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Vertical Spine Shelves for Small Spaces

Saturday, July 6, 2013 8:53

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by Todd Walker

Do you live in cramped quarters?

There’s only x amount of horizontal surface in a house. Tables, counters, and shelving fill up quickly.

DRG’s solution – go vertical.

All these books once occupied the shelf pictured next to the vertical spine book shelf. DRG is happy.

I completed this simple honey-do yesterday and thought I’d share it with y’all.

I’ve only ever seen dimensional lumber used for the spine. Being unconventional and cheap, I opted to re-purpose a dead cedar tree.

The cedar log on the left became my spine

If you use a tree, make sure it’s not green. It needs to cure so the sap won’t make a mess out of your build. I purchased a 1×8 cedar board from a box store for the shelves. It cost around $8.

I trimmed the limbs off the cedar log and cut the end off as flush as possible. I had to tweak the angle to make the log stand vertical. Then I mounted the log with 3 inch screws to my base (made from the cedar board).

Now for the challenge of attaching the shelving boards to the log. I used a 5/8 inch router bit to cut the notches for the boards. The boards were 13/16 thick. After one pass with the router through the log, I carefully skimmed the cut to make the notch the need width.

I cut my shelves 9 inches and used a rubber mallet to tap them in place in the notches. I pre-drilled two holes through the log and into the boards. I attached them with two 3 inch screws. They weren’t perfectly level, but that’s what I get for using a log for the spine.