Comments on: Shelving Project

By: haya

haya — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:13:04 +0000

that is super awesome! makes me want to start building useful things.

By: Mike Purvis

Mike Purvis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:40:30 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I feel inspired to maybe try something a little more challenging… hmm…

By: Dad

Dad — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:27:57 +0000

It looks beautiful Michael. A very nice design. Thanks for posting the photos!

By: Mark P

Mark P — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:22:01 +0000

Great job! I like the design, epecially the bolts and big washers. Most manufacturers use wood plugs to hide all the fasteners, here it’s part of the look. Yeah I totally agree with the smell issue, we’ve bought and returned lots of pieces of furniture because the melamine (or even cheaper/nastier/more toxic urea formaldehyde) was too much to bear and impossible to remove. In the old days when they started using this crap, they at least finished all the exposed faces of the board with contact paper or veneer to kind of seal it in. Nowadays they finish the top, the front and if they are feeling exceptionally generous, the sides, but they leave the bottom and back unfinished.