Bookshelves.
These two bookshelves were my very first Triton enabled project. They
have simple mortised shelves, which is something few modern bookshelves
do. I watched my young children attempt to climb up the shelves, I
never worried about the shelves breaking. The mortice joints are
failsafe and reassuring. The top shelf is mitred.
The dark brown shelf was my first Triton enabled project and is so
simple that no further comments are justified.
The light brown shelf was made from secondhand wood. The boards came
from a Japanese packing crate that contained aluminium sheets. The wood
was delightfull, a beautiful allmost knot free finegrained softwood.
What the blazes was it doing in a packing crate? A total waste.
Probably this wood had been looted from Indonesia. It was rough sawn
when I got it and used the hand plane to produce perfect boards. The
boards I produced were not of uniform thickness and this posed some
interesting construction problems. Each mortice had to be measured and
cut for each particular board. I had not the art of the hidden mortice,
as these were cut on the Triton in cross cut mode as at that time I did
not possess a router.
One day these shelves will acquire castors and an offset front foot
which should impede this kind of shelfs propensity to fall forward,
which can be a hazard with young children climbing about.
This shelf is my first attempt to do hidden mortices, with the router.
This shelf is attached with removeable clamps to the table it
rests on.