Oak Bookcases

[MooreToolsPlease]

Evening all,
I have just today finished installing the latest job to come out of the workshop.
It's a pair of book cases, and a pair of dresser type units.
I got this work by chance, as the customer just strolled into the workshop one day.
They have had shelves made before and have complained of them sagging under the weight of them.
With this in mind all of the shelves are torsion boxes. a skin of 6mm veneered mdf with a substrate of 15mm hardwood.
I bought a vacuum press to bond the skins to the substrate and it worked wonders.
All of the edges are lipped with solid oak, but at 45 degrees.
This is so that the join of the solid to mdf falls on the corner, and is almost invisible.

The 2 dresser units still have to be pushed back to the wall. they cant be at the moment as there is lights in the alcoves.
The top of the units extends beyond the unit and I have mounted 2 lights there. As soon as the electrician has visited I will post some more pictures

 

[ByronBlack]

lovely work matt - they look flippin' marvelous!

 

[DomValente]

Very nice Matt, lovely finish.

Dom

 

[Paul Chapman]

Very nice work, Matt.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Stunning just stunning, awful lot of work there I bet, just how long did it all take?

 

[mailee]

Now they are really nice Matt. Is it just the shelves that are MDF with Oak finishing or all of it?

 

[MooreToolsPlease]

I squeezed it in between another 3 jobs, so the actual time is very hard to say, but it was somewhere around 40 hours I imagine
It's all veneered MDF, the only exceptions are the doors which are solid, and the cornice.
This was adapted from a kitchen cornice so that it sits flush with the bottom instead of sitting ontop.

 

[CNC Paul]

Hi Matt


That is a very nice job !!!

I bet the brass shelf strips were a pain



Paul

 

[engineer one]

nice clean work matt, and the frame and panel doors look nice. 8)
what are the panels??

what is going to go in the corner between the bookshelves and the cabinets?? at the moment it looks very "busy" but would like to see
the shot after the leccy has been and they are pushed back.

paul :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Nice job. They look plenty strong enough and very stylish.

I don't usually like moldings, but they kook just right.

 

[motownmartin]

Lovely work Matt =D> =D> =D>

 

[Lark]

nice... look great bet was that that cheap to make all that

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Matt

They are excellent and I really like them. I was thrown by the light from the alcove, until I read further down your post. :lol:

You mention that the edges are lipped with solid oak at 45 degrees. Do you have a close-up of this?

Cheers,
Neil

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Lark

Welcome to the forum.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[MooreToolsPlease]

Well, all of the lights are wired in now so I thought I would post another couple of pics.
Enjoy!

here is a close up of the shelf lipping detail, sorry its so dark

 

[cambournepete]

Matt,

As others have said they're really nice.

With this in mind all of the shelves are torsion boxes. a skin of 6mm veneered mdf with a substrate of 15mm hardwood.

Do you have any plans of the shelf construction?
I need to build a tall shelf unit for approx 2000 LPs, so I need strong shelves...

 

[Bean]

Matt I think they are great.

 

[Chris Knight]

Matt,
It's a lovely job. I'd be proud to have that in my home.

The top and bottom "veneering" of the shelf with the lipping looks quite thick - what did you use?

 

[Lukey]

Is the board veneered just to save on cost?

If so, is it worth the cost saving for the amount of work to create the veneer?

 

[MooreToolsPlease]

the shelves are made from 6mm oak veneered mdf, 15mm hardwood, 6mm oak veneered mdf.
the shelves are made that way for strength.
They cost a lot more than just a 26mm oak veneered mdf shelf.
In an american magazine they recently done an article on torsion boxes.
The author made a piece 2ft square, 6mm mdf, 12mm ply torsion box, 6mm mdf.
He then put it on some blocks, on the edges and put 100kgs+ on it and it didn't move