what supports the shelves??

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Please take a look at if you have the Thomas Moser catalog, it's the Windward bookcase.  Ican't figure out how the adjustable shelves are supported.  The resolutionof the web picture could be better, but I'll swear there there are no littleholes in the verticals for shelf supports.  The catalog picture has betterresolution but the crucial surfaces are shadowed.  Still, holes are reallyblack and generally very visible, and I don't see any.  So I think it'ssomething else, and it's damned invisible.

Tom · Accepted Answer

I'm betting that there are supports located in the corner verticals, probably on the blind side front, and forward or inward facing rear. Yeesh! $1,120.00 per section! Tom >"donald girod"wrote;

Someday, it'll all be over....

Dan · Answer

And is it just my old eyes and the perspective, or is that top shelf bowed just a teensy bit?Incidentally, the website is contained in frames. To quickly get to the windward bookcase, use this URL:

donald girod · Answer

It looked bowed to me, but this cannot be at $1120.  It must be an artifactof the camera.  Surely.

George · Answer

Pin in the upright, slot the diameter of the pin in the shelf? Sits down nice in my experience. Invisible, too.

Looks like 3/4 stock for 30" span. Maybe not ok for quarto size, though. Pretty heavy books.

Bay Area Dave · Answer

:) my old eyes think it's bowed too!daveDan wrote:

Tom Watson · Answer

Moser uses a hidden wire that is let into the side of the shelf and the points of the wire fit into very small holes that do not show up on the website graphic.

Regards, Tom Tom Watson - Woodworker Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania

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donald girod · Answer

Hey, great! Small holes would indeed not show. I'll have to think about how that might work--right now I'm not seeing where the strength would come from. In the catalog picture there looks to be some kind of dofunny on the bottom of the shelf, possibly locking the wire in? 10 gauge piano wire would probably do it. I'm going to be in Portsmouth later this month and I may just drive up to Freeport to get a firsthand look.

3/4" oak is ok for 30", but cherry is not as stiff, though the shelf is 13" deep, rather more than normal.

Tom Watson · Answer

OKH#4Regards, TomTom Watson - WoodworkerGulph Mills, Pennsylvania

donald girod · Answer

Ok, I got it--Lee Valley has them.  I was confused because you said "side"or "edge" of the shelf--really, it's the end of the shelf.

Silvan · Answer

My eyes are only 30-something, and still work just fine, thank you verymuch.  It's obviously bowed.  What a piece of crap.  $1,200???  Some peoplehave too much money.

what supports the shelves??

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