I'm making a set of shelves for our dining room. It's a race between me and 9+ month old Oscar. Will I finish them, or will he crawl first. The fate of all our breakable stuff lies in the balance. As of today, he's winning.
Update: He won. The shelves are about 50% finished, he's crawling at about 25% speed.
Here's what the shelf brackets look like:
Update: He won. The shelves are about 50% finished, he's crawling at about 25% speed.
Here's what the shelf brackets look like:
I'm securing them with carriage bolts, countersunk at the back with nuts.
The bottom ones are quite long, so I didn't want to just use a drill as I don't have a long enough one, and even if I did, getting it to run straight would be problematic.
So I made them out of 2 pieces glued together after cutting a slot in the middle with a 90deg grooving router bit.
This makes a lovely square hole which fits the head of the carriage bolt perfectly.
