Where the FUCK do I get some good shelving? I am surrounded by stacks of books
>>25273903Ikea
>>25273906lol, lmao even
>>25273903Just build your own shelf, or are you a woman? >stacks of booksNo one cares about your stack of 80 books
>>25273928Post your home made bookshelves, anon. Please. What type of wood do you prefer to use?
>>25273903You can find some good ones, six tier shelves with almost 30' width, on Amazon.Here's a very pretty one I am trying to save money for:https://a.co/d/0285IkTP
>>25273938Cherry wood looks nice. It's expensive though. Pine if you want something cheap. You can't go wrong with oak.
burn them for heat in winter.
>>25273938I use finger jointed birch or oak, the sort of stuff that is sold in thicker sizes as butcher block counter tops (picrel). They go on sale a couple times a year for ~$10 for 3/4x12x48"s (think they are actually 5/8" and 11 1/2" but don't recall) and I buy a bunch. Never saw the point in using proper boards for book cases, can't see the wood once they are filled with books so why bother with the expense? That anon you responded to probably hasn't made anything. Cherry is a great wood for bookcases, stiff (resistant to sag) and works great. Kiln dried oak works like ass, especially red oak, splintery and hates the hand plane, air dried works wonderfully but is hard to get and expensive. If you want to go the route of proper hardwood boards and save some money, it is best to look for a local hardwood seller and buy what is harvested regionally, it will be a fraction of the price of other options. Nothing wrong with pine but it is not all that cheaper unless you go with construction grade wood, which works but is not fun to work with and not the best for longevity in something like a bookcase unless you go thick. It can work, construction grade is sold on the wet side so let the boards sit for a month or so before working them so they can dry out more. If I were to use a higher grade softwood I would use fir, it is much nicer for working and about the same price as pine in the higher grades. But generally a local hardwood can be had for the same price as higher grade softwoods, I can get ash, birch, and poplar for the same or less than good clear pine/fir. Poplar is nice stuff to work but most don't like the look with all the weird colors it often has.
>>25274107My brother is building steps with poplar and looks fucking amazing>unless you go with construction grade woodSeems like everything at home depot and lowes is crooked these days. I can go through a whole stack and every single one is crooked. How the fuck is anyone building anything with that shit?
>>25274163I like the odd coloring of popular, but most don't and they stain or paint it. It can be tricky to stain a more colorful poplar since it has such a wide range of tones going from nearly white to dark purples and browns and then there are those greys which never play well with stains for some reason and make the stain look grey; works if you want a dark stain or select boards that are mostly colorless but that is not always possible. Stack and sticker it well and weight it flat so there is airflow around the boards, the extra wetness of construction grade works in your favor here, most will flatten out as it finishes drying. I use extra long and heavy boards as stickers and then loop rope around them, windless flat and let sit, at least that is what I did when all I could afford was construction grade pine/spruce/fir. All the twisting and cupping is just because they are stacked on the pallet while still fairly wet, no airflow except to the outside edges, not an issue for construction, since it is wet enough they can just force it and nail/screw and it will dry in that position.
>>25274196>All the twisting and cupping is just because they are stacked on the pallet while still fairly wetWhen i first started buying lumber a decade ago, this wasnt really the case. Did something change? I have been told it's because they harvest younger and younger lumber?Sometimes this shit is bent width-wise, if that makes sense which seems like it would be harder to get out.
