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About 6 years ago while surfing eBay I stumbled upon a cool bookrack auction. It was a marked Gustav Stickley bookrack. I saved it to my favorites and watched it sell. It closed at $800.
Saving the pictures and dimensions from ebay for a later project, I sketched it in Autocad.
About 2 months later I made two of them and was very happy to sell one of them on eBay for $129 the following week.
This one has sat on a shelf in my office ever since.
Quartersawn white oak, mortice and tennon contruction, oak pegged made with adjustable slide made on the tablesaw.
-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever
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Max
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posted 817 days ago
Really like that Dan. Wouldn’t want to give up the dimensions would ya??? :>)
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oscorner
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posted 817 days ago
Looks heavy duty.
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Don
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posted 817 days ago
I like it, Dan.
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Thos. Angle
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posted 817 days ago
I see you’re up to your usual good work, Dan. I really like it .
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Bob #2
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posted 817 days ago
Did you fume it Dan or stain it?
Nice job BTW.
Bob
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Lee A. Jesberger
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posted 817 days ago
Hi Dan,
Interesting design, regarding the sliding dovetail extemsion of it. ( I’m guessing there dovetails).
Very nice work.
Lee
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dennis mitchell
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posted 817 days ago
Good stuff!
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mot
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posted 817 days ago
Wow! It looks robust! Nice!
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Napaman
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posted 817 days ago
very cool…too bad yours did not fetch the price of the original…because your craftsmanship is excellent…
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DAN
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posted 816 days ago
MAX
Dimensions of this bookrack:
ends are 7×7 inches
rack closed is 11 inches
fully extended is 18 inches
Bob
I stained it using dark oak anilyne dye and Minwax red mahoagny stain, followed by poly and garnet shellac.
Lee
It is not a sliding dovetail. It is dado and tennon construction. Trick to making it tight yet moving freely is the tennon is a easy slip fit in the dado and therails have a slight toe-in and toe-out to created a slight interferance fit. Did this by making spacing blocks for the ends of the rails when gluing up the tennons in the ends.
Thanks everyone for the positive feedback !! attached is a link to the auction will write more in my ebay blog.
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Gary
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posted 814 days ago
Dan,
That’s real nice workmanship. A little heavy for my personal taste, but clearly well crafted and nicely executed.
Gary
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Andy
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posted 788 days ago
Very nice Dan! That will last a lifetime.Thanks for sharing.
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missionworks
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posted 106 days ago
Very nice. Simple and functional. I may have to try one.
Thanks
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reggiek
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posted 106 days ago
Exquisite….very nice…and the finish is perfect….good luck on the auction….it should fetch a tidy sum…
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