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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Operation 'Console Shelf' is a Go

Two posts ago I detailed the plan to construct a shelf type thing for my consoles. Since then I've made up a proper plan (coming to the conclusion that 7cm between shelves is ridiculous), brought the necessary supplies and started building. I was 1cm off at how long I wanted my wood to be, and found some that were nearly 2cm thick and even better at 24cm wide. From there I made this plan:

Probably should have used grid paper. 
I also changed the placement of the middle beams so the weight would be more equally distributed. Also 20cm in-between shelves is a lot more realistic than 7cm.
The building so far is still in it's infant stages, but so far I've marked the wood up and cut out the beams. I have three more cuts to go, which I should get done tomorrow. Hopefully me posting that here won't jinx me and I'll actually get it done.

Some pictures:

Feels weird posting a picture of outside on a gaming blog. I guess this is proof that it does indeed exist. 

All my manly tools. 
After I've cut all the wood I need to sand down the pieces so they're to size to the mil. From there I will drill the holes, actually assemble it and then apply the varnish. After that it will be done, and I'll have to find something else to blog about.

6 comments:

  1. Nice project mate! :)

    You wrote:

    "Feels weird posting a picture of outside on a gaming blog. I guess this is proof that it does indeed exist."

    Had to smile when reading that one. :D Hehe..

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  2. Thanks :D I should hopefully have the building done this week as I was waiting on a working sander but now I have one.

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  3. Dude,
    This article was posted on my birthday, which makes it extra cool.
    Awesome console shelf. Building your own stuff is the best.

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  4. I guess in honour of your birthday, I should actually finish the damn thing.

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  5. Dude, you're living the dream!

    Although I don't have a custom made console storage area, I do have ALL of my consoles out now and it really is a great to have them all staring at me ready to be used within a few minutes of wire fiddling.

    Good luck with this, I'm really interested to see how this turns out.

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  6. I agree, nothing beats the feeling of been able to access every single one of your games at anyone time - as well as how awesome it always looks.
    By the way, about the shelf. I'm about to write another post on it's progress (of sorts).

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