Life Gleaners | Roll up your sleeves and create your own bookcase!

Aug 10, 2021

Life Gleaners series, recording my love for my children, my confession to my mother's dementia and my belated love, as well as the bits and pieces in my life worth recording... Today, I will share the epidemic situation at home, how to tap the nail box. …

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Roll up your sleeves and create your own bookcase!

I. Introduction:

Good day, my friend, I'm Brother Stone. I haven't written a pen for a long time. I'm busy with recruitment, projects, my mother is hospitalized, my father has surgery, and I can't go anywhere during the epidemic. Are you bored at home? I think it's suitable for you who can't be idle at this time. In addition to moving your hands, it also allows you to use your brain and think about how to make an overall plan with the least amount of materials.

2. My study I build:

Since the bookcases on the market all look the same, I just want to: I will build my study.

How to create your own industrial style bookcase?

1. Draw a PPT design composition:

Clear out a room, measure the wall, and start a simple PPT drawing.

First simply draw a size blueprint with ppt

2. Customized lacquered iron frame, as a bookcase skeleton:

At present, the most commonly used iron frame pipe diameter on the market is 18mm, you can find it from the iron factory you are familiar with.

3. Customized wooden boards, as book frames:

At present, the most beautiful and cheap board is the pine straight board. Its thickness ranges from 5mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm.... Of course, the thicker the price, the more expensive it is. However, it also has fatal injuries, that is, the texture is soft and easily deformed. When stapling that day, one piece was accidentally soaked in water, and the whole piece was bent and deformed, but it did not affect the work of stapling into a book frame.

Since 5mm, 8mm, and 10mm are mostly fixed sizes of 30x60cm in the wood line, and the wood line is cutting "each knife is 5 yuan", how to save money and cut has become the focus of my consideration.

3-1. Tool preparation:

A hammer, a pair of diagonal pliers (used for pulling nails), and a straight pine wood board.

3-2. Sheet purchase skills:

Since the four sides will bear the weight of books and accessories, at least 8mm plate should be selected. The back plate is to support the upper and lower plates and the left and right baffles to avoid deformation, so I choose the cheapest 5mm plate.

Of course, if your pocket is deep enough, I suggest you choose 10mm, 12mm will be better. For example: 5mm pine straight assembling board including cutting 27mmx30mm, 68 yuan for one piece; 5mm pine straight assembling board cutting 27mmx30mm, 83 yuan for one piece; therefore, the cost of a book box: 400 yuan + 0.35 yuan for copper nails.

3-3. Tips for buying copper nails:

If you buy an 8mm sheet like me, I recommend buying 5-point nails for copper nails (one point is equal to 3.175mm). If you buy 8-point copper nails, more than three of ten iron nails will break through the board. smile with you. A pack of copper nails costs 32 yuan, and two or three packs are enough.

3. Conclusion:

After a weekend afternoon, I was quite satisfied to see my finished product. Although the 8-point copper nails knocked through the board several times and left scars, it became much more beautiful after replacing the 5-point copper nails. After seeing my finished product, did your carpenter's soul ignite? Roll up your sleeves and create your very own bookcase!