Funk Babblings

Eleven months after I started, I've finally finished my CD/media shelf project. When I last mentioned it, the shelves were fastened together but the back wasn't there.

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Anyone remember my cedar shelving project from this past fall? The idea was that I really like my shelf unit that's currently holding duriyah's CDs, so I wanted to build another one, but taller and possibly with shelves spaced slightly closer together. So I bought two 6-foot and a bunch of 4-foot "cedar pickets" from Home Depot, carefully choosing the pieces, and discarding those that might be fine for a fence but were too rough or mangled for shelves.

Well, I didn't get much done on it back in fall, but in the past few weeks I've made some progress, first cutting to size, then sanding, and finally on this past sunny Sunday I managed to put most of the pieces together so it actually looks like shelves!

Of course, it's not really usable yet, which is why it's sitting in the garage. Next I need to put the plywood backing on, partly to horizontally stabilize it and partly to give each shelf more support. Then I'll put some narrower pieces on the bottom as feet. Oh yeah, and grind down a wayward screw peeking out from the bottom shelf.

After that it should be ready to put in the living room so I can finally get all my CDs out of boxes!

My car now smells like cedar inside.

This is because I have not yet unloaded it from shopping for my next project: a music/movie shelf unit. At some point in the past (probably raiding the garage to populate my first apartment) I acquired an extremely useful shelf unit that's perfect for CDs, movies, and small paperbacks, because the shelves are only about 6 inches deep and maybe 8-10 inches high; the whole thing is about 4 feet high. I decide I want more of these, so I'm going to try to build one myself.

So last night at Home Depot I bought a bunch of 6-inch wide cedar pickets, mostly 4 feet long but a couple of 6-footers too (let's see if we can make a tall one), plus some backing board (not sure about this one) and hardware. The total was about $40, including some things that'll last beyond this project.

I probably won't have time to work on this until October. But if this goes well I hope to make more, since I doubt that it'll be enough.