All Three Parts Are Up!
The basic structures of the built-in are complete and in place, so the next steps are about details, lots of details. Therefore, the posts will probably slow down to more of a trickle over the coming days. When
last we met, the first bookcase was up at long last.
Yesterday, the second one was assembled. I had already cut all the pieces, including the parts to box in the pipe that runs up the corner. I used my original, mis-cut base platform...
...to make the parts to surround the pipe in the corner (odd how they've always been exposed). To cut that big board down, I had to make a couple feather boards to keep thinks tight to the table saw top:
I know it sounds silly, but this is really the first time I've really needed to use feather boards - after all these years. Like said, I cut the pieces to box in the pipe, then came the complicated parts - assembling them.
That part was
not fun - at all! But it worked out just fine, and once I put the caps on the bookcases, very little of the pipe will show. Here's a closeup, so you can see what's behind there, and why the case is built the way it is.
Here's what it looks like now:
And a shot looking in from the living room:
No, they're not crooked, I'm just not a very good photographer. I think the next step is to drill the shelf holes. Maybe I'll do a short post about that!?
