If you’ve got an area you’d like to fill with shelving, this looks like a great solution — if you don’t mind the industrial look. And the brilliant part is that it takes almost no craftsmanship skill to make — just measure, decide on shelf sizes, then take a trip to the local hardware store.
Useful if you have a lot of heavy books, like me. The $30 Craigslist bookshelf I’ve got now seems to be working fine, but I can see those shelves sagging under the weight of my leather-bounds (books used to be a lot heavier, apparently). Probably a good intro to basic home crafts for the kids, too.
The one pictured is by Robert Gutmann, and you can check out the process and other pictures at his Flickr page.
Isn’t it ironic how he uses steel piping, yet uses glass shelves?
No. No it isn’t.
PVC + Plexiglass = Cheaper/lighter solution. Plexiglass doesn’t break as easy as glass either.
Books? I laugh at your face! All the in-crowd people have a Kindle and go and read at Starbucks so everyone cans see how damn ‘in’ they are! After all, thats crowd that Kindle appeals to.
This is breaking news in the tech world!??!?!?!?!?
Man, I’ve been doing this since 1984.
Two points:
1) His design is stupid. There’s no pipe as cross pieces (at least in the front) and the shelves will be subject to torquing and failing with any real weight.
2) Josh: two words: Plastic Bends. You need at least 3/4in plexi to get anywhere near the same strength as 1/4in glass and any weight will cause the plexi to bend… a lot. Plexi is pretty expensive too… price a 4×8 sheet of 3/4in plexi.
Really wanderful!..but,Dangerous Book for be less if..