This project work involves the construction of bookshelf for storing books with wood and nail.
The wood for the construction was seasoned wood that has preservation and without defect. It was first assembled. With finishes for good appearance. in the construction process, both mechanical and manual process was used to produce a suitable bookshelf.
The equipment and tools used in the construction include hammer for driving the nails, saws for cutting the woods, chisel and mallet for opening the joints used in the construction which includes dovetail joint on the drawers and between vertical and horizontal members of the shelves, terror joints, but joint at the top cover member of the shelf are box joint.
The bookshelf is made up of front, back, two side top and down with plywood, hard and soft wood with different dimensions as case may be with the capacity of 128books.
1.0 Introduction
A bookshelf or bookcase is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, use to store books. It is clear that as a furniture wood is the Chief construction material use in the construction of bookshelf even though glass is used in some case.
Bookshelf is mainly used for storing books in our homes, school libraries and offices and also used in storing other house hold equipments like compact Disc and plates, catteries and glass plates etc.
In the construction of bookshelf, precautions should be taken both on the materials for construction and when constructing to produce an efficient bookshelf and for long duration of the bookshelf.
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