Bookshelves.

These two bookshelves were my very first Triton enabled project. They have simple mortised shelves, which is something few modern bookshelves do. I watched my young children attempt to climb up the shelves, I never worried about the shelves breaking. The mortice joints are failsafe and reassuring. The top shelf is mitred.

The dark brown shelf was my first Triton enabled project and is so simple that no further comments are justified.

The light brown shelf was made from secondhand wood. The boards came from a Japanese packing crate that contained aluminium sheets. The wood was delightfull, a beautiful allmost knot free finegrained softwood. What the blazes was it doing in a packing crate? A total waste. Probably this wood had been looted from Indonesia. It was rough sawn when I got it and used the hand plane to produce perfect boards. The boards I produced were not of uniform thickness and this posed some interesting construction problems. Each mortice had to be measured and cut for each particular board. I had not the art of the hidden mortice, as these were cut on the Triton in cross cut mode as at that time I did not possess a router.

One day these shelves will acquire castors and an offset front foot which should impede this kind of shelfs propensity to fall forward, which can be a hazard with young children climbing about.










This shelf is my first attempt to do hidden mortices, with the router. This shelf is attached with removeable clamps to the table it  rests on.