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lp_harley
 Posts: 37 Location: Texas |
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My shelves cost me about $450 to build out of white pine, oak or mahogany doubles your price. |
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Bitter Almonds
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I like to think that by buying the ready-made stuff, I'm cutting on the spent hours of building. It's the time spent building stuff which I'm cutting down: I could either spend all day making a shelf, or I could spend it watching videos and reading books. Unless I was getting paid 50USD an hour to make a shelf, THEN I'd sit down and make a shelf
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The King of Harts
 Posts: 6712 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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Well, I was proven wrong. Yay for free wood!
That makes sense. I guess it was dumb of me to assume everybody wouldn't mind taking the time build a shelf like me. You're also right in that it does take a long time and a lot of energy to build and transport those suckers, time which could be spent doing more fun stuff. Although, there's nothing quite like the accomplishment of building and transporting a shelf and then setting your DVD's on it and then looking at the DVD's you worked hard to pay for sitting on the shelf you worked hard to build. It feels good. Really good. |
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larinon
 Posts: 992 Location: Midland, TX |
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You know, even if you buy a set of shelves, you typically still have to actually assemble the shelves yourself. There's no sawing or finishing or anything like that necessary, but you generally have to do a lot of the rest of the work that you'd otherwise have to in building it yourself. The shelves I had posted before that I had just assembled took me 1-2 hours each working alone. That's an estimation though, since I was watching game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs when I was working on them and it took longer than that. Things take a lot longer to do when you're constantly being distracted, it turns out. |
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lp_harley
Posts: 37 Location: Texas |
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I just like working with wood its a fun hobby for me. |
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Bitter Almonds
Posts: 57 |
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Alright, alright. The reason I don't make my own shelves is because they'll come out looking retarded
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7987 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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In order to fix that all you need are a level, a tape measure, and a shapie or pen to mark the wall. Maybe a stud finder too if the construction of you house or apartment was carried out by retarded chimpanzees like mine was.
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The King of Harts
Posts: 6712 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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I'll add that you need to be on level ground for the level to be effective if you're not building floaters. I found out the hard way that my garage wasn't as level as I believed it to be. Let's just say I ended up with a shelf that could stand in my garage, but would tip over in my room. |
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lp_harley
Posts: 37 Location: Texas |
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Kruszer
I strongly discourage using a sharpie they stain the wood deep unless you are going to paint them a dark color, use a sharp pencil and a good speed-square like a Swanson. King of Harts A garage floor should slope 1/8 to 1/4" per foot so things like gas fumes (which are heavier than air), fuel, water, etc. can exit the garage without building up. |
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Kimiko_0
 Posts: 1796 Location: Leiden, NL, EU |
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I promised to post a picture once my collection filled one shelf. Yes, I know that's puny compared to most collections here. It's still growing, okay?
Overview of my digital entertainment (click to enlarge): 
Close-up of my anime DVDs (click to enlarge): 
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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Well, it looks a little larger than mine: 
If you need any help in bumping up your collection, you might be interested in the Anime-On-Line special offers. They're all R2 UK products, but EU-to-EU shipping is tax free, and your currency is quite strong. |
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Kimiko_0
Posts: 1796 Location: Leiden, NL, EU |
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Thanks for the tip, Zin5ki. I've ordered a few titles from their special offers section
I hope MPlayer can decipher R2 DVDs. I have my computer's drive set to R1 because all my DVDs so far are from there. Otherwise I will only be able to watch them on my old TV (the DVD player is set to R0). |
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The King of Harts
Posts: 6712 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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I don't understand why they call it the Shinkai collection when they don't have, arguably, his best work in 5 cm/s. The man has 5 pieces of work (2 are extremely short) and they only put 2 in his "collection". |
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Kimiko_0
Posts: 1796 Location: Leiden, NL, EU |
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That's probably because when that collection was released (9-2007), 5 cm/s was still showing in theaters.
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Mistypearl
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Yay for Princess Ttut and Ghost Hunt  I rarely see anyone with the Ghost Hunt dvds on their shelves unless I've missed them
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