A few years back, there was an article in one of the woodworking magazines that I get that really got a good grip on me .
It was a book shelf made to resemble a wood clamp, the kind that you use to squeeze the glue out of a joint ( no, not the smok'n kind! ).
After reading the article, I just had to make one! The shelf was fun to make so I made several more for Christmas gifts.
The nice thing about this shelf is its all made from scraps from other projects.
That was in "97".
Yesterday, my wife was rearranging the living room for this years Christmas decor and uncovered the buried shelf that I had kept for myself. I didn't have any pictures of the shelf for my picture album so I took a couple today and thought some would enjoy seeing it.
(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/Bai%20Book%20Clamp%20o.jpg)
The woods used were black walnut, butternut, cherry, Maple, and red oak. All sawn and dried by me.
Here is another view with some long forgotten texts :D :D.
(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/Bai%20Book%20Clamp%202%20o.jpg)
This view is a closeup of the screw.
(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/Bai%20Book%20Clamp%20closeup%20o.jpg)
Thanks for looking :).
How'd you make that screw, Brian?
Very nice. :)
8) I likkke it.... ;)
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Hey Tom,
That's an ancient chinese secret :D, but this link will show you an easier way. Just be careful if you get the kit because you could get all screwed up and tapped out :D :D :D!
http://www.bealltool.com/threader.htm
Now dat's nice. Do you by chance still have the plan?
Chet,
The article was in Fine WoodWorking or American Woodworker mag. I can't remember which one nor can I remember the year, but it was on or before 97 because that's the year I put on the bottom of the shelf.
Tomorrow, I'll get my back copies out and see if I can find it for you.
8) thats cool, ya guys make neat stuff, all I could show is a 2x4 that I bent a nail over in, Duane 8)
Thanks Brian :)
Brian, Don'T be stingy with them plans ::) ;D ;D
That's one neat shelf. I could trade ya a little Percky for some pre made parts for a couple of them shelves ;D ;) :D :D
Very nice Brian, I especially like your choice of woods.
Course you know your making the reast of us...well some of us, ok ok me look bad. All these years I had Patty convinced that popsickle sticks were the best wood to use.
That's pretty kool, Brian. 8)
EZ
nice job 8) 8)
That is awesome. Thanks for sharing
Hey Norm,
How do you know that the wood in the pictures aren't really just popsickle sticks that have been digitally altered to look like what's in the pictures :D :D ? ;)
The article with plans was in the American Woodworker Mag. # 64 Feb. 1998 issue. If your interested in getting the plans you'll have to order them from the below link.
http://www.rd.com/americanwoodworker/articles/adindex/main.html
It is listed under, bookends - bar clamp, 64:68, 64:69
ordering info is at the bottom of that page.
Unbelievable, I have been looking for that magazine for the last few months, for that very same project. I started getting AWW in 97 and that project was in one of the first issues I got. Have always wanted to build it and was trying get around to it now. Thanks for posting it.
Hey LSU! Congrats to your team for making it to the big game. Got yer tickets yet? ;D 8) 8) 8)
LSUNo1, Your welcome and you'll enjoy making it.
It's projects like these that make it hard for me to toss scraps into the woodburner. Unless, they have a bent nail in them :), which at times is quite often. :D
very nice Brian 8) 8) 8)
DanG, no tickets yet, but I'm working on it! Course if they are gonna cost what I've heard they're gonna cost :o, I think I might just put the money toward a downpayment on a new WoodMizer instead.
Very nicely done, Brian. 8) 8) 8) 8) I tooo have trouble keeping a nail straight when trying to put it into a pice of wood. :-/ So, I got a nail gun and I still bend them suckers. I also like your choice of woods. Variety makes for some interesting constrasts.
Sweeeeeeet!
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Brian,
Very interesting design. Beautifully done. Thanks for the look.
Gus
Brian, it amazes me at the number of talented people around here. Mostly I have to rearange when I'm hunting a tool or something I misplaced and mostly I find it sometimes later when I'm rearrangeing to hunt something else! (does that make any sense?}
Nope, not really. ;D
thought so :)
cktate,
I hear you, I enjoy working with wood but I am really envious of the many many folks here that fabricate their own equipment and such.
I might be handy with a chisel or saw, but, just don't get me near a welder or cutting torch :D :D :D.
If I could get back all the time I have spent looking for some misplaced item, I'd be a wealthy man now, believe me ;).
Brian,
That's really nice. And, like the segmented bowls a few weeks ago, I wish I could/would take the time to make such beautiful stuff. I really like items made from a variety of wood.
Since I'm too lazy to build them myself, :D do you (or anybody here) sell such crafts? Christmas is coming so I'll be thinking about gifts in two or three weeks. :o
Den
In another life I worked in a steel fabrication plant. Right up until it closed down. Worked my way up from hooking chains for a cherry picker to running a overhead Crane, to fitters helper (tack welding and cutting) to fitter in less than three years. I enjoy working with steel and wood too, but I'm better with steel. I have two mig's, and a big lincoln ac dc stick welder, cutting torches, chop saws, metal cutting band saw, and a whole bunch of odd and end pieces of steel, including a lot of heavy stainless steel plate. A lot of this I bought a few years ago from a welding shop that went out of business. I can build something out of steel, and make it look like it came from a factory. One of these days I'm a going to weld me up a mill of some kind as soon as I acculimate enough information to do so. My great great granddaddy was a blacksmith. One of my grandfathers was a retired logger, and one of my grandfathers was a carpenter and farmer. I have been extremely lucky to have known and learned from these people. They were never much more than being poor, but everything they did they took pride in. I owe my heritage, and my success at building a successful business more than a lot to these people. And I miss them. I wish they were around today to see all the improvements in machinery and methods that have been made in the last 20 or so years. As I said, they were poor folks, but it never seemed to bother them much. Now one thing, do not mistake me for a saint. I've been fired from about every job I ever had, at one time or another. I was always good at the work, but just couldn't ever get the hang of politicking that had to go on when I was working for someone else. Kind of an opinionated old cuss, yeah that's me. If somebody thought I was wrong I usually wouldn't sway over unless they could prove it to me. I've become MUCH better at listening and understanding others in the last few years. But I still don't think I'd be good at working for somebody else. With them, yes, for them, as in a real job in the same place every day, no.
Den,
I really wish I could help you out, but I don't have anything to offer. I mostly do custom orders and I'm booked up well into next year.
I know (panic-panic) the 25th is almost upon us.
Come on someone step up to the plate and help Den out :) :)
Brian,
Thanks anyway, It's good to hear you have no problem selling your fine work.
As for the 25th, I find myself in the same boat every year. :) I can't see buying the "gifts" that the stores line up (junk). There's not a whole lot that friends or family really need. It's hard to come up with anything special but I haven't been dis-owned yet! ;)
Den