These shelves came with the house
and they're kind of wobbly
and I didn't really want to bolt them to the walls
so I'm going to use parts of these shelves
to make something sturdier and a little bit deeper.
Shit.
Usable materials extracted.
I don't want to attach these with bolts like this
because that was just wobbly. So I was thinking a support
underneath, like this, and then I realized
if I put the support under here, cause there's a ledge here
like this, I can put a shelf on either side of it
plus I have plenty of width left to make the shelves wider.
Now I need to join these pieces into frames like this.
And for that I’m using double mortise and tenon joints.
I'm cutting the double mortise using my slot mortising machine
and the double tenon using a double tenon template
on my pantorouter.
I just cut 64 more mortises
plus the 60 mortises already cut in here.
Here's my double tenon template
and these two are 13/8" apart. And with a 2 to 1 reduction,
that results in 2/10ths or 13/16 of an inch apart in just
how I cut the mortises and these are 1/2" wide to reflect
the fact that I need 1/4 " wide tenons and using a 1" follower
and a 1/2" cutter bit and I drilled a hole in the middle
of this template so I can just stick a pin in here
so this bit is on there centered in this direction
and centered this way so I know my tenons are gonna
come out roughly centered.
That was a bit of a tight fit so I'm gonna back this follower
up a little bit which will make for a slightly smaller tenons
That's better.
Those double mortise and tenon joints have plenty of strength
against rocking.
So this is 23rds of one of these shelves which filled up
the remaining width here.
Well that shelf took a while to load up but now I'm
one small step closed to being organized.
I made a total of 5 of those ladders
and 2 of those made another shelf.