>>25273903i got the ikea billy and threw a couple screws through the backing board into the shelves and it's holding up just finebuilding your own would obviously get you a better result but unless you already have a table or circular saw, the space to do the project, and a way to transport the wood it's not gonna be worth it. I did construction for years and still have all my tools but I live in a city apartment so I just bought some shit. Even just buying the rest of the materials probably costs more than the ikea shit
>>25274209Nothing has changed, it is just the effects of demand, when demand is low those pallets might sit for a month or two and dry out before they shipped out and opened, when demand is high they are stuck on the pallet and shipped out as soon as they come out of the kiln. A decade ago we were coming out of a recession, demand was low. Locality has a big effect as well, if lots of building is happening in your region it is more likely to be wetter, than times when there is not much construction. Age of the tree has little to do with it, still mostly an effect of the wood not being fully dried. Big old trees will produce wood that is more likely to have nice strait grain but that is not enough to insure drying nice and flat unless you make sure it is kept flat until dry, ends and the surface dry faster than the middle and it will bow and cup if left to it's own devices. Twist will be more common in younger trees but not massively so, trees actually twist as they grow they follow the sun. If you look at the bark in trees you can actually see the twist and how much it has is dependent on a great many things. The white cedar in these parts love to twist for what ever reason, they are just about cork screws as far as the grain goes. Some people like to simplify this just as they do with saying the reasons for poor wood these days is young trees, it still comes down to the drying and the tree itself, construction grade is not well dried and will move as it dries just like any other green wood.
>>25273940I don't get it. Aren't those cheap garbage shipped directly from china? The stuff people are complaining about all the time.Business address is literally:二七区金水源街道办事处柳江路与夏至路交叉口西北200米华侨城5号院5号楼1单元16层1602郑州市河南450000CNWere you trolling?
>>25274285>TwistStarted reading about this some more because after posting that I realized I did not actually know why trees twist. Apparently no one really knows, every explanation only works for some trees in some locations but not really and you can find trees of about the same age and species side by side, one is heavily twisted and the other is pretty much straight. Never knew how severely some trees twist, picrel.
>>25274295Ignore tripfags. When will you learn?
>>25274311Well do you know any other book shelf that's 30" in width and is less than 150$ (that is 6 tier)?
>>25274386fucking ccp shill, kys
>>25273903just buy a billy retard
>>25273903facebook marketplace or craiglist for cheap, pre-assembled, pre-loved shelving. if you live in a college town, check the dumpsters outside the dorms + student apts. they always throw away all kinds of furniture and if you get lucky you can score some good textbooks. if you don't live in a college town, wander around gas stations at night until you find one with milk crates piled up out back and just steal as many as you can fit in your car. for several years those were my only shelves
>>25275486craigslist and FB Marketplace are the only places to get sturdy, all wood shelves on the cheap. anything made of real wood these days is insanely expensive at a real store.
Not sure why everyone recommends billy. Cheap ikea metal shelf like Lerberg can hold heavy books just fine.
>>25273903digital is the way
>>25275510>anything made of real wood these days is insanely expensive at a real store.You can get ones OP pic sized for $400, which is not all that expensive considering it is pretty much a lifetime buy. Amazes me that people will get a $25k car loan and put $1K or $2k into it a year only to sell it it for a tiny fraction of their total invested, but considers spending $500-1000 on a book case that will last your life and never cost you another penny to be ridiculously over priced. I just used cheap pine boards and cinder blocks until I could afford something worth buying, which didn't take all that long.
>>25274234>i got the ikea billy and threw a couple screws through the backing board into the shelves and it's holding up just fineI have seven Billy cases and they're holding up just fine, no visible sagging and they're full of books to the brim.
>>25275722Because Billies look like actual bookshelves and not... this.
>>25275809Now, you’re just baiting.
>>25273903>Where the FUCK do I get some good shelving? I am surrounded by stacks of booksYou sell your books and get a library card.
>>25273908ikea is fine. have you tried buying furniture lately? because I have. it's a fucking nightmare. you can get 100 versions of whatever is trendy right now, and nothing else. at least ikea has some variety.
I found a really nice set of 3 cherry bookshelves on Craigslist a while back. Cost $500 and I had to get a box truck to load them into but it was well worth it, they’re beautiful and the shelves don’t sag at all despite being fully loaded up with books and records.
Ikea, Amazon or Kijiji. Maybe Goodwill or Value Village
>>25273903I got some floating wood shelves from a hardware store recently, was kind of expensive like everthing but it turned out alright. you can get whatever brackets you want if you go this way and get a nice aesthetic if you're goign for that. otherwise, you can do what other anons said and just go to a furniture store and buy some shelves. pretty much any shitty bookshelf is better looking than stacks on the floor
