Bonus Room Shelf Layout

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NO L-girders with risers here. This, I believe, is cheaper by far and the more useful choice for this layout. L-girder has it's place, granted, but in this case basic box frame and ply construction will suffice and be far simpler. At the risk of being labled a luddite, I even cut the lumber with a hand saw hock: but I did use a power drill for assembly.

Hi Galen;

Two comments - first, your hand cut timber is impressive! I can get a nice cut on occasion with a handsaw, but invariably, the dimension is wrong. If the dimension is right, the cut isn't straight. This is one of those things where repetition (i.e. practice) makes a big difference.

Second is more general. I used L-girder on parts of the layout that I recently disassembled (197 Track Nails thread), and really liked the flexibility. But it's a very deep system - even without risers, mine was about 7 inches deep; 1x4 girders, 1x2 (on side) for the L part of the girder and 1x3 joists on top of that. I'll be exploring a more compact system for the coming layout, and a grid like yours is one of the ideas I'm considering.

Matt