This Tool Makes Adjustable Shelving Simple

This occupies an interesting space for me. I enjoy optimizing processes, and building tools and jigs. But I have gotten away from professional carpentry sort of for the reason that it took the fun out of it if that was what I was thinking about. This is a very slick cutter. Really amazing what we can do with 3D modeling and CNC now. So many possibilities.

Those are really cool. Simple, easy, and look great!

Simply amazing. Great job sir. A quick question what steel did you use to make the cutting blade? Tool. What is the steel type that you use to machine your tool?

Nicely designed too.👍

That cutter is beautiful !

Very impressive. Nice to see good old fashoned shelf support being used. I'd like to buy the cutter but I only have an old Dewalt 125 radial arm saw.

this is miles ahead of using those pins... well done!

fantastic process... very well thought out designed and built...nice

So, your mechanism of doing adjustable shelves is identical to what they used to do at least a hundred years ago, because we’ve got antique Art Nouveau furniture with the same kind of angled slots cut into strips.

Except you’ve got much better tools, and this process is probably a lot easier for you.

did you think about a dovetail bit in a router at an angle? probably less that 400 for the router and the bit and whatever jigging. nice result either way

Dude, this is the best adjustable shelf system I've seen yet. Wow man. Keep up the great work!

Your system is nice, but calling shelf-pins "really hard to get out" is a bit of a stretch. Done properly they take no special tools and are trivial to adjust.

Very cool design. How often does the average homeowner adjust the height of their shelves though? Never. I would use this concept in my shop, but most people never move the shelves in their kitchen

Why does triangle slots work better than easier to cut square slots?

This is a neat idea and makes changing the height of shelves much easier, but I don't really like the look of it

Absolutely brilliant!!!

If you had a matching piece for the notches fitted on a hinge in the sacrificial block you could make repeatable cuts by using it as a stop. The shape means the workpiece could move left easily and then a slight nudge left to get snug against the stop for each and you make it less stressful to align all but the first one or two notches.

Dangerous as hell. Too heavy. Need holes to keep weight down. No way this thing stops in a safe amount of time.

That cutter is a work of art!!! I would be happy to have one to simply hang it on my shop wall as decoration. 🙂

Amazing attention to detail!

I found the industrial saws interesting. One like a radial arm saw on a massive scale, the other a band saw in the scale of a table saw. And of course the system was fascinating. Thanks!

Why not have the shelfs fit into the grooves?? cheers.

This a giant version of the old Fly Cutter, an under rated tool in the machine shop. No other tooling leaves a smoother finishing surface like this one does. In steel, aluminum or any other material.

Before i understood the final system i was upset, since the way you measured the spaces between grooves was bound to create compounding errors. That was accounted for by making all four strips out of the same board, so the errors would match up and disappear.

Well made 10 out of 10.

Very clever! Only a matter of time before we’re 3D printing saw blades

If you cut a rabbet into the bottom of the short end of the shelves, it would pin the support rails to the sides.

I have a tool that makes adjustable shelving easy, too. I call it a drill.

I would make some 1-2 mm rebate under the shelf to prevent stick from falling out.

Smart good youb

I’m in , I’ll take one.

Cool idea, amazing build and the installations looks so clean! I'd personally be frightened by it, since there is no way this thing will stop in case of any accident, but with one of the most dangerous saws I'm sure you're really careful^^
Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently it seems like the adjustable pieces could theoretically fall out towards the middle. I have two ideas to improve this, you could either add a notch on both sides of the boards, so the adjustable wood pieces are being secured insides the notches by the board's themselves or try angling the cuts (and adjustable pieces) towards the sides, so they work similar to french cleats.

I love how British people call it Timber. I just watched the whole restoration of the yacht Tally Ho and that took a lot of timber. Timber Timbre Timbah

To labor intensive

I love that...

A hint: create a groove on the end of the shelv so it also locks your supporters in when the shelv is in place.

eyeball indexing... good luck getting two the same

A square cutout would've made this much easier and not required the special cutter. I get that a lot of woodworking is just complicating things for the fun of it, but for a shelf this seems excessive

You should add a small lip to the bottom of the shelf so those shelf holders can’t come out unless the shelf is removed. This way the shelf itself keeps the ledge in place.

nice

uuuuuuuuhhhhh. bad design dude.

hi mate, that is incredible, what a way to solve a problem. I have used a similar machine with no spindle lock, the 2 flat spots on the threaded bar is for a second spanner to hold the arbour still while you undo the nut, give that a try. love your videos mate, keep them coming 😊

A great modification of the French Cleat system.
Love it and that beautiful cutter!

I thought my 1960s craftsman radial arm saw was scary. I am terrified of that machine.

I think you should cut those in pairs or even all together. You only need to be a fraction out and you will get what's called an accumulation of error. The error wont matter if they are all the same.

Nice.
And if you add strips to the underside of the shelf you can even lock those in.
I really like the system.

I've bought the shelf strips literally off the shelf in France from diy centres, admittedly not as beautiful as yours though!