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Made entirely from 1x2 pine. Ripped into thirds for the shelf slats. Pocket holes. Glue. Brads and glue for the shelf slats.
This is the way.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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It may be 30$ more expensive but DAMN does it look nice!
looks lovley. I would not want to have to water all those tiny pots thought.
We take them off and soak in the sink or a bin. Succulents need infrequent but deep watering. I watered them once or twice the entire winter last year.
That's where the next DIY project becomes building a drip-watering system into the plant rack :-)
Looks great. Also, I can tell that you don't have cats living there.
Damn that's good
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Newb here, I've just finished reading The Essential Woodworker and I'm starting to get into this hobby.
How do those shelves support so much weight?
From what I've been reading it sounds like you need to be very cautious of your joints (at least Essential Woodworker writes that way, based on that I'd have expected you need a tennon through the whole way), but with support on 3 sides those exterior shelves appear to be supporting a lot of weight no problem. Is there somewhere I can learn more about this?
I wish I could give you an academic answer, but I was going off of a similar design and thought if it works there, it should work here.
Honestly I'm a bit worried about the corners, but they feel stable enough.
I used pocket screws and wood glue at each shelf attachment to the frame. The shelf slats are all glued edge grain to edge grain, so in theory the entire shelf should act like a solid board.
I googled and found this post where they tested a similar setup and it failed at 99lbs at 15cm, which looks way way less than the weights you have (plus you’ve got support on two sides, so only like 50% of the load has less support).
I guess the lesson is that the mortise and tenon is very strong, but pocket screws can support a lot of weight too and that’s good enough!
Every shelve is a square supported on 3 corners. The weight in the "free" triangle holds because of the opposite corner.
I hope I explain it clear enough.
That makes sense, I’m still trying to understand which joint and why
Money and time well spent!
That plant stand is excellent, and also that room is a lovely shade of gray in both the daylight and night. Great job all together
similar to several my mom had that were made out of hockey sticks.
My uncle made me a similar looking plant stand about 5 years ago. Even though it took more to make it yourself, it will definitely last a lot longer.
Holy shit nice work dude!!
Well, if you live outside the US, the shipping costs of the shelf from Amazon might have made this cheaper, even if the pricetag says otherwise.
Would you please.make a video tutorial ?