when I worked, but seem to get little done :~>. I helped my son remodel his home, made all the woodwork from rough white oak, finished the vanity (from locust), lower kitchen cabinets (cherry) built cedar lined oak chest for my DIL, built a bathroom for my best friend and in process of building storage cabinets for SWMBO.

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4/19/21, 12:46 PM #13

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Nice job Joe, thanks for showing

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4/19/21, 1:08 PM #14

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Love it Joe. Something about the clean lines of proportion of (most) Shaker pieces that pleases the eye - this one certainly does.

Maybe you showed in the hinge thread, but do you have a close up of hinge placement? I seem to recall that you moved these farther in - correct?

Henry

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4/19/21, 2:11 PM #15

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Good proportiojns. "Golden rectangle" By design, or just happened?

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4/19/21, 3:10 PM #16

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Joe in a Cleveland suburb

Thank you Henry.

I did move the hinges in further and also a tad deeper mortise.

I used a trim router for the mortise so making a slight adjustment was easy.

I didn't take a picture directly of the hinges but the pic below, taken while I was finishing it up, kinda shows the hinges.

Thanks!

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4/19/21, 3:12 PM #17

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Joe in a Cleveland suburb

"Good proportiojns. "Golden rectangle" By design, or just happened?"

Thanks. But I can't take credit. This is a bookcase Christian Becksvoort made and was in a 1997 issue of FWW.

Thanks!

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4/19/21, 3:58 PM #18

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Beautiful Joe! With the hinges in that location you didn't find it necessary to back bevel the leading edge of the meeting stiles, true?

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4/19/21, 5:56 PM #19

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Joe in a Cleveland suburb

George, I had a hand plane with me and did put a slight bevel to the styles. I don't know really if I needed to though.

Thanks.

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4/19/21, 6:50 PM #20

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Hi Joe,

Very pleasing! And it will please more and more as the years go by.

Wiley

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4/20/21, 2:46 AM #21

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Joe, I've longed admired that bookcase design by Becksvoort in FWW but never got around to building it. I'm sure Christian would be proud of your build. Great job on the finishing. And thanks for posting your journey along the way. Jim

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4/20/21, 2:55 AM #22

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Great job, and thanks for posting the pics of your build.

This piece is on my bucket list to build, so now I am motivated.

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4/20/21, 3:30 PM #23

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looks great, Joe!

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4/20/21, 4:05 PM #24

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To be treasured for many generations I bet.

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